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Dryopithecus

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genus dryopithecusnoun	genus of old world hominoids; miocene and pliocene

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genus dryopithecusnoun	genus of old world hominoids; miocene and pliocene
danuvius guggenmosi	an extinct species of great ape that lived 11.6 million years ago during the Middle–Late Miocene in southern Germany.
sahelanthropus	an extinct genus of hominid dated to about during the Late Miocene.
graecopithecus	an extinct genus of hominid that lived in southeast Europe during the late Miocene around 7.2 million years ago.
australopithecusnoun	Synonym of australopith.
ardipithecus	a genus of an extinct hominine that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene epochs in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia.
australopithecus afarensis	an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa.
chororapithecus	an extinct great ape from the Afar region of Ethiopia roughly 8 million years ago during the Late Miocene, comprising one species, C. abyssinicus.
dryopithecidnoun	(zoology) Any extinct hominid in the family Dryopithecidae, now considered to be the tribe Dryopitheciini or the subfamily Dryopithecinae.
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.
proailurus	an extinct felid genus that lived in Europe and Asia approximately 25-30.8 million years ago in the Late Oligocene and Miocene.
proconsulnoun	(in ancient Rome) A magistrate who served as a consul and then as the governor of a province.
australopithecus africanus	an extinct species of australopithecine which lived between about 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of South Africa.
gigantopithecus	an extinct genus of ape that lived in southern China from 2 million to approximately 300,000-200,000 years ago during the Early to Middle Pleistocene, represented by one species, Gigantopithecus blacki.
agriotherium	an extinct genus of bears whose fossils are found in Miocene through Pleistocene-aged strata of North America, Eurasia, and Africa.
oreopithecus	(from the Greek , and , , meaning "hill-ape") an extinct genus of hominoid primate from the Miocene epoch whose fossils have been found in today's Tuscany and Sardinia in Italy.
homo rudolfensis	an extinct species of archaic human from the Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2 million years ago (mya).
ardipithecus ramidus	a species of australopithecine from the Afar region of Early Pliocene Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago (mya).
paranthropus aethiopicus	an extinct species of robust australopithecine from the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of East Africa about 2.7–2.3 million years ago.
australopithecus garhi	a species of australopithecine from the Bouri Formation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia 2.6–2.5 million years ago (mya) during the Early Pleistocene.