Sivapithecus

Sivapithecus is a genus of extinct apes. Fossil remains of animals now assigned to this genus, dated from 12.2 million years old in the Miocene, have been found since the 19th century in the Sivalik Hills of the Indian subcontinent as well as in Kutch. Any one of the species in this genus may have been the ancestor to the modern orangutans.

Sivapithecus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SivapitheciniPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Hominidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Hominidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 2.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Miocene — about 16 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.9–9.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.1–8.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.7–8.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.2–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13.82 Mya11.63 Mya16.5 Mya4.8 Mya

16 occurrences of Sivapithecus on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

16 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Maboko — 0.15°S, 34.60°EMaboko — 0.17°N, 34.62°EChinji — 32.82°N, 75.37°EDhok Pathan — 33.00°N, 72.00°EDhok Pathan — 33.30°N, 72.70°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°E

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The named rock units Sivapithecus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sivapithecus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sivapithecus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

276 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Sivapithecus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

11 references

Each of the 16 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Sivapithecus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Sivapithecus sivalensis · YPM:VP:YPM VP 013832

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSivapithecini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilgrim 1910