Biology:Bunopithecus
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Short description: Genus of apes
| Bunopithecus Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hylobatidae |
| Genus: | †Bunopithecus Matthew & Granger, 1923 |
| Species: | †B. sericus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Bunopithecus sericus Matthew & Granger, 1923
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Bunopithecus is an extinct genus of primate represented by one species, Bunopithecus sericus, a gibbon or gibbon-like ape. Its remains were first discovered in Sichuan, China , in strata from the Middle Pleistocene.[1]
Although the three hoolock gibbon species were once included in the genus Bunopithecus, they have recently been removed and B. sericus remains as the only known species of this genus.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mootnick, A.; Groves, C. P. (2005). "A new generic name for the hoolock gibbon (Hylobatidae)". International Journal of Primatology 26 (4): 971–976. doi:10.1007/s10764-005-5332-4. Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20110927140841/http://www.gibboncenter.org/publications/Hoolock%20Generic%20Name.pdf.
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