Abstract Currently restricted to Southeast Asia and Africa, extant hominoids are the remnants
of a group that was much more diverse during the Miocene. Apes initially diversified in Africa …

For much of their history, fossil apes retained many monkey-like features in posture and
body structure. They also occupied a range of habitats, of which tropical forest was only a …

Extant apes (Primates: Hominoidea) are the relics of a group that was much more diverse in
the past. They originated in Africa around the Oligocene/Miocene boundary, but by the …

Living hominoids are distinguished by upright torsos and versatile locomotion. It is
hypothesized that these features evolved for feeding on fruit from terminal branches in …

The land mammal record of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia, NE Spain) ranges from
the early Miocene (Ramblian) to the late Miocene (Turolian), that is from about 20 to 7 Ma …

Abstract The Abocador de Can Mata (ACM) composite stratigraphic sequence (els Hostalets
de Pierola, Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) has yielded a diverse primate …

Substantial differences among the pelves of anthropoids have been central to interpretations
of the selection pressures that shaped extant hominoids, yet the evolution of the hominoid …

Very few remains of elapid snakes are known from the Iberian Peninsula, but these include
a probable endemic extinct species of cobra, Naja iberica from the Late Miocene. We here …

During the last decade, new discoveries in several Iberian basins, together with the
description of previously unpublished finds, have significantly increased the recorded …

The Vallès-Penedès Basin (Catalonia, Spain) is a classical area for the study of the Miocene
land mammal faunas and includes one of the densest and most continuous records in …