Pliobates

{{Short description|Extinct genus of primates}}

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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|11.6}}

| image = Pliobates fossils and reconstruction.webp

| image_caption = Pliobates fossils and reconstruction

| display_parents = 3

| genus = Pliobates

| parent_authority = Alba et al. 2015

| species = cataloniae

| authority = Alba et al. 2015

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File:Pliobates mouthparts.webp

Pliobates cataloniae is a primate from 11.6 million years ago, during the Iberian Miocene.{{Cite journal |last1=Bouchet |first1=Florian |last2=Urciuoli |first2=Alessandro |last3=Beaudet |first3=Amélie |last4=Pina |first4=Marta |last5=Moyà-Solà |first5=Salvador |last6=Alba |first6=David M. |date=2021-12-01 |title=Comparative anatomy of the carotid canal in the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248421001251 |journal=Journal of Human Evolution |volume=161 |pages=103073 |doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103073 |pmid=34628300 |bibcode=2021JHumE.16103073B |issn=0047-2484|hdl=2263/82958 |hdl-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Urciuoli |first1=Alessandro |last2=Zanolli |first2=Clément |last3=Bouchet |first3=Florian |last4=Almécija |first4=Sergio |last5=Moyà-Solà |first5=Salvador |last6=Alba |first6=David M |date=2022 |title=Semicircular canal morphology of the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae: Phylogenetic implications |url=https://rgdoi.net/10.13140/RG.2.2.34937.34409 |journal=American Journal of Biological Anthropology |language=en |volume=77 |pages=187 |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.34937.34409}} Originally described as a species of stem-ape that was found to be the sister taxon to gibbons and great apes like humans,{{cite journal | last1=Alba | first1=David M. | last2=Almécija | first2=Sergio | last3=DeMiguel | first3=Daniel | last4=Fortuny | first4=Josep | last5=de los Rios | first5=Miriam Pérez | last6=Pina | first6=Marta | last7=Robles | first7=Josep M. | last8=Moyà-Solà | first8=Salvador | title=Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution | journal=Science | date=30 October 2015 | volume=350 | issue=6260 | pages=aab2625 | doi=10.1126/science.aab2625 | pmid=26516285| bibcode=2015Sci...350.2625A | doi-access=free }} it was subsequently reinterpreted as a non-ape catarrhine belonging to the group Crouzeliidae within the superfamily Pliopithecoidea on the basis of discovery of new dental remains with crouzeliid synapomorphies.{{Cite journal|last1=Bouchet |first1=Florian |last2=Zanolli |first2=Clément |last3=Urciuoli |first3=Alessandro |last4=Almécija |first4=Sergio |last5=Fortuny |first5=Josep |last6=Robles |first6=Josep M. |last7=Beaudet |first7=Amélie |last8=Moyà-Solà |first8=Salvador |last9=Alba |first9=David M. |year=2024 |title=The Miocene primate Pliobates is a pliopithecoid |journal=Nature Communications |volume=15 |issue=1 |at=2822 |doi=10.1038/s41467-024-47034-9 |pmid=38561329 |pmc=10984959 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2024NatCo..15.2822B }}