Sivapithecus (lit.'Shiva's Ape') (syn: Ramapithecus) is a genus of extinct apes. Fossil remains of animals now assigned to this genus, dated from 12.2 million years old[1] in the Miocene, have been found since the 19th century in the Siwalik Hills of the Indian subcontinent as well as in Kutch. Any one of the species in this genus may have been the ancestor to the modern orangutans.
Some early discoveries were given the separate names Ramapithecus (Rama's Ape) and Bramapithecus (Brahma's Ape), and were thought to be possible ancestors of humans.
others) that Sivapithecus was closely related to orangutans. In 2011, a 10.8 million-year old (Neogene period) upper jawbone of Sivapithecus was found in...
found across Sivalik region in present-day India, Nepal and Pakistan. Sivapithecus (a kind of ape, formerly known as Ramapithecus) is among many fossil...
molar to second molar ratio of 85%. Like Ouranopithecus and early Sivapithecus (Sivapithecus is known from the Indian subcontinent), but unlike most contemporary...
beginning in the 1950s. It lived during the Late Miocene and was similar to Sivapithecus. "Anthropologists Find Rare Kind of Ape Fossil". The New York Times....
considered as similar (synonymous) to Graecopithecus and member of the genus Sivapithecus, which more discoveries proved otherwise. Based on O. macedoniensis'...
about 15 million years ago. The best-known fossil genus of Ponginae is Sivapithecus, consisting of several species from 12.5 million to 8.5 million years...
considered Gigantopithecus to be closely allied with the Late Miocene Sivapithecus from India. In 1939, South African palaeontologist Robert Broom hypothesised...
hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million...
Old World at the time–into three subgenera: Dryopithecus in Europe, Sivapithecus in Asia, and Proconsul in Africa. Afterwards, there was discussion over...
Chaivanich, Tafforeau & Chaimanee, 2011 Lufengpithecus Griphopithecus Sivapithecus Wikispecies has information related to Khoratpithecus. Y. Chaimanee;...
ape Sivapithecus indicus. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald in 1950 recognized D. giganteus as being distinct from Dryopithecus and Sivapithecus and...
Thailand;: 50 Indopithecus, which lived in India from 9.2 to 8.6 mya; and Sivapithecus, which lived in India and Pakistan from 12.5 mya until 8.5 mya. These...
Age, from which remnants of stone and flint tools have been found. The Sivapithecus indicus fossil skull of an extinct ape species was discovered in Potohar...
and possible ancestor of modern orangutans (now considered a female Sivapithecus) Australopithecus, 2–3 million years old; then considered the earliest...
last common ancestor) is estimated at some 14 to 12.5 million years (Sivapithecus). Its separation into Gorillini and Hominini (the "gorilla–human last...
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