Paracolobus

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Paracolobus
Paracolobus chemeroni
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Paracolobus

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

  1. ^ 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