Dolichopithecus ruscinensis Depéret, 1889

Koufos, George D., 2009, The Neogene cercopithecids (Mammalia, Primates) of Greece, Geodiversitas 31 (4), pp. 817-850 : 840

Dolichopithecus ruscinensis Depéret, 1889

LOCALITY. — Megalon Emvolon (MEV), near Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece; Ptolemais Basin (PTL), Notio Mb of Ptolemais Fm., Macedonia, Greece.

AGE. — Late Ruscinian, MN 15 (early Pliocene).

DIAGNOSIS. — Colobine monkey of moderate size; constant mandibular depth; strong sexual dimorphism in the canines; strong metaconid and protoconid in the relatively narrow p4; the mesial breadth of the m3 is larger than the distal one of the m2; the m3’s hypoconulid is situated between the midline and the line joining the buccal cuspids of the tooth; there is no clear fifth cuspid in the m3’s talonid but there is a cingular elevation indicating its development ( Koufos et al. 1991a).

Subfamily CERCOPITHECINAE Gray, 1821