Theropithecus brumpti
| Theropithecus brumpti Temporal range: Pliocene
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| Skull cast of T. brumpti | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Theropithecus |
| Species: | †T. brumpti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg, 1947
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Theropithecus brumpti was a large terrestrial monkey that lived in the mid- to late Pliocene. It is an extinct species of papionin.
This fossil primate is mostly known from skulls and mandibles found in Pliocene deposits excavated in the Shungura Formation, at the Omo River, Ethiopia. Both T. brumpti and the related extant gelada (T. gelada) were related to the various baboon species.