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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 ...
Dryopithecus, genus of extinct ape that is representative of early members of the lineage that includes humans and other apes. Although Dryopithecus has been known by a variety of names based upon fragmentary material found over a widespread area including Europe, Africa, and Asia, it appears.
26 paź 2019 · Dryopithecus was lacking in most characteristics that distinguish humans and current ape species. Their canine teeth were larger than those in humans, however, they were not as well developed as those of present-day apes.
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) .
1 cze 2006 · BY THE END of the Middle Miocene, roughly 13 million years ago, we have evidence for great apes in Eurasia, notably Lartet's fossil great ape, Dryopithecus, in Europe and Sivapithecus in Asia...
6 lis 2019 · The 11.62-million-year-old Danuvius is a great ape that is dentally most similar to Dryopithecus and other European late Miocene apes.
3 sie 2010 · One of the first fossil apes ever described, this genus was known mostly from isolated dental remains until work in the 1990s uncovered partial skeletons of Dryopithecus in Spain and Hungary. These specimens confirmed that this ape shared advanced suspensory adaptations with modern great apes.
