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  • Dryopithecus is one of 40 genera representing up to 100 species of extinct apes that lived during the Miocene (22.5 to5.5 million years ago). The fossils of Dryopithecus have been found in the region ranging from Spain to the Republic of Georgia. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Dryopithecus]

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