DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15137564
title: TABLE 6 in The Late Miocene hominoid Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Bonis, Bouvrain, Geraads & Melentis, 1974): maxillary deciduous dentition and virtual reconstruction of the unerupted permanent teeth

description: TABLE 6. — Summary of the main differences between the upper deciduous teeth of extant and extinct hominids compared to Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Bonis, Bouvrain, Geraads & Melentis, 1974).
TaxondC 1dP 3dP 4Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Bonis, Bouvrain, Geraads & Melentis, 1974)Small and low crownedTrapezoidal occlusal outlineSubsquared occlusal outlineRounded occlusal outlineSmall parastyleLow cuspsReduced relative to the length of the premolars rowPresence of metaconeMetacone is the larger cusp–Trace of a hypoconeNo cingulumTwo pillars on the lingual wallNo cingulum–No buccal cingulum––Gorilla gorilla (Savage, 1847)Larger sizeLarger sizeLarger size and higher cuspsHigh-crownedSubtriangular occlusal outlineLess squared occlusal outlineElliptical occlusal outlineLarger parastyleStrong cingulumFlattened buccal wallAbsence of metacone–Larger relative to the length of the deciduous premolars rowPresence of cingulum–Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus, 1760)Larger sizeSimilar sizeSimilar size and high-crownedHigh-crownedSubtriangular occlusal outlineRelatively smaller metaconeElliptical occlusal outlineLarger parastylePresence of cingulumFlattened buccal wallAbsence of metacone and hypocone–Larger relative to the length of the deciduous premolars rowPresence of cingulum–Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)Smaller sizeSmaller sizeSmaller sizeHigh-crownedSubtriangular occlusal outlineHigher cuspsElliptical occlusal outlineAbsence of metacone and hypoconePresence of cingulumFlattened buccal wallPresence of weak cingulum–Larger relative to the length of the deciduous premolars row––Homo Linnaeus, 1758Smaller sizeSmaller sizeSmaller sizeSlightly larger relative to the length of premolarS rowNo parastyleMore squared occlusal outline–More squared occlusal outline–Proconsul meswae Harrison & Andrews, 2009Smaller sizeSmaller sizeSmaller sizeHigh-crownedTriangular occlusal outlineLess squared occlusal outlineSubrounded occlusal outlineAbsence of metaconePresence of cingulumNarrow lingual cingulumLarger parastyle–One pillar on the lingual wallPresence of cingulum–Ekembo heseloni (Walker, Teadford, Martin & Andrews, 1933)Smaller sizeSmaller sizeSmaller sizeElliptical crown outlineSubtriangular occlusal coutlineSubtriangular occlusal outline–Absence of metacone–Larger relative to the length of the deciduous premolars rowLarger parastylePresence of cingulum–Presence of cingulum–Griphopithecus alpani (Tekkaya, 1974)–Smaller sizeSmaller size–Triangular-subtriangular occlusal outlineLess squared occlusal outline––Presence of cingulum–Absence of metacone––Presence of cingulum–Hispanopithecus laietanus Comella & Crusafont-Pairó, 1944Smaller sizeSmaller sizeSmaller sizeElliptical occlusal outlineSubtriangular occlusal coutlineSubtriangular occlusal coutlineLarger relative to the length of the premolarS rowAbsence of metaconePresence of lingual cingulum–Larger parastyle–Presence of a distolingual basin-like groovePresence of cingulum–Rudapithecus hungaricus (Kretzoi, 1969)–Smaller sizeSmaller size–Subrectangular occlusal outline (MD<BL)Subrectangular occlusal outline (MD<BL)–Larger parastylePresence of cingulum–Absence of metacone––Presence of cingulum–Lufengpithecus lufengensis––Smaller sizeXu, Lu, Pan, Qi, Zhan & Zheng, 1978––Weaker hypocone––Subrectangular occlusal outline (MD<BL)––Presence of cingulumAustralopithecus afarensis Johanson, White & Coppens, 1978Slightly longer and narrowerSimilar sizeSlightly largerSubrounded occlusal outlineMore squared occlusal outlineSimilar morphology–Larger hypoconePresence of mesiolingual–Smaller parastylecingulum in KNM-AL 333-86–Presence of weak lingual cingulum in–KNM-AL 333-86Australopithecus africanus Dart, 1925 (Taung skull)SmallerSimilar sizeSlightly smallerRounded occlusal outlineSmaller parastylePresence of a crest connecting the hypocone with the mesial margin
description: Published as part of Koufos, George D., Plastiras, Christos-Alexandros, David, Constantine N. & Sagris, Dimitrios, 2023, The Late Miocene hominoid Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Bonis, Bouvrain, Geraads & Melentis, 1974): maxillary deciduous dentition and virtual reconstruction of the unerupted permanent teeth, pp. 683-684 in Comptes Rendus Palevol 22 (33) on page 683, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2023v22a33, http://zenodo.org/record/10118220