Papionini

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

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

• Family Cercopithecidae
  • Subfamily Cercopithecinae
    • Tribe Cercopithecini
    • Tribe Papionini
      • Genus Macaca – macaques
      • Genus Lophocebus – crested mangabeys
      • Genus Rungwecebus – highland mangabey (kipunji)
      • Genus Papio – baboons
      • Genus Theropithecus – gelada
      • Genus Cercocebus – white-eyelid mangabeys
      • Genus Mandrillus – drill and mandrill
    • Fossil genera
      • Genus Dinopithecus
      • Genus Gorgopithecus
      • Genus Paradolichopithecus
      • Genus Parapapio
      • Genus Pliopapio
      • Genus Procercocebus
      • Genus Procynocephalus
      • Genus Soromandrillus

References

1. Fleagle, John G. (2013). Primate adaptation and evolution (3rd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press. ISBN   9780123786326. OCLC   820107187.
2. Szalay, Frederick S.; Delson, Eric (1979). Evolutionary history of the primates . New York: Academic Press. ISBN   0126801509. 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.