Pongo hooijeri is an extinct species of orangutan from the Pleistocene of Vietnam. It was named in honor of the paleontologist Dirk Albert Hooijer, and its fossils were found in the Tham Hai Cave. It belongs to the same genus as the living Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutans, and it shows that orangutans once ranged onto the Southeast Asian mainland well north of their present island homes. The English Wikipedia article gives only these few facts, so nothing further is claimed here.
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Pleistocene of Vietnam
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1. Paleobiology Database: Paleobiology Database taxa of Hominidae, species list
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2. Pongo hooijeri (Wikipedia)
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is an extinct species of orangutan from the Pleistocene of Vietnam
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Pleistocene of Vietnam
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extinct species of orangutan from the Pleistocene of Vietnam
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is an extinct species of orangutan from the Pleistocene of Vietnam
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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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