| Microcolobus Temporal range: Late Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Subfamily: | Colobinae |
| Genus: | †Microcolobus Benefit & Pickford, 1986 |
| Species: | †M. tugenensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Microcolobus tugenensis Benefit & Pickford, 1986
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Microcolobus is an extinct genus of Old world monkey that lived in eastern Africa during the Late Miocene and is regarded as the first known member of the Colobinae.[1]
- ^ Fleagle, John G. (2013). Primate Adaptation and Evolution. Elsevier Science. p. 353. ISBN 9781483288505.