Researchers have discovered in the rubbish dump in Spain a new species of Pliopithecus primate, considered an extinct family of primitive Catarrhini primates (or "Old World monkeys"). The fragments of ...
Problems of ascertaining affinities of fossil taxa are explored utilizing the European Miocene primate Pliopithecus vindobonensis as an example. Traditionally, Pliopithecus has been regarded as an ...