Cercopithecinae

The Cercopithecinae are a subfamily of the Old World monkeys, which comprises roughly 71 species, including the baboons, the macaques, and the vervet monkeys. Most cercopithecine monkeys are limited to sub-Saharan Africa, although the macaques range from the far eastern parts of Asia through northern Africa, as well as on Gibraltar.

Cercopithecinae

Malene Thyssen · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CercopithecidaePBDB
Diet
frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Cercopithecidae
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Cercopithecidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 7.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 488 occurrencesMiocene — about 15 of 488 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 113 of 488 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 329 of 488 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 19 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 24 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 37 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 76 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 127 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 61 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 128 occurrences7.246 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

488 occurrences of Cercopithecinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

488 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

39 formations

Shungura — 5.09°N, 36.02°EShungura — 5.02°N, 36.04°EShungura — 5.09°N, 36.06°EKoobi Fora — 3.90°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.98°N, 36.32°EKoobi Fora — 3.86°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.07°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.77°N, 36.39°EKoobi Fora — 4.26°N, 36.28°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.26°EKoobi Fora — 4.29°N, 36.23°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EKoobi Fora — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.92°N, 36.45°EKoobi Fora — 4.18°N, 36.42°ENachukui — 4.25°N, 35.79°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.72°ENachukui — 4.11°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 4.15°N, 35.74°ENachukui — 4.17°N, 35.77°ENachukui — 4.05°N, 35.73°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EVogel River Series — 3.23°S, 35.22°EVogel River Series — 3.01°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.25°S, 35.20°EVogel River Series — 3.13°S, 35.13°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EWehaietu — 10.73°N, 40.42°EWehaietu — 10.90°N, 40.48°EWehaietu — 10.72°N, 40.50°EWehaietu — 10.57°N, 40.58°EWehaietu — 10.63°N, 40.54°ESagantole — 10.48°N, 40.60°ESagantole — 10.62°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.63°N, 40.54°ESagantole — 10.45°N, 40.45°ESagantole — 10.47°N, 40.50°EOlorgesailie — 1.58°S, 36.43°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.33°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 10.00°S, 33.92°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°EChemeron — 0.75°N, 35.88°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EChemoigut — 0.65°N, 36.20°EFejej — 5.00°N, 37.00°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°E

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The named rock units Cercopithecinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 188 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cercopithecinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cercopithecinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

806 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 385 sites for Cercopithecinae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

195 references

Each of the 488 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 183 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cercopithecinae

Credit
Malene Thyssen
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cercopithecinae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.