Classification of Hominoidea?

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I'm familiar with the Linnaean classification of Hominoidea, wherein there
are three families - Hylobatidae (gibbons), Pongidae (great apes), and
Hominidae (humans and "ape-men"). This system obviously doesn't work in
cladistics since "Pongidae" is paraphyletic. So how *does* the cladistic
classification of Hominoidea go?

This would be my guess:

Hominoidea
_Hylobatidae
__Hylobates
__Symphalangus
_unnamed (Anthropoidea?)
__Pongidae
___Pongo
___Gigantopithecus
__Hominidae
___Gorilla
___Homininae
____Pan
____Hominini
_____Australopithecus
_____Homo

Is this far off? What about other extinct genera (Ramapithecus,
Proconsul)? Is Australopithecus paraphyletic? Should the name Paranthropus
be used for "robust australopithecines"?

Thanks in advance-

-Michael Keesey
tmkeesey@wam.umd.edu
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