Pliopithecus

…have yielded such fossils as Pliopithecus, once thought to be related to gibbons but now known to be primitive and long separated from them. Closer to the modern apes are Proconsul, Afropithecus, Dryopithecus, and Sivapithecus, the latter being a possible

Remains of the best-known genus, Pliopithecus, from the Czech Republic have provided a remarkably complete picture of the habits of this group, which, on this evidence, appears to have possessed bodily forms of a tailed quadruped retaining numerous characteristics of New World monkeys. Long considered to be ancestral gibbons, the…

…distantly related to the gibbons, Pliopithecus, was found in the Miocene rocks of Europe. The dryopithecines, a group of advanced humanlike apes that probably represent the stock from which modern apes and humans originated, are also found in Europe’s Miocene rocks and are present in the Miocene strata of Africa…