Among these residents of early Europe was at least one representative of the anthropoid apes, the fossil species known as Dryopithecus, from the middle Miocene deposits of St. Gaudens, France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference

Dryopithecus was a genus of apes . . . which could have been the evolutionary ancestor of modern man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Chuck Norris Sets The Facts Straight: Evolution Is ‘Not Real. It Is Not The Way We Got Here’] Reference

Dryopithecus was a genus of apes that lived in Eastern Africa during the Upper Miocene period, from 12 to 9 million years ago, and which could have been the evolutionary ancestor of modern man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Chuck Norris Sets The Facts Straight: Evolution Is ‘Not Real. It Is Not The Way We Got Here’] Reference

Dryopithecus, later appears to have become extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Change] Reference

One of these, the Dryopithecus of Lartet, a gibbon or long-armed ape, about equal to man in stature, was obtained in the year 1856 in the Upper Miocene strata at Sansan, near the foot of the Pyrenees in the South of France, and one bone of the same ape is reported to have been since procured from a deposit of corresponding age at Eppelsheim, near Darmstadt, in a latitude answering to that of the southern counties of England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquity of Man] Reference

Dryopithecus was an ape not human.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Chuck Norris Sets The Facts Straight: Evolution Is ‘Not Real. It Is Not The Way We Got Here’] Reference

Explain Dryopithecus genius!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Chuck Norris Sets The Facts Straight: Evolution Is ‘Not Real. It Is Not The Way We Got Here’] Reference

Dryopithecus, 132.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference