Abstract

IN 1856 Eduard Lartet described a hominoid humerus which had been found at the same time and place as the type mandibular fragments of Dryopithecus fontani1. This was the first recording of a fossil great ape. The site of this classic find was a brickworks in Miocene marly clays at the base of a wooded hill or plateau on which the village of Saint Gaudens (Haute Garonne), France, is situated.

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