Also known as Terrible apes
Dinopithecus ("terrible ape") is an extinct genus of medium to large sized cercopithecoid primates, closely related to baboons, that lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in South Africa and Ethiopia. It was named by British paleontologist Robert Broom in 1937. The only species currently recognized is Dinopithecus ingens, as D. quadratirostris has been reassigned to the genus Soromandrillus. It is known from several infilled cave sites in South Africa, all of early Pleistocene age, including Skurweberg, Swartkrans (Member 1), and Sterkfontein (Member 4 or 5, but probably member 4).
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- Dinopithecus ingens cranium (SK 599), DNMNH archive.png
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恐狒屬（學名：Dinopithecus，意思為「恐怖的猿猴」）是已滅絕的大型狒狒，生存於上新世至更新世的南非，是由蘇格蘭古生物學家於1937進行發表與命名。恐狒屬下目前已知的物種為Dinopithecus ingens，而原屬於恐狒屬的D. quadratirostris則重新被分配至Soromandrillus屬之下。恐狒屬的化石多發現於南非地層年代為更新世早期的洞穴化石遺址之中，包括Skurweberg、及洞穴。
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