Pierolapithecus
= Pierolapithecus
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= Pierolapithecus catalaunicus
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A <Miocene> fossil ape with a mosaic of trunk and hand characters. Its informative anatomy does not uniquely identify it as the <Pan>–<Homo> <last common ancestor>. <Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a new Middle Miocene great ape from Spain by Salvador Moyà-Solà and others>[Science 306, pp. 1339–1344; orthograde trunk and contrasting hand morphology]{ref}