Pongidae

Japanese: Pongidae

...A general term for apes that lived in geological times and remain as fossils. Taxonomically, fossil apes are included in the Pongidae family of apes along with the current great apes gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans, and are grouped together with the Gibbons and Hominidae in the superfamily Hominoidea. Based on fossils known to date, it appears that the gibbon lineage of Pliopithecinae and the ape lineage had already diverged around the middle Oligocene (about 30 million years ago).

From 【Apes】

…A general term for mammals belonging to the order Primates, suborder Anthropoid, superfamily Hominoidea, family Pongidae. In English, it is called anthropoid or ape, but the latter means a monkey without a tail, and can also be applied to monkeys with extremely short tails such as black macaques and Barbary monkeys.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Pongidae" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…地質時代に生息し，化石として残されている類人猿の総称。化石類人猿は，分類学的には現存の大型類人猿であるゴリラ，チンパンジー，オランウータンとともに類人猿科Pongidaeに含まれており，テナガザル科やヒト科といっしょにヒト上科としてまとめられている。現在までに知られている化石から判断して，漸新世の中期ごろ(約3000万年前)にはすでに，テナガザル系統のプリオピテクス類Pliopithecinaeと類人猿系統は分岐していたらしい。…