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- Holdings
- 35mm slide: 11303
- Date of Photo
- 1965
- World Region
- Old World
- Description
- Oreopithecus: A likely sidebranch on man's family tree, Oreopithecus is believed t ohave stood around four feet tall and weighed about 80 pounds. Its teeth and pelvis led scientists to wonder if it could be ancestral to man, but apparently it became extinct some 8 million years ago.
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- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Image Size
- 1382 x 2325
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- 428 KB
- Record
- 17080
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-17080/17080
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"Oreopithecus: A likely sidebranch on man's family tree, Oreopithecus is believed t ohave stood around four feet tall and weighed about 80 pounds. Its teeth and pelvis led scientists to wonder if it could be ancestral to man, but apparently it became extinct some 8 million years ago.". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-17080/17080. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. March 28, 2024.