''Theropithecus'' is a genus of primates in the family

Cercopithecidae Old World monkey is the common English name for a family of primates known taxonomically as the Cercopithecidae (). Twenty-four genera and 138 species are recognized, making it the largest primate family. Old World monkey genera include baboons ...

. It contains a single living species, the gelada (''Theropithecus gelada''), native to the Ethiopian Highlands. Additional species are known from fossils, including: *''

Theropithecus brumpti ''Theropithecus brumpti'' was a large terrestrial monkey that lived in the mid to late Pliocene. It is an extinct species of papionin. This fossil primate is mostly known from skulls and mandibles found in Pliocene deposits excavated in the Sh ...

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Theropithecus darti ''Theropithecus darti'' is an extinct species of ''Theropithecus'' from the middle to late Pliocene of Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million ...

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Theropithecus oswaldi ''Theropithecus oswaldi'' is an extinct species of '' Theropithecus'' from the early to middle Pleistocene of Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Spain, Morocco and Algeria. It appears to have been a specialised grazer. The species went exti ...

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q9087293 Papionini Primate genera Mammal genera with one living species Taxa named by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Taxa described in 1843