Indopithecus
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| Gigantopthecus giganteus Temporal range: Miocene
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| Species: | †G. giganteus
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Gigantopithecus giganteus is a large extinct species of ape that lived in what is now India. This animal is known only from teeth and jawbones[1]. Based on the slim fossil finds, it was a large, ground-dwelling herbivore that ate primarily bamboo and foliage. It was approximately half the size of its Chinese relative, Gigantopithecus blacki.
Also a recent fossil was found (2000) with a another fossil of a different species inside of it (the specimen has yet to be identified) which poses that they might have been carnivores.
References
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7525060.stm (as Gigantapithecus)
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