Editing Theropithecus (section)

{{Short description|Genus of Old World monkeys}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = [[Pliocene]]-Recent {{fossilrange|4.1|0}}
| image = Southern gelada (Theropithecus gelada obscurus) male.jpg
| image_caption = Male gelada
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Theropithecus
| authority = [[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire|I. Geoffroy, 1843]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| type_species = ''[[Theropithecus gelada]]''
| type_species_authority = ([[Eduard Rüppell|Rüppell]], 1835)
}}

'''''Theropithecus''''' is a genus of primates in the family [[Cercopithecidae]]. It contains a single living species, the [[gelada]] (''Theropithecus gelada''), native to the [[Ethiopian Highlands]].

Additional species are known from fossils, including:
* {{extinct}}''[[Theropithecus brumpti]]''<ref name=TurnerAnton>{{cite book | author = Turner, Alan |author2=Antón, Mauricio | title = Evolving Eden, An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-Mammal Fauna | publisher = Columbia University Press | year = 2004 | location = New York | page = 55}}</ref><ref name=":0">Getahun, D. A., Delson, E., & Seyoum, C. M. (2023). A review of Theropithecus oswaldi with the proposal of a new subspecies. Journal of human evolution, 180, 103373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103373</ref>
* {{extinct}}''[[Theropithecus darti]]''
* {{extinct}}''[[Theropithecus oswaldi]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=133587 |title=The Paleobiology Database |access-date=11 August 2013}}</ref>
The earliest remains probably belonging to the genus are from [[Kanapoi]], Kenya, dating to the early Pliocene, around 4.1-4.2 million years ago.<ref name=":0" />

Although most remains are known from Africa,<ref name=":0" /> during the [[Early Pleistocene]] the genus had a broader distribution ranging from southern Europe, including Spain<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ferràndez-Cañadell |first=Carles |last2=Ribot |first2=Francesc |last3=Gibert |first3=Lluís |date=September 2014 |title=New fossil teeth of Theropithecus oswaldi (Cercopithecoidea) from the Early Pleistocene at Cueva Victoria (SE Spain) |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0047248414001092 |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |language=en |volume=74 |pages=55–66 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.02.020|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and possibly Italy,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Patel |first=Biren A. |last2=Gilbert |first2=Christopher C. |last3=Ericson |first3=Kristin E. |date=February 2007 |title=Cercopithecoid cervical vertebral morphology and implications for the presence of Theropithecus in early Pleistocene Europe |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S004724840600159X |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |language=en |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=113–129 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.07.014|url-access=subscription }}</ref> to the Indian subcontinent.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Patnaik |first=Rajeev |last2=Cerling |first2=Thure E. |last3=Uno |first3=Kevin T. |last4=Fleagle |first4=John G. |date=April 2014 |title=Diet and Habitat of Siwalik Primates Indopithecus, Sivaladapis and Theropithecus |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5735/086.051.0214 |journal=Annales Zoologici Fennici |language=en |volume=51 |issue=1-2 |pages=123–142 |doi=10.5735/086.051.0214 |issn=0003-455X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>