Rhinocolobus
Rhinocolobus is an extinct genus of monkey closely related to modern colobus monkeys. It lived in eastern Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene, existing as recently as 1.5 million years ago.
| Rhinocolobus Temporal range: Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Subfamily: | Colobinae |
| Genus: | †Rhinocolobus Leakey, 1982 |
| Species: | †R. turkanaensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey, 1982 | |
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