Biology:Ponginae

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Short description: Orangutan subfamily of apes

Ponginae
Orang Utan, Semenggok Forest Reserve, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.JPG
Pongo pygmaeus (Bornean orangutan)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Ponginae
Elliot, 1913
Type genus
Pongo
Lacépède, 1799
Genera

Lufengpithecus
Meganthropus
Ankarapithecus
Sivapithecus
Gigantopithecus
Indopithecus
Khoratpithecus
Pongo

sister: Homininae

Ponginae /pɒnˈn/, also known as the Asian hominids, is a subfamily in the family Hominidae. Once a diverse lineage of Eurasian apes, the subfamily has only one extant genus, Pongo (orangutans), which contains three extant species; the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) and the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). All three species are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).[1][2][3]

Evolutionary history

The first pongine genera appear in the Miocene, Sivapithecus and Khoratpithecus,[4][5] six or seven million years before evidence of orangutans was found from Pleistocene southeast Asia and southern China.[6] Ponginae may also include the genera Lufengpithecus, Ankarapithecus, and Gigantopithecus. However, phylogenetic analysis in 2004, which originally found Lufengpithecus and Ankarapithecus to be most closely related to the orangutan, gave different results "under an analytical method that attempted to reduce stratigraphic incongruence",[7] instead placing them on the base of the stem of the African ape-human clade.[4]

Meganthropus was considered by the majority of paleoanthropologists as falling within the variation of Homo erectus. However, a study from 2019 of tooth morphology found Meganthropus a valid genus of non-hominin hominid ape, most closely related to Lufengpithecus[8]

The most well-known fossil genus of Ponginae is Sivapithecus, consisting of several species from 12.5 million to 8.5 million years ago. It differs from orangutans in dentition and postcranial morphology.[7]

Taxonomy

Ponginae[9]

References

  1. Singleton, Ian; Wich, Serge A.; Nowak, Matthew G.; Usher, Graham; Utami-Atmoko, Sri Suchi (2017). "Pongo abelii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017.3 2017: e.T121097935A115575085. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T121097935A115575085.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/121097935/115575085. 
  2. Ancrenaz, Mark; Gumal, M.; Marshall, Andrew; Meijaard, Erik; Wich, Serge A.; Hussons, Steve J. (2016). "Pongo pygmaeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016.1 2016: e.T17975A17966347. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T17975A17966347.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/17975/17966347. 
  3. Nowak, Matthew G.; Rianti, Puji; Wich, Serge A.; Meijaard, Erik; Fredriksson, Gabriella (2017). "Pongo tapanuliensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017.3 2017: e.T120588639A120588662. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T120588639A120588662.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/120588639/120588662. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Finarelli, J. A.; Clyde, W. C. (2004). "Reassessing hominoid phylogeny: Evaluating congruence in the morphological and temporal data". Paleobiology 30 (4): 614. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2004)030<0614:RHPECI>2.0.CO;2. http://earth.unh.edu/clyde/PDF%20of%20Papers/Finarelli_Clyde_2004.pdf. Retrieved 2015-09-03. 
  5. Chaimanee, Y.; Suteethorn, V.; Jintasakul, P.; Vidthayanon, C.; Marandat, B.; Jaeger, J. J. (2004). "A new orang-utan relative from the Late Miocene of Thailand". Nature 427 (6973): 439–441. doi:10.1038/nature02245. PMID 14749830. Bibcode2004Natur.427..439C. http://www.scienceinschool.org/repository/docs/issue5_nature_chaimanee2004.pdf. 
  6. Bacon, A. M.; The Long, V. (2001). "The first discovery of a complete skeleton of a fossil orang-utan in a cave of the Hoa Binh Province, Vietnam". Journal of Human Evolution 41 (3): 227–241. doi:10.1006/jhev.2001.0496. PMID 11535001. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Taylor, C. (2011). "Old men of the woods". Palaeos. http://palaeos.com/vertebrates/primates/ponginae.html. 
  8. Zanolli, Clément; Kullmer, Ottmar; Kelley, Jay; Bacon, Anne-Marie; Demeter, Fabrice; Dumoncel, Jean; Fiorenza, Luca; Grine, Frederick E. et al. (May 2019). "Evidence for increased hominid diversity in the Early to Middle Pleistocene of Indonesia" (in en). Nature Ecology & Evolution 3 (5): 755–764. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0860-z. ISSN 2397-334X. PMID 30962558. http://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0860-z. 
  9. Haaramo, Mikko (2004-02-04). "Pongidae". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/eutheria/primates/hominoidea/pongidae.html.  after Begun, 2002, Chaimanee et al., 2003 and Chaimanee et al., 2004.

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