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Dinopithecus
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<p><i>Dinopithecus</i> ("terrible monkey") is an extinct genus of very large primates, closely related to <a href="/facts/Baboons/qz7J3AoC">baboons</a>, that lived during the <a href="/facts/Pliocene/MjcIVQ86">Pliocene</a> and <a href="/facts/Pleistocene/0ya9eUp5">Pleistocene</a> epochs in <a href="/facts/South_Africa/vvXQpLgq">South Africa</a> and <a href="/facts/Ethiopia/LVujNp5v">Ethiopia</a>. It was named by British paleontologist <a href="/facts/Robert_Broom/y6TQ8JC9">Robert Broom</a> in <a href="/facts/1937/BUX8Hwbf">1937</a>. The only species currently recognized is <i>Dinopithecus ingens</i>, as <i>D. quadratirostris</i> has been reassigned to the genus <i>Soromandrillus.</i> It is known from several infilled cave sites in <a href="/facts/South_Africa/vvXQpLgq">South Africa</a>, all of early Pleistocene age, including Skurweberg, <a href="/facts/Swartkrans/lRrw70xV">Swartkrans</a> (Member 1), and <a href="/facts/Sterkfontein/xDLb2DQk">Sterkfontein</a> (Member 4 or 5, but probably member 4). </p>