Ankarapithecus

Ankarapithecus
Temporal range: Late Miocene
part of the skull at the Natural History Museum, London
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Primates
Superfamily: Hominoidea
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Ponginae
Tribe: †Sivapithecini
Genus: †Ankarapithecus
Alpagut et al., 1996
Species:
†A. meteai
Binomial name
†Ankarapithecus meteai
Alpagut et al., 1996

Ankarapithecus (from Ankara and Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos), meaning "ape, monkey") 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.

Phylogénie des James Birx (2010)[3] and David Begun (2015):[4]

 Ponginae 

 Ankarapithecus †

 Sivapithecini †
Pongini

References

  1. ^ "Anthropologists Find Rare Kind of Ape Fossil". The New York Times. Associated Press. 1996-07-25. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
  2. ^ Begun, David R. and Güleç, Erskin. 1998. "Restoration of the type and palate of Ankarapithecus meteai: Taxonomic and phylogenetic implications". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105: 279–314.
  3. ^ Birx (dir.), H. James (2010). 21st Century Anthropology : A Reference Handbook, partie IX, chapitre 55, p. 553-554. Vol. 2. Sage Publications.
  4. ^ Begun, David R. (2015). The real Planet of the Apes : A new Story of human Origins. Princeton University Press.


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