Cercopithecoidea

Cercopithecoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CatarrhiniPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 878 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 87 of 878 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 230 of 878 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 524 of 878 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 12 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 14 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 44 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 56 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 108 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 282 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 116 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 188 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

878 occurrences of Cercopithecoidea 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

878 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

63 formations

Shungura — 5.14°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.05°N, 36.03°EShungura — 5.15°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 — 3.87°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 3.92°N, 36.45°EKoobi Fora — 4.24°N, 36.37°EKoobi Fora — 4.06°N, 36.33°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 — 3.78°N, 36.33°EKoobi Fora — 3.59°N, 36.24°EVogel River Series — 3.19°S, 35.21°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 — 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°EKromdraai — 26.00°S, 27.75°EMaboko — 0.15°S, 34.60°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°ESwartkrans — 26.02°S, 27.72°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°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°EOlduvai — 2.99°S, 35.35°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 34.32°EOlduvai — 2.98°S, 35.37°EAdu-Asa — 10.32°N, 40.25°EAdu-Asa — 10.43°N, 40.42°EOlorgesailie — 1.58°S, 36.43°EKanapoi — 2.37°N, 36.08°EKanapoi — 2.32°N, 36.07°EChemeron — 0.67°N, 35.83°EChemeron — 0.75°N, 35.88°ESterkfontein — 26.02°S, 27.73°EKapthurin — 0.50°N, 36.00°EMakapansgat — 24.20°S, 28.95°EUSNO — 5.35°N, 36.17°EHadar — 11.13°N, 40.59°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°EChiwondo — 10.00°S, 33.92°ENawata or Nachukui — 2.90°N, 36.05°EMatabaietu — 10.55°N, 40.58°E

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The named rock units Cercopithecoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 273 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cercopithecoidea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cercopithecoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

802 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 531 sites for Cercopithecoidea, 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

260 references

Each of the 878 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. 248 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 Cercopithecoidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Gray 1821