Dryopithecini is an extinct tribe of Eurasian and African great apes that are believed to be close to the ancestry of
gorilla
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chimpanzee
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human
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Members of this tribe are known as dryopithecines.
Taxonomy
* Tribe Dryopithecini
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Kenyapithecus
''Kenyapithecus wickeri'' is a fossil ape discovered by Louis Leakey in 1961 at a site called Fort Ternan in Kenya. The upper jaw and teeth were dated to 14 million years ago.
One theory states that ''Kenyapithecus'' may be the common ances ...
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*** ''Kenyapithecus wickeri''
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Danuvius''
*** ''Danuvius guggenmosi''
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Ouranopithecus''
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Ouranopithecus macedoniensis''
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Ouranopithecus turkae''
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Otavipithecus
''Otavipithecus namibiensis'' is an extinct species of ape from the Miocene of Namibia. The fossils were discovered at the Berg Aukas mines in the foothills of the Otavi mountains, hence the generic name. The species was described in 1992 by G ...
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*** ''Otavipithecus namibiensis''
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Oreopithecus''
*** ''Oreopithecus bambolii''
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Nakalipithecus''
*** ''Nakalipithecus nakayamai''
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Anoiapithecus
''Anoiapithecus'' is an extinct ape genus thought to be closely related to ''Dryopithecus''. Both genera lived during the Miocene, approximately 12 million years ago. Fossil specimens named by Salvador Moyà-Solà are known from the deposits f ...
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*** ''Anoiapithecus brevirostris''
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Dryopithecus''
*** ''Dryopithecus wuduensis''
*** ''Dryopithecus fontani''
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Hispanopithecus
''Hispanopithecus'' is a genus of apes that inhabited Europe during the Miocene epoch. It was first identified in a 1944 paper by J. F. Villalta and M. Crusafont in . Anthropologists disagree as to whether ''Hispanopithecus'' belongs to the sub ...
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*** ''Hispanopithecus laietanus''
*** ''Hispanopithecus crusafonti''
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Neopithecus''
*** ''Neopithecus brancoi''
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Pierolapithecus''
*** ''Pierolapithecus catalaunicus''
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*** ''Rudapithecus hungaricus''
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Samburupithecus''
*** ''Samburupithecus kiptalami''
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Udabnopithecus''
*** ''Udabnopithecus garedziensis''
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Griphopithecus''
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Griphopithecus alpani
''Griphopithecus alpani'' is a species of prehistoric ape from the Miocene of Turkey
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Griphopithecus suessi
''Griphopithecus suessi'' is a prehistoric species of kenyapith hominid from the Miocene of Austria and Slovakia, dated to approximately 15 million years ago. ''G. suessi'' is based on a single lower molar, with three other isolated teeth and two ...
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Graecopithecus
''Graecopithecus'' is an extinct species of hominid that lived in southeast Europe during the late Miocene around 7.2 million years ago. Originally identified by a single lower jaw bone bearing a molar tooth found in Pyrgos Vasilissis, Athens, ...
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*** ''Graecopithecus freybergi''
References
Prehistoric apes
Miocene first appearances
Miocene extinctions
Mammal tribes
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