Ankarapithecus

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Ankarapithecus is a genus of extinct ape. It was probably frugivorous, and would have weighed about Script error: No such module "convert".. 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.

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  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.

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