Species Profile
Sivapithecus
Fossil Miocene ape
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Sivapithecus lived about 12–8 million years ago.
Fossils were found in the Siwalik Hills of India and Pakistan.
It is considered closely related to the lineage of orangutans.
Size & Structure
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Medium-sized ape
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Short face
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Thick enamel teeth
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Strong jaws
Sivapithecus — 3D Model
No 3D model available
General Features
- Coelom
- True coelom
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Moderately developed cerebrum
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Homeothermic
- Circulatory type
- Closed, double, complete
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ureotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Forest-dwelling primate
Omnivorous feeder
Early hominoid radiation
Economic Importance
Important fossil in ape evolution
Helps trace orangutan ancestry
Paleoanthropological research