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Pierolapithecus Catalaunicus
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Pierolapithecus Catalaunicus
Intro
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Why so important?
- Known as Moya – Sola et al
- Hominoid
- In 2004, announced may be the last common ancestor
13 million years ago, during middle miocene located fossil at the village of Hostalets de pierola in Catalonia, Spain.
- Pithecus in Greek word for “ape”
- Caralunicus commemorate as Catalonia, due to where its located in Spain.
- “ Pierolapithecus is one of the most important of the known prehistoric apes because it is widely regarded as the ancestral form to not only today’s apes, but also humans.” – Prehistoric Wildlife
- There are only four great apes: gorilla, chimpanzee, bonbons, and orangutans. Surprisingly gorilla, chimpanzee, and bonbons are related to Pierolapithecus Catalaunicus
Features
You can see it's been discovered around the Hominoid nearly to the great apes and humans.
- Fruit eater
- Wider and flatter chest than most of the monkeys & earliest modern apelike
- Several features include lesser apes (gibbons and siamanges ) and monkeys.
- Adapted to tree climbing and knuckle walking on the ground.
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