An extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World fossil remains of the Miocene and Pliocene epochs and believed to be an ancestor of the anthropoid apes and human beings.

• 森林古猿一种绝种森林古猿属猿，发现于中新世和上新世东半球化石中，被认为是类人猿和人类的祖先