Pliobates
Extinct genus of primates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pliobates cataloniae is a primate from 11.6 million years ago, during the Iberian Miocene.[1][2][3] Originally described as a species of stem-ape that was found to be the sister taxon to gibbons and great apes like humans,[1] it was subsequently reinterpreted as a non-ape catarrhine belonging to the group Crouzeliidae within the superfamily Pliopithecoidea on the basis of discovery of new dental remains with crouzeliid synapomorphies.[4]
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Pliobates | |
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Pliobates fossils and reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | †Pliopithecidae |
Subfamily: | †Crouzeliinae |
Genus: | †Pliobates Alba et al. 2015[1] |
Species: | †P. cataloniae |
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†Pliobates cataloniae Alba et al. 2015[1] | |
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