Pliopithecus - Facts and Figures

Pliopithecus - Facts and Figures Name: Pliopithecus (Greek for Pliocene gorilla); articulated PLY-gracious essence ECK-us Environment: Forests of Eurasia Authentic Epoch: Center Miocene (15-10 million years back) Size and Weight: Around three feet tall and 50 pounds Diet: Leaves Recognizing Characteristics: Short face with huge eyes; long arms and legs  About Pliopithecus One of the main ancient primates ever to be identifiednaturalists were examining its fossilized teeth as far back as the mid nineteenth centuryPliopithecus is additionally one of the least surely known (as can be derived from its namethis Pliocene gorilla really lived in the previous Miocene age). Pliopithecus was once thought to be straightforwardly hereditary to present day gibbons, and henceforth one of the most punctual genuine gorillas, however the disclosure of the considerably prior Propliopithecus (before Pliopithecus) has rendered that hypothesis disputable. Further confounding issues, Pliopithecus was just one of in excess of two dozen comparative looking primates of Miocene Eurasia, and its a long way from clear how they were totally identified with one another. On account of later fossil disclosures from the 1960s, we discover much more about Pliopithecus than the state of its jaws and teeth. This ancient primate had long, similarly estimated arms and legs, which makes it indistinct whether it brachiated (i.e., swung from branch to branch), and its enormous eyes didnt very face completely forward, throwing questions on the degree of its stereoscopic vision. We do know (because of those omnipresent teeth) that Pliopithecus was a moderately delicate herbivore, staying alive on the leaves of its preferred trees and likely rejecting the periodic bugs and little creatures delighted in by its omnivorous family members.