Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution

被引：64
作者：
Alba, David M. [1 ]
Almecija, Sergio [1 ,2 ]
DeMiguel, Daniel [1 ]
Fortuny, Josep [1 ]
de los Rios, Miriam Perez [1 ]
Pina, Marta [1 ]
Robles, Josep M. [1 ,3 ]
Moya-Sola, Salvador [4 ,5 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Catala Paleontol Miquel Crusafont ICP, Edifici ICTA ICP,Campus UAB, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[2] George Washington Univ, Dept Anthropol, Ctr Adv Study Human Paleobiol, Washington, DC 20052 USA
[3] FOSSILIA Serv Paleontol & Geol, Barcelona 08470, Spain
[4] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, ICP, Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[5] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Biol Anim Biol Vegetal & Ecol, Unitat Antropol Biol, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
来源：
SCIENCE | 2015年 / 350卷 / 6260期
基金：
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词：
OLD-WORLD MONKEYS; VALLES-PENEDES BASIN; MIDDLE-MIOCENE; DENTAL MICROWEAR; PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS; DIAPHYSEAL STRUCTURE; MOLAR MICROWEAR; RUSINGA ISLAND; FOSSIL APES; WRIST JOINT;
D O I：
10.1126/science.aab2625
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
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).
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