palaeosimia

palaeosimia
\\|pālēō, |palēō+\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from pale- + Latin simia ape — more at simia
: a genus of Miocene fossil apes from the Siwalik hills of India that resemble and are prob. ancestral to the orangutan

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