Ankarapithecus meteai

Taxobox
name = "Ankarapithecus meteai"
fossil_range =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Hominidae
subfamilia = Ponginae
genus = "Ankarapithecus"
species = "A. meteai"
binomial = "Ankarapithecus meteai"
binomial_authority =

"Ankarapithecus meteai" is an extinct primate in the "Ankarapithecus" genus. It was a 60-pound fruit-eating ape, remains of which were found close to Ankara in central Turkey, first in 1950s, and later in 1990s. ["New York Times", [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E6DF1739F936A15754C0A960958260 Anthropologists Find Rare Kind of Ape Fossil] ] It is the only known member of its genus, which has similar properties to "Sivapithecus".

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