Theropithecus brumpti

Theropithecus brumpti was a large terrestrialmonkey that lived in the mid- to late Pliocene. It is an extinctspecies of papionin.

This fossilprimate is mostly known from skulls and mandibles found in Pliocene deposits excavated in the Shungura Formation, at the Omo River, Ethiopia. Both T. brumpti and the related extant gelada (T. gelada) were related to the various baboon species.