Morotopithecus bishopi is a fossil ape discovered in Miocene deposits at Moroto in Uganda, dated to more than 20.6 million years ago. Its evolutionary status is debated: some analyses make it more derived than Proconsul, Afropithecus and Kenyapithecus but less than Oreopithecus, Sivapithecus and Dryopithecus, which would make it a sister of the living great apes. Others find its teeth and skull close to Afropithecus and suggest the two may be one genus, and one author treated it as synonymous with Afropithecus. It appears to have lived in wooded grassland and ate mainly leaves.
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Moroto, Uganda
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Morotopithecus is a genus of fossil ape discovered in Miocene-age deposits of Moroto, Uganda
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It appears to have lived in wooded grassland, and had a diet dominated by leaves.
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Moroto, Uganda
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It appears to have lived in wooded grassland
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Morotopithecus is a genus of fossil ape discovered in Miocene-age deposits of Moroto, Uganda
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It appears to have lived in wooded grassland
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In addition to the extant species and subspecies, archaeologists, paleontologists, and anthropologists have discovered and classified numerous extinct great ape species as below, based on the taxonomy shown.
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