Graecopithecus freybergi is a species of hominin ape that was; originally; identified by a single mandible found in 1944. Since then, analysis of tooth specimens, dated to 7.2 million years ago.
The mandible and a fragment of a premolar is from a site called Pyrgos Vassilissis, northwest of Athens; Greece.
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Graecopithecus may speculated to have been the oldest direct ancestor of humans excluding the chimpanzee lineage, or alternatively the last common ancestor of both humans and chimpanzees.[1] The creature was promptly nicknamed ‘El Graeco' by scientists.