dryopithecus

One said it was the dryopithecus of Java, the other said it was pithecanthropus.

The Lost World 1912

M.ocene period, because in the Upper M.ocene deposits of western Europe remains of two species of ape have been found allied to the gibbons, one of them, dryopithecus, nearly as large as a man, and believed by M. Lartet to have approached man in its dentition more than the existing apes.

The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871