Papionini

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Papionini
Temporal range: Pliocene to present
Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cercopithecidae
Subfamily: Cercopithecinae
Tribe: Papionini
Burnett, 1828
Type genus
Papio
Erxleben, 1777
Genera

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Papionini is a tribe of Old World monkeys that includes several large monkey species, which include the macaques of North Africa and Asia, as well as the baboons, geladas, mangabeys, kipunji, drills, and mandrills, which are essentially from sub-Saharan Africa (although some baboons also occur in southern Arabia).[1] It is typically divided into two subtribes: Macacina for the genus Macaca and its extinct relatives and the Papionina for all other genera.[2][3]

Evolution and fossil record

Papionin fossils are extensively known from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of East Africa.[4]

Classification

References

  1. ↑ Fleagle, John G. (2013). Primate adaptation and evolution (3rd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-378632-6. OCLC 820107187.
  2. ↑ Szalay, Frederick S.; Delson, Eric (1979). Evolutionary history of the primates. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-680150-9. OCLC 5008038.
  3. ↑ Strasser, Elizabeth; Delson, Eric (1987). "Cladistic analysis of cercopithecid relationships". Journal of Human Evolution. 16 (1): 81–99. Bibcode:1987JHumE..16...81S. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(87)90061-3.
  4. ↑ Wang, Xue; Meyer, Marc R.; Williams, Scott A. (May 2025). "Re-evaluating Omo 105-7, a provisional hominin last lumbar vertebra from the Lower Omo Basin (Plio-Pleistocene) of Ethiopia". Journal of Human Evolution. 202 103676. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103676. Retrieved 30 September 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.