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Dinopithecus
Temporal range: Pliocene–Pleistocene
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Dinopithecus ingens skull.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Primates
Suborder:
Haplorhini
Infraorder:
Simiiformes
Family:
Cercopithecidae
Subfamily:
Cercopithecinae
Tribe:
Papionini
Genus:
†Dinopithecus Broom, 1937
Species:
†D. ingens
Binomial name
†Dinopithecus ingens
Broom, 1937
Dinopithecus ("terrible ape") is an extinct genus of very large primates closely related to the baboon, that lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in South Africa and Ethiopia.[1][2] It was named by British paleontologist Robert Broom in 1937.[3] The only species currently recognized is Dinopithecus ingens, as D. quadratirostris has been reassigned to the genus Soromandrillus.[4] It is known from several infilled cave sites in South Africa, all of early Pleistocene age, including Skurweberg, Swartkrans (Member 1), and Sterkfontein (Member 4 or 5, but probably member 4).[1][2][5]
^ abFreedman, Leonard (1957). "The fossil Cercopithecoidea of South Africa". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 23: 121–257.
^ abSzalay, Frederick S.; Delson, Eric (1979). Evolutionary history of the primates. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0126801509. OCLC 5008038.
^Broom R. (1937). On some new Pleistocene mammals from limestone caves of the Transvaal. S Afr J Sci33, 750-768.
^Gilbert, Christopher C. (May 2013). "Cladistic analysis of extant and fossil African papionins using craniodental data". Journal of Human Evolution. 64 (5): 399–433. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.01.013. PMID 23490264.
^Delson, Eric (1984). "Cercopithecid biochronology of the African Plio-Pleistocene: correlation among eastern and southern hominid-bearing localities". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg. 69: 199–218.
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