Parapapio

Parapapio is a genus of prehistoric baboons closely resembling the forest-dwelling mangabeys. Parapapio is distinguished from other Papio by the lack of an anteorbital drop, thin browridges, absence of maxillary fossae or a sagittal crest and only slight sexual dimorphism.

Parapapio

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PapioninaPBDB
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 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 5 of 57 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 41 of 57 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 57 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 57 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.3–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–809 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.333 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya0 Mya

57 occurrences of Parapapio on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

57 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

17 formations

Vogel 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°ENachukui — 3.08°N, 35.83°ENachukui — 3.90°N, 35.71°ENachukui — 3.87°N, 35.76°ENachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°ESagantole — 10.62°N, 40.58°ESagantole — 10.63°N, 40.54°ESagantole — 10.52°N, 40.47°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°ENawata — 2.90°N, 36.05°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°ELothagam 1 — 2.88°N, 36.07°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°E

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The named rock units Parapapio has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parapapio and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Parapapio and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

565 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Parapapio, and this reads all 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

25 references

Each of the 57 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. 13 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 content2

Picture of Parapapio

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
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Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Parapapio broomi · dnmnh:sts:414B

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itPapionina through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jones 1937