Buronius is an extinct genus of hominid from the late Miocene Hammerschmiede clay pit of Bavaria, Germany. The genus contains a single species, B. manfredschmidi, known from two partial teeth and a patella. Buronius may represent the smallest known hominid. The more well-known great ape Danuvius is known from the same locality.
Buronius is an extinct genus of hominid from the late Miocene Hammerschmiede clay pit of Bavaria, Germany. The genus contains a single species, B. manfredschmidi, known from two partial teeth and a patella. Buronius may represent the smallest known hominid. The more well-known great ape Danuvius is known from the same locality.
== Discovery and naming == The Buronius holotype specimen, GPIT/MA/13005, was discovered in 2011 in sediments of the Hammerschmiede clay pit (HAM 5 level) near Pforzen in the Allgäu region of Bavaria, Germany. The holotype consists of a second molar crown without a root. A fragment of the fourth premolar (GPIT/MA/13004), discovered in 2017, and a left patella (GPIT/MA/10007), also discovered in 2011 near the holotype, were both assigned as paratypes.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).