RT Journal Article
T1 Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution
A1 Alba, David
A1 Almécija, Sergio
A1 DeMiguel, Daniel
A1 Fortuny, Josep
A1 Pérez De Los Ríos, Miriam
A1 Pina, Marta
A1 Robles, Josep
A1 Moyà-Solà, Salvador
AB Miocene small-bodied anthropoid primates from Africa and Eurasia are generally considered to precede the divergence between the two groups of extant catarrhines—hominoids (apes and humans) and Old World monkeys—and are thus viewed as more primitive than the stem ape Proconsul. Here we describe Pliobates cataloniae gen. et sp. nov., a small-bodied (4 to 5 kilograms) primate from the Iberian Miocene (11.6 million years ago) that displays a mosaic of primitive characteristics coupled with multiple cranial and postcranial shared derived features of extant hominoids. Our cladistic analyses show that Pliobates is a stem hominoid that is more derived than previously described small catarrhines and Proconsul.This forces us to reevaluate the role played by small-bodied catarrhines in ape evolution and provides key insight into the last common ancestor of hylobatids (gibbons) and hominids (great apes and humans).
SN 0036-8075
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99619
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99619
LA eng
NO David M. Alba et al. ,Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution.Science350,aab2625(2015).DOI:10.1126/science.aab2625
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
NO Ministerio de Educación (España)
NO National Science Foundation
NO Generalitat de Catalunya
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025