The primate " Pliopithecus " first appears during MN 5.
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Overall similarities to Pliopithecus may indicate a similar habit, possibly suspensory quadrupedalism like that seen in the Howler monkey.
3.
"Pliopithecus "'had a similar size and form to modern gibbons, to which it may be related, although it is probably not a direct ancestor.
4.
Nearly all of what is known about the body proportions and post-cranial morphology of this family are derived from " Pliopithecus vindobonensis ", as it is the only species for which a complete skeleton has been found.
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The crania of " P . vindobonesis ", " Laccopithecus robustus ", " Pliopithecus zhanxiangi ", and " Anapithecus hernyaki " demonstrate that pliopithecoids had relatively large and globular braincases with a projecting snout.
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In the mid-twentieth century, paleontologists Johannes H�rzeler and Helmuth Zapfe reinvigorated interest in the pliopithecoids with a series of publications in which they named a number of new species, including " Pliopithecus vindobonensis ", which consists of the most complete cranial and post-cranial pliopithecoid specimens ever discovered.
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