Paracolobus
| Paracolobus Temporal range: | |
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| Holotype specimen of P. chemeroni (AMNH 129319) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Subfamily: | Colobinae |
| Genus: | †Paracolobus R.E.F. Leakey, 1969 |
| Type species | |
| †Paracolobus chemeroni Leakey, 1969 | |
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Paracolobus is an extinct genus of primate closely related to the living colobus monkeys. It lived in eastern Africa in the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. Fossils have been found in Kenya and Ethiopia, in places such as the Omo valley.