Gigantopithecus
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phylum | Chordata | Gigantopithecus is an extinct genus of ape from the Early to Middle Pleistocene of southern China, represented by one species, Gigantopithecus blacki. Potential identifications have also been made in Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. The first remains of Gigantopithecus, two third molar teeth, were identified in a drugstore by anthropologist Ralph von Koenigswald in 1935, who subsequently described the ape. In 1956, the first mandible and more than 1,000 teeth were found in Liucheng, and numerous more remains have since been found in at least 16 sites.
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class | Mammalia | |
infraclass | Eutheria | |
order | Primates | |
family | Hominidae | |
genus | †Gigantopithecus | |
Temporal range | Early–Middle Pleistocene |