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Dryopithecus is a genus of extinct great apes from the middle–late Miocene boundary of Europe 12.5 to 11.1 million years ago (mya). Since its discovery in 1856, the genus has been subject to taxonomic turmoil, with numerous new species being described from single remains based on minute differences amongst each other, and the fragmentary nature of the holotype specimen makes differentiating ...
Dryopithecus is found as fossils in Miocene and Pliocene deposits (23 to 2.6 million years old) and apparently originated in Africa. Several distinct forms of Dryopithecus are known, including small, medium, and large, gorilla-sized animals.
The phylogenetic evidence indicates that Dryopithecus is probably more closely related to the African apes and humans than is Sivapithecus. When compared closely to living forms, Dryopithecus shares more with gorillas.
7 maj 2021 · In 1965, Simons and Pilbeam revised and organized available Miocene apes in three genera: Dryopithecus, Gigantopithecus, and Ramapithecus. The genus Sivapithecus was included in Dryopithecus, considered the ancestor of African apes, whereas Ramapithecus was considered ancestral to humans based on its short face (and inferred small canines) .
11 sty 1996 · We report here the recent discovery of an extraordinary partial skeleton of Dryopithecus laietanus from Can Llobateres (Spain). It provides evidence that orthograde postures and locomotion ...
6 lis 2019 · We propose ELC as a new model of the ancestral mode of positional behaviour of the last common ancestor of living great apes and humans. ELC is a precursor to obligate bipedalism, which shifts the...
7 paź 1993 · We report here the recent discovery of a facial skeleton and a temporal fragment with the petrosal bone of Dryopithecus laietanus, which provides a way out of an impasse.
