Named By: | de Bonis and Melentis in 1977 |
Time Period: | Miocene |
Location: | Greece |
Size: | Unavailable |
Diet: | Herbivore |
Fossil(s): | Few specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Primates | Hominidae | |
Also known as: | | Graecopithecus freybergi | Sivapithecus macedoniensis | |
Ouranopithecus is an extinct genus of Eurasian great ape represented by two species, Ouranopithecus macedoniensis, a late Miocene (9.6-8.7 mya) hominoid from Greece and Bulgaria, and Ouranopithecus turkae, also from the late Miocene (8.7-7.4 mya) of Turkey.