Paracolobus

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Kingdom Animalia Family Cercopithecidae Rank Genus		Class Mammalia Phylum Chordata Order Primate

Similar Primate, Parapapio, Victoriapithecus, Theropithecus oswaldi, Tremacebus

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.

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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Paracolobus Wikipedia

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