| Ankarapithecus Temporal range: Late Miocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponginae |
| Genus: | Ankarapithecus |
| Species: | A. meteai |
| Binomial name | |
| Ankarapithecus meteai Alpagut et. al., 1996 |
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Ankarapithecus is a genus of extinct ape. It was probably frugivorous, and would have weighed about 60 pounds. Its remains were found close to Ankara in central Turkey beginning in the 1950s.[1] It lived during the Late Miocene.[2] It was similar to Sivapithecus.