Gigantopithecus blacki, Partial Lower Jaw, Largest Known Ape Posters being shed from the jaw

being shed from the jaw during feeding

Note the indications of the fifth metatarsal and calcaneocuboid joint on the lateral margin of the cast

the largest example of Machairodus

Issourmous

Gigantopithecus blacki, Partial Lower Jaw, Largest Known Ape Posters being shed from the jawGigantopithecus (in Greek, gigantas meaning "giant" and pithecus meaning "ape") is an extinct genus of ape that existed from roughly one million years to as recently as three hundred thousand years ago, in what is now China, India, and Vietnam, placing Gigantopithecus in the same time frame and geographical location as several hominin species. ] The fossil record suggests that the Gigantopithecus blacki species were the largest apes that ever lived,