Ankarapithecus

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.

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