| Griphopithecus suessi Temporal range: Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Superfamily: | Hominoidea |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Genus: | †Griphopithecus |
| Species: | †G. suessi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Griphopithecus suessi Abel, 1902
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Griphopithecus suessi (or Griphopithecus darwini) is a prehistoric species of hominid from the Miocene of Austria and Slovakia,1 dated to approximately 15 million years ago.2 G. suessi is based on a single lower molar, with three other isolated teeth and two fragmentary pieces of postcrania referred to it.3 Austriacopithecus is a synonym.4
G. suessi has an estimated mean body weight of 48 kg (106 lb), similar to that observed in the common chimpanzee.2
References
References
- Kordos L. (2000). "New results of Hominoid research in the Carpathian Basin". Acta Biologica Szegediensis. 44 (1–4): 71–74.
- David W. Cameron (2004). Hominid Adaptations and Extinctions. UNSW Press. pp. 76, 89, 100. ISBN 978-0-86840-716-6. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- Walter Carl Hartwig (11 April 2002). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press. pp. 344–345. Bibcode:2002prfr.book.....H. ISBN 978-0-521-66315-1. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- Casanovas-Vilar, Isaac; Alba, David M.; Garcés, Miguel; Robles, Josep M.; Moyà-Solà, Salvador (5 April 2011). "Updated chronology for the Miocene hominoid radiation in Western Eurasia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108 (14): 5554–5559. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.5554C. doi:10.1073/pnas.1018562108. PMC 3078397. PMID 21436034.