Rudapithecus

Rudapithecus
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Tribe: Dryopithecini
Genus: Rudapithecus
Kretzoi, 19695
Species: R. hungaricus[1]
Binomial name
Rudapithecus hungaricus

Rudapithecus hungaricus was a large bodied ape which inhabited Europe during the late Miocene, approximately 10 million years ago.[2]

References

  1. Laszlo Kordos (1987). "Description and reconstruction of the skull of Rudapithecus hungaricus Kretzoi (Mammalia)". Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici. Hungarian Natural History Museum. 79. ISSN 0521-4726. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  2. Begun, David (2009). "Dryopithecins, Darwin, de Bonis, and the European origin of the African apes and human clade". Geodiversitas. 3 (1): 789–816.


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