ouranopithecus การใช้

• "G . freybergi " is considered as being perhaps the same as " Ouranopithecus macedoniensis ".
• Species close to the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans may be represented by " Nakalipithecus " fossils found in Kenya and " Ouranopithecus " found in Greece.
• The evolutionary importance of " Nakalipithecus " is twofold : first, together with " Ouranopithecus " it provides evidence that the Homininae lineages of today diverged no earlier than some 8 million years ago.
• It can therefore be considered a basal member of the Homininae, before they split up into the three lineages alive today . " Nakalipithecus " also resembles the genus " Ouranopithecus ", another prehistoric hominid species found in present-day Greece.
• Because of this mixture of primitive and derived traits in the KNM-SH 8531 specimen, it has been proposed that " Samburupithecus " lived before the gorilla-chimpanzee-hominin split and, therefore, that it is a common ancestor to these primates alongside " Ouranopithecus ".
• The subfamily Homininae can be further subdivided into three branches : the tribe Gorillini ( gorillas ), and the tribe Hominini with subtribes basal member of this clade, as is, perhaps, its contemporary " Ouranopithecus "; that is, they are not assignable to any of the three extant branches.