Pongo hooijeri
| Pongo hooijeri Temporal range: Pleistocene
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| Restoration of an adult female and infant | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Genus: | Pongo |
| Species: | †P. hooijeri
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| Binomial name | |
| †Pongo hooijeri Schwartz et al., 1995
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Pongo hooijeri is an extinct species of orangutan from the Pleistocene of Vietnam. It was named in honor of paleontologist Dirk Albert Hooijer. Fossils of the ape were found in the Tham Hai Cave.