What the heck is a Dinopithecus?

Dinopithecus was an extinct genus of man-sized giant baboons that lived during the Pliocene Epoch in South Africa. Males grew to 5 feet tall (1.52 m), Females were 4 feet (1.22 m) tall. The Pliocene is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago. So, they've been dead a long time. What does this have to do with Dogman?
Well, there are those that have theorized that since baboons have a dog-like muzzle and are also human-like in some ways, Dogman may be surviving Dinopithecus which crossed the Bering Strait at some point. Is this theory any less valid than those that have suggested Bigfoot is a surviving Gigantopithicus? Perhaps, because Gigantopithicus is said to have existed nine million years to as recently as one hundred thousand years ago. It is more likely that a species thought to be extinct 100,000 years ago somehow survived than a species thought to be extinct 2.58 million years ago survived. However, sometimes newer fossils of extinct animals are uncovered and their time of extinction isn't as long ago as once thought. Sometimes, as in the case of the fish known as the Coelacanth, a creature thought to be extinct 66 million years ago was found to be still alive. Back to Dinopithicus, what is known about this creature boils down to partial remains, including skull and teeth. The rest of the morphology information is filled in with knowledge of extant baboons. If you look at the drawing of the Dinopithicus head in the illustration above, it does kind of look like how some werewolves have been depicted.