''Theropithecus darti'' is an extinct

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Theropithecus ''Theropithecus'' is a genus of primates in the family Cercopithecidae. It contains a single living species, the gelada (''Theropithecus gelada''), native to the Ethiopian Highlands The Ethiopian Highlands is a rugged mass of mountains in Et ...

'' from the middle to late

Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

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Papionini Pliocene mammals of Africa Taxa named by Robert Broom Fossil taxa described in 1946 Pliocene primates {{paleo-primate-stub