Mammalia - Primates - Pliopithecidae
Full reference: T. Harrison, E. Delson, and J. Guan. 1991. A new species of Pliopithecus from the middle Miocene of China and its implications for early catarrhine zoogeography. Journal of Human Evolution 21(5):329-361
Belongs to Pliopithecus according to T. Harrison et al. 1991
Sister taxa: Pliopithecus (Epipliopithecus), Pliopithecus antiquus, Pliopithecus canmatensis, Pliopithecus platyodon, Pliopithecus vindobonensis
Type specimen: BPV-1021, a partial skull (crushed partial cranium). Its type locality is Tong Xin 'Dragon Bones' collection, Ningxia, which is in a Serravallian terrestrial horizon in China.
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution: found only at Tong Xin 'Dragon Bones' collection, Ningxia
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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