Ankarapithecus Explained

Ankarapithecus is a genus of extinct ape. It was probably frugivorous, and would have weighed about 27kg (60lb). 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.

Notes and References

1. News: Associated Press . 1996-07-25 . Anthropologists Find Rare Kind of Ape Fossil . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-12-21 . 0362-4331 . 2021-09-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210909020215/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/25/us/anthropologists-find-rare-kind-of-ape-fossil.html . live .
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.