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Ouranopithecus
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<p><i>Ouranopithecus</i> is a genus of extinct Eurasian great ape represented by two species, <i><a href="/facts/Ouranopithecus_macedoniensis/YD0Hj2ef">Ouranopithecus macedoniensis</a></i>, a late <a href="/facts/Miocene/cBRRzq4g">Miocene</a> (9.6–8.7 mya) <a href="/facts/Hominoid/QdTk4pko">hominoid</a> from <a href="/facts/Greece/lqHw8bTB">Greece</a> and <i><a href="/facts/Ouranopithecus_turkae/tLsPYzlL">Ouranopithecus turkae</a></i>, also from the late Miocene (8.7–7.4 mya) of Turkey. </p><p>The first specimen <i>O. macedoniensis</i> was discovered by French palaeontologists Louis de Bonis and Jean Melentis in 1977, and <i>O. turkae</i> by Turkish team led by Erksin Savaş Güleç in 2007. For a long time it was considered as similar (<a href="/facts/Synonym_(taxonomy)/BHLdox7E">synonymous</a>) to <i><a href="/facts/Graecopithecus/wdrNJfB0">Graecopithecus</a></i> and member of the genus <i><a href="/facts/Sivapithecus/oNX6KTrM">Sivapithecus</a>,</i> which more discoveries proved otherwise. </p>