Ankarapithecus
Extinct genus of primates From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ankarapithecus is a genus of extinct ape. It was probably frugivorous, and would have weighed about 27 kilograms (60 lb). Its remains were found close to Ankara in central Turkey beginning in the 1950s.[1] It lived during the Late Miocene[2] and was similar to Sivapithecus. The genus has one species, Ankarapithecus meteai, known as the Ankara monkey.
| Ankarapithecus Temporal range: Late Miocene | |
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| part of the skull at the Natural History Museum, London | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponginae |
| Tribe: | †Sivapithecini |
| Genus: | †Ankarapithecus Alpagut et al., 1996 |
| Species: | †A. meteai |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ankarapithecus meteai Alpagut et al., 1996 | |
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