Dryopithecini

{{short description|Extinct tribe of apes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Miocene {{Fossilrange|12|7}}

| image = Dryopithecus fontani.jpg

| image_caption = Mandible fragment of Dryopithecus fontani from Saint-Gaudens, France (Middle Miocene, 11.5 Mya); cast from Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris

| taxon = Dryopithecini

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| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = {{plainlist|

• Kenyapithecus
• Danuvius
• Ouranopithecus
• Otavipithecus
• Oreopithecus
• Nakalipithecus
• Anoiapithecus
• Dryopithecus
• Hispanopithecus
• Pierolapithecus
• Rudapithecus
• Samburupithecus
• Griphopithecus}}

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Dryopithecini is an extinct tribe of Eurasian and African great apes that are believed to be close to the ancestry of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans.{{Cite web | url = http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/eutheria/primates/hominoidea/hominoidea.html | title = Hominoidea | publisher = Mikko's Phylogeny Archive | date = 2005-01-14 | first = Mikko | last = Haaramo}}{{Cite journal |last1=Moya-Sola|first1=S.|last2=Alba|first2=D. M.|last3=Almecija|first3=S.|last4=Casanovas-Vilar|first4=I.|last5=Kohler|first5=M.|last6=De Esteban-Trivigno|first6=S.|last7=Robles|first7=J. M.|last8=Galindo|first8=J.|last9=Fortuny|first9=J.|year=2009 |title=A unique Middle Miocene European hominoid and the origins of the great ape and human clade |journal=PNAS |volume=106 |issue=24 |pages=9601–9606 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0811730106 |pmid=19487676 |pmc=2701031|bibcode=2009PNAS..106.9601M|doi-access=free}} Members of this tribe are known as dryopithecines.