Editing Gigantopithecus (section)

===="''G. bilaspurensis''"====
In 1969, an 8.6 million year old mandible from the [[Sivalik Hills]] in northern India was classified as "''G. bilaspurensis''" by palaeontologists [[Elwyn L. Simons]] and {{ill|Shiv Raj Kumar Chopra|de}}, who believed it was the ancestor of ''G. blacki''.<ref name=ZhangHarrison2017/><ref name=Hartwig2002>{{cite book|first=W. C.|last=Hartwig|year=2002|title=The Primate Fossil Record|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=371–372|isbn=0-521-66315-6|url={{google books|plainurl=yes|id=Ezm1OA_s6isC|page=371}}}}</ref> This bore resemblance to a molar discovered in 1915 in the Pakistani [[Pothohar Plateau]] then classified as "''[[Dryopithecus]] giganteus''". Von Koenigswald reclassified "''D. giganteus''" in 1950 into its own genus, ''[[Indopithecus]]'', but this was changed again in 1979 to "''G. giganteus''" by American anthropologists Frederick Szalay and Eric Delson<ref>{{cite book|first1=F.|last1=Szalay|first2=E.|last2=Delson|year=1979|title=Evolutionary History of the Primates|publisher=Academic Press|pages=493–494|isbn=1-4832-8925-7|url={{google books|plainurl=yes|id=jE7gBAAAQBAJ|page=493}}}}</ref> until ''Indopithecus'' was resurrected in 2003 by Australian anthropologist {{ill|David W. Cameron|qid=Q27947828|s=1|v=sup}}.<ref name="ZhangHarrison2017"/><ref>{{cite journal|last=Cameron|first=D. W.|year=2003|title=A functional and phylogenetic interpretation of the late Miocene Siwalik hominid ''Indopithecus'' and the Chinese Pleistocene hominid ''Gigantopithecus''|journal=Himalayan Geology|volume=24|issue=2|pages=19–28|url=https://www.himgeology.com/volume_details.php?volume=35|access-date=12 February 2025|url-access=subscription}}</ref> "''G. bilaspurensis''" is now considered a [[Taxonomic synonym|synonym]] of ''Indopithecus giganteus'', leaving ''Gigantopithecus'' [[monotypic]] (with only one species), ''G. blacki''.<ref name="ZhangHarrison2017"/><ref>{{cite journal|last=Cameron|first=D. W.|year=2001|title=The taxonomic status of the Siwalik late Miocene hominid ''Indopithecus'' (= ''Gigantopithecus'')|journal=Himalayan Geology|volume=22|issue=2|pages=29–34|url=https://www.himgeology.com/volume_details.php?volume=38|access-date=12 February 2025|url-access=subscription}}</ref>