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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) and Cameron (1997); to Pongidae by Andrews and Cronin (1982) and 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) and Cameron (1997); to Pongidae by Andrews and Cronin (1982) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Hominoidea by Zalmout et al. (2010).
Species
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 kahlkei Schwartz et al. 1995
Pongo pygmaeus morio Owen 1837
Pongo tapanuliensis Nater et al. 2017
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Taylor 2006, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma
Collections (13 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Vietnam (Bac Thai) | Pongo pygmaeus (107998) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam | Pongo hooijeri (107995) Pongo sp., Pongo pygmaeus (108001) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guizhou) | Pongo sp. (51100) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam (Lang Son) | Pongo sp., Pongo hooijeri, Pongo pygmaeus (92781) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Pongo sp. (40341 120834) | |
| 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) |