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Pongo (orangutan)
Taxonomy
Pongo was named by Lacépède (1799) [non Pongo Haeckel 1866]. It is extant.
It was assigned to Ponginae by Pilbeam et al. (1977); to Pongini by Andrews (1992), Cameron (1997); to Pongidae by Andrews and Cronin (1982), McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Hominoidea by Zalmout et al. (2010).
It was assigned to Ponginae by Pilbeam et al. (1977); to Pongini by Andrews (1992), Cameron (1997); to Pongidae by Andrews and Cronin (1982), McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Hominoidea by Zalmout et al. (2010).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1799 | Pongo Lacépède |
| 1977 | Pongo Pilbeam et al. p. 695 |
| 1982 | Pongo Andrews and Cronin p. 545 |
| 1992 | Pongo Andrews p. 644 |
| 1997 | Pongo Cameron |
| 1997 | Pongo McKenna and Bell |
| 2010 | Pongo Zalmout et al. pp. Supp. 4 figs. Table 2 |
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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.
G. Pongo Lacépède 1799 [orangutan]
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Pongo abelii Lesson 1827 [Sumatran orangutan]
†Pongo hooijeri Schwartz et al. 1995
Pongo pygmaeus Linnaeus 1760 [Bornean orangutan]
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†Pongo pygmaeus ciochoni Schwartz et al. 1995
†Pongo pygmaeus devosi Schwartz et al. 1995
†Pongo pygmaeus fromageti Schwartz et al. 1995
Pongo pygmaeus morio Owen 1837
†Pongo pygmaeus kahlkei Schwartz et al. 1995
Pongo tapanuliensis Nater et al. 2017
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Taylor 2006, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 2.58000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.774 Ma
Collections (21 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Guanxi) | Pongo sp. (230994) | |
| Pleistocene | Vietnam (Bac Thai) | Pongo pygmaeus (107998) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guizhou) | Pongo sp. (51100) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Pongo sp. (40341 120834) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Pongo sp. (235740) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Malaysia (Perak) | Pongo sp. (235742) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam (Lang Son) | Pongo sp., Pongo hooijeri, Pongo pygmaeus (92781) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam | Pongo hooijeri (107995) Pongo sp., Pongo pygmaeus (108001) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Laos (Hua Pan) | Pongo pygmaeus (235746) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Thailand (Chaiyaphum) | Pongo pygmaeus (237787) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Pongo pygmaeus (235737) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Pongo pygmaeus (13293) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Vietnam (Thanh Hoa) | Pongo pygmaeus (107999 108000) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Indonesia | Pongo pygmaeus (93524) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Vietnam | Pongo pygmaeus (107996 107997) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Malaysia (Selangor) | Pongo sp. (235743) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Thailand (Chaiyaphum) | Pongo sp. (237788) |