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`*`!Ankarapithecus`!`* is a `F33f`_`[genus`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Genus]`_`f of `F33f`_`[extinct`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Extinct]`_`f `F33f`_`[ape`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Ape]`_`f. It was probably `F33f`_`[frugivorous`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Frugivorous]`_`f, and would have weighed about 27 kilograms (60 lb). Its remains were found close to `F33f`_`[Ankara`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Ankara]`_`f in central `F33f`_`[Turkey`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Turkey]`_`f beginning in the 1950s.`:cite-ref-1[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-1]`_`f] It lived during the `F33f`_`[Late Miocene`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Late_Miocene]`_`f`:cite-ref-2[`F5bf`_`[2`#cite-note-2]`_`f] and was similar to `*`F33f`_`[Sivapithecus`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Sivapithecus]`_`f`*. The genus has one species, `*`!Ankarapithecus meteai`!`*, known as the `*`!Ankara monkey.`!`*

>>References

`:cite-note-1`!1.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-1]`_`f "Anthropologists Find Rare Kind of Ape Fossil". `*The New York Times`*. Associated Press. 1996-07-25. `F33f`_`[ISSN`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=ISSN_(identifier)]`_`f 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2023-12-21.

`:cite-note-2`!2.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-2]`_`f 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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