The Miocene primate Pliobates is a pliopithecoid.
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Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
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Date de publication:
01 Apr 2024
01 Apr 2024
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received:
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05
2023
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02
2024
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4
2024
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4
2024
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4
2024
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Résumé
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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doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47034-9
pii: 10.1038/s41467-024-47034-9
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