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Genus of Old World monkeys From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theropithecus is a genus of primates in the family Cercopithecidae. It contains a single living species, the gelada (Theropithecus gelada), native to the Ethiopian Highlands.
Theropithecus Temporal range: Pliocene-Recent | |
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Male gelada | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cercopithecidae |
Subfamily: | Cercopithecinae |
Tribe: | Papionini |
Genus: | Theropithecus I. Geoffroy, 1843 |
Type species | |
Theropithecus gelada (Rüppell, 1835) | |
Species | |
See text |
Additional species are known from fossils, including:
The earliest remains probably belonging to the genus are from Kanapoi, Kenya, dating to the early Pliocene, around 4.1-4.2 million years ago.[2]
A!though most remains are known from Africa,[2] during the Early Pleistocene the genus had a broader distribution ranging from southern Europe, including Spain[4] and possibly Italy,[5] to the Indian subcontinent.[6]
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