Pliobates
Pliobates Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Superfamily: | Hominoidea |
Family: | †Pliobatidae Alba et al. 2015[1] |
Genus: | †Pliobates Alba et al. 2015[1] |
Species: | †P. cataloniae
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Binomial name | |
†Pliobates cataloniae Alba et al. 2015[1]
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Pliobates cataloniae is a primate from 11.6 million years ago, during the Iberian Miocene.[1][2][3] It is a species of stem-ape that was found to be the sister taxon to gibbons and great apes like humans.[1] Its anatomy is gibbon-like; prior to this discovery, it was assumed that the ancestral ape bauplan was robust like Proconsul.[4] This species has mosaic characteristics of primitive, monkey-like features and the more derived ape characteristics; it was, however, not a direct ancestor of modern apes but rather a side-branch that retained the ancestral morphotype and was thus placed in its own family Pliobatidae.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e Alba, David M.; Almécija, Sergio; DeMiguel, Daniel; Fortuny, Josep; de los Rios, Miriam Pérez; Pina, Marta; Robles, Josep M.; Moyà-Solà, Salvador (30 October 2015). "Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution". Science. 350 (6260): aab2625. Bibcode:2015Sci...350.2625A. doi:10.1126/science.aab2625. PMID 26516285.
- ^ Bouchet, Florian; Urciuoli, Alessandro; Beaudet, Amélie; Pina, Marta; Moyà-Solà, Salvador; Alba, David M. (2021-12-01). "Comparative anatomy of the carotid canal in the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae". Journal of Human Evolution. 161: 103073. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103073. hdl:2263/82958. ISSN 0047-2484.
- ^ Urciuoli, Alessandro; Zanolli, Clément; Bouchet, Florian; Almécija, Sergio; Moyà-Solà, Salvador; Alba, David M (2022). "Semicircular canal morphology of the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae: Phylogenetic implications". doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.34937.34409.
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(help) - ^ Barras, Colin (29 October 2015). "Fossil discovery could be the last common ancestor to all apes". New Scientist.
- ^ Kahn, Amina (29 October 2015). "Ancestor of all apes might not be what scientists expected, new fossil shows". Science Now. Los Angeles Times.