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
The chimpanzee (; ''Pan troglodytes''), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of Hominidae, great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed one. When its close rel ...
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human
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus ''Homo''. They are Hominidae, great apes characterized by their Prehistory of nakedness and clothing ...
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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 ancest ...
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*** ''Danuvius guggenmosi''
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Ouranopithecus
''Ouranopithecus'' is a genus of extinct Eurasian great ape represented by two species, '' Ouranopithecus macedoniensis'', a late Miocene (9.6–8.7 mya) hominoid from Greece and '' Ouranopithecus turkae'', also from the late Miocene (8.7–7.4 ...
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Ouranopithecus macedoniensis
''Ouranopithecus macedoniensis'' is a prehistoric species of ''Ouranopithecus'' from the Late Miocene of Greece. This species is known from three localities in Northern Greece. The first specimen of ''Ouranopithecus macedoniensis'' with upper decid ...
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Ouranopithecus turkae
''Ouranopithecus turkae'' is a prehistoric species of ''Ouranopithecus'' from the Late Miocene of Turkey.
This is known from the Corakyerler locality, Çankırı Province, central Anatolia. It is known only from three cranial fossils. Dated faun ...
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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'' (from the Greek , and , , meaning "hill-ape") is an extinct genus of ape from the Miocene epoch whose fossils have been found in today's Tuscany and Sardinia in Italy. It existed 9–7 million years ago in the Tusco-Sardinian a ...
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*** ''Oreopithecus bambolii''
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Nakalipithecus
''Nakalipithecus nakayamai'', sometimes referred to as the Nakali ape, is an extinct species of great ape from Nakali, Kenya from about 9.9–9.8 million years ago during the Late Miocene. It is known from a right jawbone with 3 molars and fro ...
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*** ''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'' 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 b ...
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*** ''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 subfa ...
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*** ''Hispanopithecus laietanus''
*** ''Hispanopithecus crusafonti''
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Pierolapithecus
''Pierolapithecus catalaunicus'' is an extinct species of primate which lived around 12.5-13 million years ago during the Miocene in what is now Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia, Spain. Some researchers believe that it is a candidate for common ...
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*** ''Pierolapithecus catalaunicus''
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*** ''Rudapithecus hungaricus''
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Samburupithecus
''Samburupithecus'' is an extinct primate that lived in Kenya during the middle to late Miocene. The one species in this genus, ''Samburupithecus kiptalami'', is known only from a maxilla fragment dated to 9.5 million years ago discovered in 198 ...
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*** ''Samburupithecus kiptalami''
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Griphopithecus
''Griphopithecus'' is a prehistoric ape from the Miocene of Turkey and Central Europe.
Description
''Griphopithecus'' has been consistently grouped with stem hominoids. The material therefore indicates the range of hominoid locomotor anatomy i ...
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Griphopithecus alpani''
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Griphopithecus suessi''
References
Homininae
Prehistoric apes
Miocene first appearances
Miocene extinctions
Mammal tribes
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