Ponginae

Ponginae, 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, the Tapanuli orangutan and the Bornean orangutan. All three species are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Ponginae

Eleifert · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HominidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Hominidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Hominidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 24 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene — about 34 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.3–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences13.82 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

58 occurrences of Ponginae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

58 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Maboko — 0.15°S, 34.60°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EChinji — 32.82°N, 75.37°EIrrawaddy — 20.12°N, 95.13°EIrrawaddy — 19.85°N, 95.00°EDhok Pathan — 33.00°N, 72.00°EDhok Pathan — 33.30°N, 72.70°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EDhok Pathan — 31.53°N, 76.63°EOlesa-Les Fonts alluvial system — 41.54°N, 2.06°E

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The named rock units Ponginae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ponginae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ponginae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

634 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Ponginae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

35 references

Each of the 58 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 23 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ponginae

Credit
Eleifert
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ponginae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Elliot 1913