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Definition of: Oreopithecus
(ôr′ē·ō·pith′ə·kəs, ō′rē-) noun
A primate of the Miocene or Pliocene epochs, identified in 1872 from a group of fossilized bones discovered in brown coal deposits in Tuscany: of uncertain evolutionary rank but possibly ancestral to the hominid family. Also called mountain ape. [<NL <Gk. oros, oreos a mountain + pithēkos an ape]
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