Systematics of Miocene apes: State of the art of a neverending controversy

A Urciuoli, DM Alba - Journal of Human Evolution, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Hominoids diverged from cercopithecoids during the Oligocene in Afro-Arabia, initially
radiating in that continent and subsequently dispersing into Eurasia. From the Late Miocene …

Late Cenozoic faunal and ecological change in Africa

JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Africa's fossil record of late Cenozoic mammals documents considerable ecological and
evolutionary changes through time. Here, we synthesize those changes in the context of the …

The Miocene primate Pliobates is a pliopithecoid

F Bouchet, C Zanolli, A Urciuoli, S Almécija… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
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 …

The reconstructed cranium of Pierolapithecus and the evolution of the great ape face

KD Pugh, SA Catalano, M Pérez De Los Ríos… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (~ 12 million years ago, northeastern Spain) is key to
understanding the mosaic nature of hominid (great ape and human) evolution. Notably, its …

African apes and the evolutionary history of orthogrady and bipedalism

SA Williams, TC Prang, GA Russo… - American Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Since the first discovery of human fossils in the mid‐19th century, two subjects—our
phylogenetic relationship to living and fossil apes and the ancestral locomotor behaviors …

[HTML][HTML] Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches

RMD Beck, D de Vries, MC Janiak, IB Goodhead… - Journal of Human …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
There have been multiple published phylogenetic analyses of platyrrhine primates (New
World monkeys) using both morphological and molecular data, but relatively few that have …

A revised (earliest Vallesian) age for the hominoid-bearing locality of Can Mata 1 based on new magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data from Abocador de Can …

DM Alba, JM Robles, I Casanovas-Vilar… - Journal of Human …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Abocador de Can Mata (ACM) composite stratigraphic sequence (els Hostalets
de Pierola, Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) has yielded a diverse primate …

Evolutionary ecology of Miocene hominoid primates in Southeast Asia

SG Habinger, O Chavasseau, JJ Jaeger… - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
The evolutionary history and palaeoecology of orangutans remains poorly understood until
today. The restricted geographic distribution of extant Pongo indicates specific ecological …

Twenty-five well-justified fossil calibrations for primate divergences

D de Vries, R Beck - Palaeontologia Electronica, 2023‏ - salford-repository.worktribe.com
Phylogenies with estimates of divergence times are essential for investigating many
evolutionary questions. In principle,“tip-dating” is arguably the most appropriate approach …

Evolution of vertebral numbers in primates, with a focus on hominoids and the last common ancestor of hominins and panins

JK Spear, M Grabowski, Y Sekhavati, CE Costa… - Journal of Human …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The primate vertebral column has been extensively studied, with a particular focus on
hominoid primates and the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. The number …