Ankarapithecus

Ankarapithecus Temporal range: Late Miocene
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

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.

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.