One said it was the
dryopithecus of Java, the other said it was pithecanthropus.
William King Gregory (1922:476) opined: "Apart from a few striking cases, presently to be noted, racial characters in the teeth are at most not very conspicuous." The traits he considered variable enough to be noted included shovel-shaped incisors, upper molar cusp number, lower molar cusp number,
Dryopithecus pattern, and Carabelli's cusp.
The Chinji Formation is characterized by the presence of
Dryopithecus, Sivacanthion, Dissopsalis, Vishnucyon, Sivaelurus, Gomphotherium, Gaindatherium, Bunolistriodon, Listriodon, Tetraconodon, Hyotherium, Microstonyx, Hemimeryx, Dorcabune, Sanitherium, Giraffa, and Giraffokeryx (Pilgrim, 1911, 1913; Colbert, 1935; Matthew, 1929; Khan et al., 2008, 2009, 2010; Khan and Akhtar, 2011).
The pongid clade and the hominoid clade were thought to be descended, respectively, from the two extinct ape species
Dryopithecus and Ramapithecus.
(1993): Recent discoveries of
Dryopithecus shed new light on evolution of great apes.
Dental microwear variability on buccal tooth enamel surfaces of extant and the Miocene fossil
Dryopithecus laietanus (Hominoidea).
Como ejemplo de estos antropoides pueden citarse el
Dryopithecus, el Oreopithecus y el Ramapithecus.
Scientists excavating a site in Spain have found a 9.5-million-year-old, nearly complete skeleton of an extinct ape known as
Dryopithecus. The discovery affords a rare look at how bodily features needed for climbing, hanging, and swinging in trees evolved in ancient apes.
The description and study of these remains, currently under way, will hopefully enable to ascertain whether they correspond to any of the other dryopithecin taxa recorded at Abocador de Can Mata (Pierolapithecus, Anoiapithecus,
Dryopithecus) or to another, otherwise unrecorded hominid taxon.
Dryopithecus, an extinct ape that lived in western and southern Europe between about 9 million and 12 million years ago, finds itself embroiled in a scientific tug-of-war over its evolutionary affiliations.
(2007b): Paleoenvironment of
Dryopithecus brancoi at Rudabanya, Hungary: Evidence from dental meso- and micro-wear analyses of large vegetarian mammals.