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Pliopithecus zhanxiangi
Taxonomy
Pliopithecus zhanxiangi was named by Harrison et al. (1991). Its type specimen is BPV-1021, a partial skull (crushed partial cranium), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tong Xin 'Dragon Bones' collection, Ningxia, which is in a Serravallian terrestrial horizon in China.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1991 | Pliopithecus zhanxiangi Harrison et al. p. 333 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Pliopithecus zhanxiangi Harrison et al. 1991
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Serravallian or 13.82000 to 11.63000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Serravallian | China (Ningxia) | Pliopithecus sp. (type locality: 42539) |