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Taxonomy
Dryopithecus was named by Lartet (1856).
It was assigned to Anthropomorphae by Schlosser (1877); to Simiidae by Pilgrim (1915); to Hominoidea by Begun (1992); to Pongidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Dryopithecinae by Pilbeam et al. (1977) and Cameron (1997); and to Dryopithecini by Andrews (1992) and Begun (2002).
It was assigned to Anthropomorphae by Schlosser (1877); to Simiidae by Pilgrim (1915); to Hominoidea by Begun (1992); to Pongidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Dryopithecinae by Pilbeam et al. (1977) and Cameron (1997); and to Dryopithecini by Andrews (1992) and Begun (2002).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1856 | Dryopithecus Lartet |
| 1877 | Dryopithecus Schlosser p. 12 |
| 1915 | Dryopithecus Pilgrim p. 9 |
| 1949 | Indopithecus von Koenigswald |
| 1969 | Rudapithecus Kretzoi |
| 1977 | Dryopithecus Pilbeam et al. p. 694 |
| 1977 | Rudapithecus Pilbeam et al. p. 694 |
| 1984 | Rangwapithecus (Ataxopithecus) Kretzoi |
| 1992 | Dryopithecus Andrews p. 642 |
| 1992 | Dryopithecus Begun |
| 1997 | Dryopithecus Cameron |
| 1997 | Dryopithecus McKenna and Bell |
| 2002 | Dryopithecus Begun |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Dryopithecus Lartet 1856
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Subg. †Dryopithecus (Rangwapithecus) Andrews 1974
†Dryopithecus chinjiensis Pilgrim 1915
†Dryopithecus fontani Lartet 1856
†Dryopithecus mogharensis Fourtau 1918
Invalid names: Indopithecus von Koenigswald 1949 [synonym], Rangwapithecus (Ataxopithecus) Kretzoi 1984 [invalid subgroup], Rudapithecus Kretzoi 1969 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene | China (Yunnan) | D. keiyuanensis (42483) | |
| Burdigalian | Kenya (Northern Frontier District) | D. nyanzae (122454) | |
| MN 4 | Egypt | D. mogharensis (53970) | |
| Langhian | Kenya | D. sp. (22071) | |
| Langhian | Kenya (Nyanza) | D. sp. (21339) |