Bunopithecus
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Bunopithecus sericus
Fossil range: Middle Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hylobatidae
Genus: Bunopithecus
Matthew and Granger, 1923
Species: B. sericus
Binomial name
Bunopithecus sericus
Matthew and Granger, 1923

Bunopithecus sericus is an extinct gibbon or gibbon-like primate. Its remains were first discovered in China, but have since been found all over Southern Europe and Asia. It was a frugivore, and, like modern apes, did not have a tail.

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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