Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus is a genus of Old World monkeys containing species known as lutungs, langurs, or leaf monkeys. Their range is much of Southeast Asia.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- lutungPBDB
- Sits inside
- ColobinaePBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, folivorePBDB, for Cercopithecidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Cercopithecidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Trachypithecus 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
12 occurrences- Pleistocene99%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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.
Trachypithecus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Trachypithecus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Hystrix4 sites
- Hylobatidae3 sites
- Macaca fascicularis3 sites
- Macaca mulatta3 sites
- Panthera tigris3 sites
- Rhinoceros sinensis3 sites
- Stegodon insignis3 sites
- Sus scrofa3 sites
- Tapirus (Megatapirus) augustus3 sites
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca2 sites
- Arctonyx collaris2 sites
- Bubalus2 sites
- Capricornis sumatraensis2 sites
- Cervus unicolor2 sites
- Crocuta crocuta2 sites
- Cuon2 sites
- Herpestes urva2 sites
- Hipposideros2 sites
- Lutra lutra2 sites
- Macaca2 sites
- Macaca assamensis2 sites
- Macaca thibetana2 sites
- Muntiacus muntjak2 sites
- Muntiacus reevesi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Trachypithecus, 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
6 references- Pleistocene fossil Primates from Luoding, Guangdong5
- Quaternary langurs and macaques from the Malay Archipelago3
- Summary of Vertebrate and Molluscan Assemblages Excavated from Late-Pleistocene and Holocene Deposits at Khao Toh Chong Rockshelter, Krabi, Thailand1
- Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China1
- The Late Neogene elephantoid-bearing faunas of Indonesia and their palaeozoogeographic implications. A study of the terrestrial faunal succession of Sulawesi, Flores and Java, including evidence for early hominid dispersal east of Wallace's Line1
- Prehistoric bone: The gibbons and monkeys of Niah Great Cave1
Each of the 12 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. 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 Trachypithecus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Bilby
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Trachypithecus cristatus · FMNH:Mammals:68696
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itColobinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reichenbach 1862