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A [[femur]] discovered in [[Eppelsheim]] and given the Genus name [[Paidopithex]] was for many years controversial, as its large size compared to Pliopithecoids led to suggestions that it was instead related to the [[Dryopithecini]]. A lack of femurs for Dryopithecini meant that the suggestion was not ruled out for many years, but in 2002 work by Köhler et al comparing it to a recently discovered [[Dryopithecus laietanus]] skeleton showed that it was very different from the Dryopithecini. However, Köhler felt unable to definitely place Paidopithex in the Pliopithecoid superfamily, stating it was either an unusually large Pliopithecoid (estimated bodyweight 22 kg) or could be the sole known species of a separate superfamily.<ref name="Kohler">{{cite journal |title=Taxonomic affinities of the Eppelsheim femur |last1=Köhler |first1=M |last2=Alba |first2=DM|last3=Solà |first3=SM|last4=MacLatchy |first4=L|date=December 2002 |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |pmid=12448015 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.10140 |volume=119 |issue=4 |pages=297–304}}</ref>
A worn tooth found near [[Haritalyangar]] in India and dated from around 9 to 8 million years ago has been suggested as possibly a Pliopithecoid species, [[Krishnapithecus krishnai]], but the wear has made this difficult to determine.<ref name="Begun2012">{{cite book|editor-last1=Begun|editor-first1=David|title=A Companion To Paleoanthropology|date=2012|chapter=Chapter 20 Catarrhine Origins|last=Harrison|first=Terry|publisher=Wiley Blackwell|isbn=978-1-118-33237-5|chapter-url=https://books.google.
== Physical characteristics ==
The pliopithecoid fossil record mostly consists of teeth with a few mandibular and maxillary fragments.<ref name="Begun2002" /><ref name="Harrison2013" /> The dental formula (2.1.2.3) and shape of the teeth are the primary factors which include pliopithecoids among the [[catarrhini]]. Although some authors have argued that the narrow upper molars and broad upper molars of pliopithecoids demonstrate their affinity with modern catarrhines,<ref name="Harrison&Gu1999">{{cite journal|last1=Harrison|first1=Terry|last2=Gu|first2=Yumin|title=Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of early Miocene catarrhines from Sihong, China|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|date=1999|volume=37|issue=2|pages=225–277|doi=10.1006/jhev.1999.0310|pmid=10444352}}</ref> others have demonstrated that these traits are variable between species.<ref name="Begun2002" /> In fact, pliopithecoids are more similar to [[New World monkey]]s in some aspects of their dentition, including narrow lower incisors (mesiodistally waisted towards the base of the crown).<ref name="Begun2002" /><ref name="Albaetal2010">{{cite journal|last1=Alba|first1=David|last2=Moyà-Solà|first2=Salvador|last3=Malgosa|first3=Assumpció|last4=Casanovas-Vilar|first4=Isaac|last5=Robles|first5=Josep|last6=Almécija|first6=Sergio|last7=Galindo|first7=Jordi|last8=Rotgers|first8=Cheyenn|last9=Bertó Mengual|first9=Juan Vicente|title=A new species of ''Pliopithecus'' Gervais, 1849 (Primates: Pliopithecoidea) from the Middle Miocene (MN8) of Abocador de Can Mata (els Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia, Spain)|journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|date=2010|volume=141|issue=1|pages=52–75|doi=10.1002/ajpa.21114|pmid=19544577}}</ref> Many species have what is often referred to as a 'pliopithecine triangle', a subtle set of ridges defining a small triangular shaped pit between the protocone<!--aka protoconid cusp--> and hypocone<!--aka hypoconid cusp--> of the lower molars, but even this trait is variable.<ref name="Begun2002" /><ref name="Harrison1987" /> Instead, the most defining dental trait present in all pliopithecoids is a tall crowned lower third premolar, which is relatively triangular in outline with a comparatively short, vertically oriented mesiobucal face.<ref name="Begun2002" />
The crania of ''P. vindobonesis'', ''Laccopithecus robustus'', ''Pliopithecus zhanxiangi'', and ''Anapithecus hernyaki'' demonstrate that pliopithecoids had relatively large and globular braincases with a projecting snout.<ref name="Begun2002" /><ref name="Andrewsetal1996" /> The snout projects less than the propliopithecoids of North Africa (''i.e.'' ''[[Aegyptopithecus]]''), suggesting some prognathic reduction from the inferred common ancestor of these two primate families. The orbits are widely spaced and the mandible is long and robust, with a relatively broad ramus.<ref name="Begun2002" /> Most importantly, however, pliopithecoids had an incompletely ossified ectotympanic tube. This anatomical feature represents an intermediate stage between what is found in [[platyrrhines]], which do not have an ossified ectotympanic tube, and [[catarrhines]], which have a completely ossified ectotympanic tube.<ref name="Begun2002" /><ref name="Harrison2013" /><ref name="Andrewsetal1996" />
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