Word: sugrivapithecus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ramapithecus had a V-shaped upper jaw more similar to human form than to the U-shaped jaws of modern gorillas, orangs, chimpanzees. Sugrivapithecus had a well-developed chin like that of primitive man. Both had close-set, almost human teeth, lacking the formidable canine tusks of the great apes of today. The third genus was more like extinct apes previously discovered...
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