Even though an attribution to the genus
Sivapithecus can be readily dismissed, "
Sivapithecus" occidentalis remains a nomenclaturally valid taxon, whose taxonomic affinities remain to be ascertained.
Habitat requirements and the extinction of the Miocene ape,
Sivapithecus. In: Interpreting the past: essays on human, primate, and mammal evolution in honor of David Pilbeam (eds.
In analyses of less complete Ankarapithecus fossils, other researchers have drawn direct links between the Turkish ape and the Asian fossil ape
Sivapithecus, as well as with modern orangutans.
The fauna from the Chinji Formation includes at present the following species:
Sivapithecus sivalensis, S.
They speculate that Dryopithecus spawned a related extinct ape,
Sivapithecus, whose fossils have been fond in Asia, and that it eventually led to modern orangutans.
Dryopithecus emerged in Europe, and its fossil relatives Lufengpithecus and
Sivapithecus appeared in China and South Asia, respectively.
The first discovery of substantial limb remains from an ancient ape known as
Sivapithecus, unearthed from 9- to 11-million-year-old sediments in Pakistan, raises perplexing questions about the creature's evolutionary standing.
From about 15 million to 7 million years ago, as many as five genera on the orangutan lineage lived throughout central Europe and Asia, including Ouranopithecus,
Sivapithecus in south Asia and Lufengpithecus in China, Delson contends.
africanus is comparable to that previously measured in modern humans and in
Sivapithecus, an 8-million-year-old ancestor of modern orangutans.
