Crouzeliinae

Crouzeliinae
Temporal range: Early Miocene–Late Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: †Pliopithecidae
Subfamily: †Crouzeliinae
Genera

Plesiopliopithecus
Anapithecus
Laccopithecus
Egarapithecus
Barberapithecus
Pliobates[1]

Crouzeliinae is an extinct subfamily of Pliopithecidae primates that inhabited Europe and China during the Miocene, approximately 8–14.5 million years ago[2] - they appear to have originated in Asia and extended their range into Europe between 17 and 13 million years ago.[3] Crouzeliines can be distinguished from the other Pliopithecoidea subfamilies on the basis of uniquely derived dental traits.

  1. ^ Bouchet, Florian; Zanolli, Clément; Urciuoli, Alessandro; Almécija, Sergio; Fortuny, Josep; Robles, Josep M.; Beaudet, Amélie; Moyà-Solà, Salvador; Alba, David M. (2024). "The Miocene primate Pliobates is a pliopithecoid". Nature Communications. 15. 2822. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-47034-9. PMC 10984959. PMID 38561329.
  2. ^ Begun, David (2002). The Pliopithecoidea (PDF). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66315-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-25. Retrieved 2016-03-20.
  3. ^ Harrison, Terry (2012). "Chapter 20 Catarrhine Origins". In Begun, David (ed.). A Companion To Paleoanthropology. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-118-33237-5. Archived from the original on 2020-07-25. Retrieved 2020-09-29.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)