Ankarapithecus

Ankarapithecus; Temporal range: Late Miocene
	part of the skull at the Natural History Museum, London
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Hominidae
Subfamily:	Ponginae
Tribe:	†Sivapithecini
Genus:	†Ankarapithecus; et al., 1996
Species:	†A. meteai
Binomial name
	†Ankarapithecus meteai; 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.

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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[1] New York Times, Anthropologists Find Rare Kind of Ape Fossil

[2] 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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