Jülide Kubat, Ryan Paterson, Ioannis Patramanis, Graeme Barker, Fabrice Demeter, Arnaud Filoux, Ottmar Kullmer, Meaghan Mackie, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Sytha Pheng, Jessica Rippengal, Friedemann Schrenk, Viengkeo Souksavatdy, Lim Tze Tshen, Athiwat Wattanapituksakul, Wei Wang, Clément Zanolli, Enrico Cappellini, Anne-Marie Bacon
Pleistocene Pongo teeth show substantial variation in size and morphology, fueling taxonomic debates about the paleodiversity of the genus. We investigated prominent features of the enamel-dentine-junction junction (EDJ)-phylogenetically informative internal structures-of 71 fossil Pongo lower molars from various sites by applying geometric morphometrics and conducted paleoproteomic analyses from enamel proteins to attempt to identify extinct orangutan species. Forty-three orangutan lower molars representing Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii were included for comparison...
2023: PloS One