- Bunopithecus sericus
Taxobox | name = Bunopithecus sericus
fossil_range= MiddlePleistocene
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
ordo =Primate s
familia =Hylobatidae
genus = "Bunopithecus"
genus_authority = Matthew and Granger, 1923
species = "B. sericus"
binomial = "Bunopithecus sericus"
binomial_authority = Matthew and Granger, 1923"Bunopithecus sericus" is an
extinct gibbon or gibbon-likeprimate . Its remains were first discovered inChina , but have since been found all overSouthern Europe andAsia . It was afrugivore , and, like modernape s, did not have atail .Although the two
hoolock gibbon species were once included in the "Bunopithecus" genus, they have recently been removed and "B. sericus" remains as the only known species of this genus.
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