Microcolobus

Microcolobus
Temporal range: Late Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Subfamily: Colobinae
Genus: †Microcolobus
Benefit & Pickford, 1986
Species:
†M. tugenensis
Binomial name
†Microcolobus tugenensis
Benefit & Pickford, 1986

Microcolobus is an extinct genus of Old World monkey that lived in eastern Africa during the Late Miocene and is regarded as the first known member of the Colobinae.

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