Sivapithecus

All of the above, including modern orang-utans, seem to have descended from a genus of ancient apes known as Sivapithecus.

On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011

These may have descended from an earlier form of Sivapithecus.

On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011

Morphologically they seem to fall between Sivapithecus and modern orang-utans.

On the trail of the orang pendek, Sumatra's mystery ape | Richard Freeman 2011

This study provides a survey of mandibular shape in a sample of extant hominoids (Pan, Gorilla, Pongo, and Hylobates), as well as extinct Asian and Eurasian taxa (Ouranopithecus, Sivapithecus, and Gigantopithecus) in order to compare overall shape similarity.

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This suite of molar morphologies is also found to varying degrees in Pongo and Sivapithecus, but not in African apes and humans, and may be diagnostic of subfamily Ponginae.

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Dating to between nine and thirteen million years, the Asian Sivapithecus had often been suggested as the distant forebear of the great apes and humans.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

From the broken bits of jawbones and teeth—fossils that Louis and Le Gros Clark had originally classified as species of Proconsul and Sivapithecus, both early apelike creatures—Louis picked out seven specimens, including the fossil over which he and Le Gros had originally argued.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Dating to between nine and thirteen million years, the Asian Sivapithecus had often been suggested as the distant forebear of the great apes and humans.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

From the broken bits of jawbones and teeth—fossils that Louis and Le Gros Clark had originally classified as species of Proconsul and Sivapithecus, both early apelike creatures—Louis picked out seven specimens, including the fossil over which he and Le Gros had originally argued.

Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

Forget the fact that he takes Johanson out of context read the entire passage from Lucy and you'll find Don does indeed think there is a "yesterday" for orangutans; forget even that in 1998 Johnston fails to mention Proconsul, Pliopithecus, Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus, Propliopithecus, Afropithecus, Dendropithecus, Limnopithecus and God knows how many other species, genera and families of potential hominoid ancestors were available; all of which showed so many transitional features between them that it is indeed, difficult to confidently construct phylogenetic trees.

Archive 2006-04-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006