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SUBMITTER: Morgan ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4291661 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morgan Michèle E ME Lewton Kristi L KL Kelley Jay J Otárola-Castillo Erik E Barry John C JC Flynn Lawrence J LJ Pilbeam David D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20141208 1
We describe a partial innominate, YGSP 41216, from a 12.3 Ma locality in the Siwalik Group of the Potwar Plateau in Pakistan, assigned to the Middle Miocene ape species Sivapithecus indicus. We investigate the implications of its morphology for reconstructing positional behavior of this ape. Postcranial anatomy of extant catarrhines falls into two distinct groups, particularly for torso shape. To an extent this reflects different although variable and overlapping positional repertoires: pronogra ...[more]