Species Profile
Dryopithecus africanus
Extict Ape
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Dryopithecus lived during the Miocene epoch.
Fossils were found in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
It is important in understanding primate evolution.
Size & Structure
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Medium-sized ape
02
Long arms
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No tail
04
Likely arboreal
Dryopithecus africanus — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Moderately developed cerebrum
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Homeothermic
- Circulatory type
- Closed, double, complete
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Forest-dwelling primate
Fruit eater
Early hominoid radiation
Economic Importance
Fossil evidence for ape evolution
Important in human ancestry studies
Museum and paleontological research