Based on ethology & morphology, Albatwitch placed in genus Pan yet Albatwitch may not be of African origin but instead descended from North American primates like Notharctus whose fossils date from the Eocene, 34 – 55 mya:
First Paleoanthropological “Dig” for Albatwitch Fossils
Planning has begun for the first paleoanthropological “dig” for Albatwitch (Pan chlca sp. nov.) bones & fossils in a coal strip mine, drained for other reasons, that was a wetland habitat for many years. In the 1950s, Oreopithecus was discovered in a coal slab in Italy but described earlier in 1872.