Ramapithecusn.
/ˌrɑːməˈpɪθᵻkəs/, U.S. /ˌrɑməˈpɪθəkəs/ Palaeontology.
A fossil anthropoid ape of the genus Ramapithecus (now included in the genus Sivapithecus), sometimes considered a hominid, and known from Miocene remains found in southern Asia and East Africa; (also) the genus itself.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > fossil or extinct types
Dryopithecus1862
Sivapithecus1915
Australopithecus1925
Proconsul1933
Ramapithecus1934
Plesianthropus1938
australopithecine1941
australopith1949
Kenyapithecus1961
ramapithecine1972
Afropithecus1986
1934 Discovery July 197/2 The other [ape], Ramapithecus, is represented by an upper jaw in which the teeth are set in a rounded V, approaching the human form.
1965 Folia Primatologica 3 90 No finds of Ramapithecus or any other dryopithecine or hominid have ever been made in the Tatrot or Pinjor zones.
1973 Listener 10 May 604/3 Some anthropologists would boldly put Ramapithecus among the hominids.
1997 P. Bellwood Prehist. Indo-Malaysian Archipel. (rev. ed.) ii. 40 Ramapithecus has been transferred out of the human lineage and into a possible ancestor for the orangutan.
Derivatives
ˌramaˈpithecine adj. and n. (a) adj. designating or relating to a fossil anthropoid ape of, or closely related to, the genus Ramapithecus; (b) n. a ramapithecine ape.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > fossil or extinct types
Dryopithecus1862
Sivapithecus1915
Australopithecus1925
Proconsul1933
Ramapithecus1934
Plesianthropus1938
australopithecine1941
australopith1949
Kenyapithecus1961
ramapithecine1972
Afropithecus1986
1972 Man 7 379 We have, as yet, little positive evidence of the ramapithecine grade.
1974 Current Anthropol. 15 429/1 The ephemeral occurrence of the ramapithecines in Eurasia and Africa, amidst a crowd of dryopithecines, suggests that they were rare strays from elsewhere.
1977 Sci. Amer. May 31/1 Kretzoi now recognizes his fossils as being ‘ramapithecine’ even if they are not generically Ramapithecus.
1995 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 24 238 The appearance of thick enameled molars in the earliest ramapithecine (Kenyapithecus).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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