According to these discovered pieces, the tooth belonged neither to a man nor an ape, but to a fossil of an extinct genus of peccary called "Prosthennops", and its identification as an ape was retracted in the journal "Science" in 1927.
According to these discovered pieces, the tooth belonged neither to a man nor an ape, but to a fossil of an extinct species of peccary called Prosthennops serus. The earlier identification as an ape was retracted in the journal "Science" in 1927.