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Archaeopithecus

noun
Ar·​chaeo·​pithecus

Definition of Archaeopithecus

: a genus of extinct South American Eocene mammals once supposed to be ancestral to Pithecanthropus but now recognized as notoungulates

History and Etymology for Archaeopithecus

New Latin, from archae- + -pithecus

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