Mesopithecus pentelicus Wagner, 1839

Koufos, George D., 2009, The Neogene cercopithecids (Mammalia, Primates) of Greece, Geodiversitas 31 (4), pp. 817-850 : 839

Mesopithecus pentelicus Wagner, 1839

HOLOTYPE. — Maxillary fragment with M1-M3 described by Wagner (1839) and figured by Wagner (1840). The specimen is housed in BSPM numbered as BSPM ASII. 11.

LOCALITIES. — Classical Pikermi ravine ( PIK), Attica, Greece (near Athens) ; Chomateres or Kisdari ( CHO), Attica, Greece (near Athens) .

AGE. — Middle Turolian, MN 12 (late Miocene); more precisely it is referred to the uppermost MN 12 with an age of ~7.0 Ma. Th e fauna of Chomateres is considered slightly older than the Pikermi one.

DIAGNOSIS. — Medium-sized colobine monkey; short, upright face; sexual dimorphism in the skull, canines and postcranials; absent or very small sagittal crest in the males; enlarged mandibular angle; shallow mandibular corpus with constant height between p4 and m3; convex anterior symphysis without symphyseal constriction; small and deeply inclined planum alveolare; absent or weak fossa genioglossa; small lingual cusp in the P3, 4; small honing facet in the p3; small hypoconulid in the m3.