Ankarapithecus
| Ankarapithecus Temporal range: Late Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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| †Ankarapithecus meteai Alpagut et al., 1996
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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.
References
- ^ New York Times, Anthropologists Find Rare Kind of Ape Fossil
- ^ Begun, David R. and Güleç, Erskin . 1998. Restoration of the Type and Palate of Ankarapithecus meteai: Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Implications[permanent dead link]. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105:279–314.
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