Oreopithecus
"Oreopithecus is an extinct hominoid primate from the Miocene epoch whose fossils have been found in today's Tuscany and Sadinia in Italy; (from the Greek ὄρος, oros and πίθηκος, pithekos, meaning "hill-ape"). It existed 9 to 7 million years ago in the Tusco-Sardinian area when this region was an isolated island in a chain of islands stretching from central Europe to northern Africa in what was becoming the Mediterranean Sea."
- Text from Wikipedia entry for "Oreopithecus" (accessed 11/15/2015)
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- "Oreopithecus: A Human Child’s Jaw in Coal?" (Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, 7/25/2007)
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