pitheco-, pithec-, -pithecan, -pithecoid

An ancient and extinct genus of Notoungulate: Archeopithecus belongs to the suborder Typotheria, and the animal was relatively small, like a rodent and weighed less than two kilos.

A taxonomic genus of the extinct hominids: The small-brained, large-toothed bipedal hominids, which are related to humans, lived in Africa between one and four million years ago.

1. A former genus or grouping of extinct or non living hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
2. A hypothetical family of primates that existed between mankind and primate apes.