Pongo Lacépède 1799 (orangutan)

Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae

Parent taxon: Pongini according to D. W. Cameron 1997

See also Andrews 1992, Andrews and Cronin 1982, McKenna and Bell 1997, Pilbeam et al. 1977 and Zalmout et al. 2010

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Pongo abelii Pongo hooijeri Pongo pygmaeus Pongo tapanuliensis

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Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (4 collections), Indonesia (1), Vietnam (8)

Total: 13 collections including 16 occurrences

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