Oreopithecus is an extinct primate from the Miocene epoch whose fossils have been found in today`s Tuscany and Sardinia in Italy. Oreopithecus (from the Greek ὄρος, oros and πίθηκος, pithekos, meaning `hill-ape`) existed {Mya|9|7} in the Tusco-Sardinian area when this territory was an isolated island in a chain of islands stretching......
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extinct genus of primates found as fossils in Late Miocene deposits in East Africa and Early Pliocene deposits in southern Europe (11.2 to 3.4 ... [2 related articles]
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a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
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