griphopith

English

Etymology

From scientific Latin Griphopithecus (genus name).

Noun

griphopith (plural griphopiths)

1. (paleontology) Any of a group of morphologically similar early hominids of the genera Griphopithecus and Kenyapithecus.
   • 2011, Patricia J. Ash, David J. Robinson, The Emergence of Humans:

     Griphopiths from all locations have shared derived characters that make them unique and very different from the Early Miocene apes.

   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 112:

     Griphopiths are the earliest hominids, and their appearance in Europe at least a million years earlier than in Africa suggests that our family most likely arose in Europe—and not, as has been long assumed, in Africa.