Paracolobus
| Paracolobus | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Paracolobus chemeroni | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Paracolobus R.E.F. Leakey, 1969 |
Paracolobus is an extinct genus of primate in the Colobini tribe, which also contains the living colobus monkeys. It lived in eastern Africa in the early to late Pliocene.[1]
References
- ↑ McKenna and Bell, 1997, p. 344
Literature cited
- McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
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