Dryopithecus

Dry·o·pith·e·cus

D5418750 (drī′ə-pĭth′ĭ-kəs)n. A genus of extinct apes known from Miocene and Pliocene fossil remains found in Africa and Eurasia and believed to be ancestral to the living great apes, including humans.

[New Latin Dryopithēcus, genus name : Greek drūs, oak (in reference to the apes' arboreal lifestyle and to the fossil remains of oak found in the same area as some of the first known specimens of the genus); see deru- in Indo-European roots + Greek pithēkos, ape.]

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Dryopithecus - genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocenegenus Dryopithecusmammal genus - a genus of mammalsfamily Hominidae, Hominidae - modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of mandryopithecine - considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humansDryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus, rudapithecus - fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene

Dryopithecus

(drī'ōpəthē`kəs, –pĭth`əkəs), an extinct group of apes. Fossils about 20 million years old have been found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Dryopithecus had a semierect posture and is generally believed to be ancestral to modern apes and man. ProconsulProconsul,
extinct group of apes. Proconsul fossils have been discovered in E Africa. It had a mixture of ape and Old World monkey characteristics, and lived from 23 to 25 million years ago.
..... Click the link for more information. , a group of fossil apes that may have been the ancestor of the chimpanzee, is considered by some authorities to be a subgroup of Dryopithecus.

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noun genus of Old World hominoids

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