The Miocene primate Pliobates is a pliopithecoid.
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- Bouchet F; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain. florian.bouchet@icp.cat.; Zanolli C; Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, MCC, PACEA, UMR 5199, F-33600, Pessac, France.; Urciuoli A; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.; Division of Palaeoanthropology, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.; Universidad de Alcalá, Cátedra de Otoacústica Evolutiva y Paleoantropología (HM Hospitales-UAH), Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, 28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.; Almécija S; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.; Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, 10024, USA.; New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY, 10016, USA.; Fortuny J; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.; Robles JM; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.; Beaudet A; Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Évolution, Paléoécosystèmes et Paléoprimatologie (PALEVOPRIM), UMR 7262 CNRS, Univ. Poitiers, Poitiers, France.; Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1QH, United Kingdom.; School of Geography, Archaeology, and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, WITS, 2050, South Africa.; Moyà-Solà S; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, 08010, Barcelona, Spain.; Unitat d'Antropologia Biològica (Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.; Alba DM; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain. david.alba@icp.cat.
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- Publisher: Nature Pub. Group Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101528555 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2041-1723 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 20411723 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Nat Commun Subsets: MEDLINE
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The systematic status of the small-bodied catarrhine primate Pliobates cataloniae, from the Miocene (11.6 Ma) of Spain, is controversial because it displays a mosaic of primitive and derived features compared with extant hominoids (apes and humans). Cladistic analyses have recovered Pliobates as either a stem hominoid or as a pliopithecoid stem catarrhine (i.e., preceding the cercopithecoid-hominoid divergence). Here, we describe additional dental remains of P. cataloniae from another locality that display unambiguous synapomorphies of crouzeliid pliopithecoids. Our cladistic analyses support a close phylogenetic link with poorly-known small crouzeliids from Europe based on (cranio)dental characters but recover pliopithecoids as stem hominoids when postcranial characters are included. We conclude that Pliobates is a derived stem catarrhine that shows postcranial convergences with modern apes in the elbow and wrist joints-thus clarifying pliopithecoid evolution and illustrating the plausibility of independent acquisition of postcranial similarities between hylobatids and hominids.
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