_Anthropops_, Ameghino, Rev. Arg. Nat. Hist., i., p. 387 (1891); Zittel,
Handb. Palæont., iv., p. 704 (1893).
This genus is known from only a fragment of a lower jaw containing four
small incisors, two strong canines, and anterior and median pre-molars,
both one-rooted. One species, ANTHROPOPS PERFECTUS, Ameghino, from the
older Tertiary (Upper Eocene or Oligocene) beds of Santa Cruz, Patagonia,
is known.
Two genera, _Homocentrus_ (H. ARGENTINUS, Amegh.) and {212}_Eudiastus_ (E.
LINGULATUS, Amegh.), described by Ameghino, from the Santa Cruz beds in
Patagonia, are not yet sufficiently characterised.
FAMILY CERCOPITHECIDÆ (Vol. I., p. 248).
GENUS PAPIO (_suprà_, p. 253).
Several species of this still living genus have been recovered from strata
of the Tertiary epoch: PAPIO SUB-HIMALAYANUS (Meyer), from the Sivalik
hills, of Lower Pliocene age; P. FALCONERI (Lydekker), from the Pleistocene
bone-caves of Madras, India, and in the superficial deposits of Algeria,
North Africa; and P. ATLANTICUS (Thomas).
The Sivalik species was closely related to the existing North-African
Baboons.