Sivapithecus indicus

Taxobox
name = "Sivapithecus indicus"
fossil_range = Miocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
familia = Hominidae
subfamilia = Ponginae
genus = "Sivapithecus"
species = "S. indicus"
binomial = "Sivapithecus indicus"
binomial_authority = Pilgrim, 1910

"Sivapithecus indicus" is an extinct primate and a possible ancestor to the modern orangutan.

Specimens of "Sivapithecus indicus", roughly 12.5 million to 10.5 million years old (Miocene), have been found at the Pothowar plateau in Pakistan as well as in parts of India.

The animal was about the size of a chimpanzee but had the facial morphology of an orangutan; it ate soft fruit (detected in the toothwear pattern) and was probably mainly arboreal.

References

* Szalay, F. S. & Delson, E. (1979) "Evolutionary History of the Primates". New York: Academic Press.

See also

*List of fossil sites "(with link directory)"
*List of hominina (hominid) fossils "(with images)"

External links

* http://www.modernhumanorigins.com/sivapithecus.html