Trachypithecus cristatus
The silvery lutung, also known as the silvered leaf monkey or the silvery langur, is an Old World monkey. It is arboreal, living in coastal, mangrove, and riverine forests in Sumatra, Borneo, Java, as well as in parts of the southwestern Malay Peninsula, the Natuna Islands, and other nearby islands. It is the type species of its species group.

Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- silvery lutungPBDB
- Sits inside
- TrachypithecusPBDB
- 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.
5 occurrences of Trachypithecus cristatus 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene98%
- Holocene2%
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 cristatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Trachypithecus cristatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Macaca fascicularis3 sites
- Amyda cartilaginea1 site
- Batagur affinis1 site
- Batagur baska1 site
- Bos (Bibos)1 site
- Bubalus palaeokerabau1 site
- Carettochelys niahensis1 site
- Cervus lydekkeri1 site
- Chitra chitra1 site
- Crocodylus siamensis1 site
- Duboisia santeng1 site
- Gavialis bengawanicus1 site
- Homo erectus1 site
- Hylobates moloch1 site
- Hystrix1 site
- Macaca nemestrina1 site
- Mececyon trinilensis1 site
- Muntiacus muntjak1 site
- Panthera tigris1 site
- Presbytis1 site
- Prionailurus bengalensis1 site
- Rhinoceros sondaicus1 site
- Stegodon trigonocephalus1 site
- Sus brachygnathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Trachypithecus cristatus, 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
3 references- Quaternary langurs and macaques from the Malay Archipelago3
- 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 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Trachypithecus cristatus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Trachypithecus cristatus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTrachypithecus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raffles 1821)