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	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
		While there are suggestions of other differences in the Sivapithecus samples from the Chinji and Dhok Pathan Formations, for example in tooth proportions (Kelley 1988), that might indicate the presence of different species, these have not been systematically assessed (Kelley 2005:8).
		Kelley J. Misconceptions arising from the misassignment of non-hominoid teeth to the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus Paleontologica Electronica 8:16A.
		Sivapithecus represents the large radiation of the fossil Asian apes, and one or more forms are ancestral both to living orangutans as well as many fossil apes, including Lufengpithecus and Gigantopithecus.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/fossils/apes/sivapithecus (689 words)

	Sivapithecus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Any one of the species in this genus may have been the ancestor to the modern orangutans.
		Sivapithecus indicus fossils date from about 12.5 million to 10.5 million years ago.
		In 1982 David Pilbeam published a description of a significant fossil find — a large part of the face and jaw of a Sivapithecus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sivapithecus (222 words)

	Sivapithecus sivalensis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This species was formerly known as Sivapithecus indicus and as Ramapithecus punjabicus and as Dryopithecus punjabicus.
		Sivapithecus sivalensis had a dental formula of 2:1:2:3 on both the upper and lower jaw (Fleagle, 1988).
		Sivapithecus sivalensis was found on the continent of Asia and occurred during the late Miocene (Fleagle, 1988).
	www.members.tripod.com /cacajao/sivapithecus_sivalensis.html (165 words)

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		In a taxonomic revision of Sivapithecus a few years later, Kay (1982) either did not notice any morphological variation in the canine sample or chose not to assess it.
		By the early 1980s, Sivapithecus taxonomy had come to be based largely or entirely on size, regardless of the number of species recognized or their nomenclature (Simons and Pilbeam 1965; Pilbeam et al.
		Since the upper canines were the only teeth in the Sivapithecus sample that showed clear, discrete variation, and since this variation seemed to segregate temporally, large and small specimens from the younger Dhok Pathan Formation were placed in one species, while those from the older Chinji Formation were placed in another.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /hosted_sites/pe/2005_1/kelley16/taxon.htm (1145 words)

	John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
		However, Ankarapithecus lacks a number of features that link Sivapithecus with living and fossil orangutans, causing some paleontologists to suggest that it may represent the earliest radiation of Asian apes.
		Such a position would explain the retention of many primitive similarities with European apes like Dryopithecus, and would mean that the Anatolian population survived as a relict of the early Asian radiation even as the subsequent radiation of Sivapithecus into the later Asian apes occurred in South Asia.
		The initial dental discoveries of Dryopithecus identified it as a fossil ape on the basis of the pattern of cusps and grooves on its molar teeth, which is similar to the great apes and humans.
	johnhawks.net /weblog/fossils/apes (4658 words)

	Front Cover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The photograph is a partial face of Sivapithecus, an 8 million year old ape related to the orangutan, found in Petwar Plateau of Pakistan.
		Once used to cover a wide range of material, the names Sivapithecus and Ramapithecus are now best restricted to specimens only from Turkey, Pakistan, India and Nepal dating between 12 million yrs and 7 million yrs.
		The study of limb bones show that Sivapithecus was apelike overall, long armed and climbing, hanging and swinging using the arms with the body frequently vertical.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Quad/1267/novcov.htm (290 words)

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		Pilgrim said of this specimen, “Though apparently primate, it differs considerably from that of any other genus so far known by the presence of a very distinct cingulum at the postero-internal corner of the tooth” (Pilgrim 1915, p.
		Interestingly, Pilgrim did not compare this tooth with the canine in the type specimen of Palaeopithecus (now Sivapithecus) sivalensis, GSI D. Lydekker 1879), which is broken and preserves only the base of the crown.
		Their discussion of the morphology of these canines is terse and somewhat ambiguous, as they were clearly more focused on size than on morphology.
	palaeo-electronica.org /2005_1/kelley16/history.htm (1134 words)

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		While there are suggestions of other differences in the Sivapithecus samples from the Chinji and Dhok Pathan Formations, for example in tooth proportions (Kelley 1988), that might indicate the presence of different species, these have not been systematically assessed.
		The degree of canine height dimorphism in Sivapithecus based on these specimens is relatively high and on a par with that found in gorillas or orangutans (Kelley 1995a, 1995b), in contrast to the claim for relatively low canine dimorphism in Sivapithecus species made by Kay (1982) based on overall metric variation in the canine sample.
		Thus, the level of canine dimorphism in Sivapithecus appears to be similar to that of all other large-bodied Miocene hominoids for which measures of canine dimorphism can be calculated (Kelley 1995b; Kelley and Alpagut 1999).
	www.nhm.ac.uk /hosted_sites/pe/2005_1/kelley16/implic.htm (338 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Flesh from Stone -- A paleoartist reflects on the process of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Then there is Sivapithecus, which is closely related to orangutans on almost everyone’s evolutionary tree.
		Sivapithecus is really outrageous, because it takes some of the things that make orangutan faces stand out from other living apes to an unbelievable extreme.
		But the fairly complete face that’s known for Sivapithecus is not ambiguous in the form that it indicates.
	sciam.com /article.cfm?articleid=0006FD89-5BA7-1F18-B4FD80A84189EEDF (832 words)

	Book Review
		Few are better suited for this task since he has been a key player for three decades and it was his expedition that found the Sivapithecus face that led to the reevaluation of the hominid status of Ramapithecus.
		He entered the field before the precise weapons of cladism were widely applied in primatology and had to rearm in midcareer like many of us of an earlier generation.
		S. Ward reviews what is known about Sivapithecus and concludes that this Asian Middle Miocene form shares a close relationship to Pongo despite the fact that it had quadrupedally adapted limbs.
	www.anthro.ucdavis.edu /faculty/mchenry/miocene.htm (1328 words)

	Exhibit Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This living great ape with the most clearly identifiable fossil relative is the orangutan, now found only on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
		Sivapithecus, one species of which is reconstructed here, is a hominoid genus known best from India and Pakistan in the period between 12 and 7 million years (myr) ago.
		It very closely resembles the orangutan in its skull structure, but the details of its body skeleton are much more monkeylike.
	www.columbia.edu /ccnmtl/draft/jrowe/virtual_museum/1E5.html (168 words)

	Planet of the Apes
		Histological studies of the teeth of Dryopithecus and Sivapithecus suggest that these creatures grew fairly slowly, as living great apes do, and that they probably had life histories similar to those of the great apes - maturing at a leisurely rate, living long lives, bearing one large offspring at a time, and so forth.
		We lack direct clues to brain size in Sivapithecus, but given that life history correlates strongly with brain size, it is likely that this ape was similarly brainy.
		Most important, both Dryopithecus and Sivapithecus display adaptations to suspensory locomotion, especially in the elbow joint, which was fully extendable and stable throughout the full range of motion.
	www.primates.com /history/index.html (3774 words)

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		Some specimens of one canine type are associated with other dental and gnathic material of Sivapithecus, whereas all specimens of the other type occur as isolated teeth.
		One unusual feature of all of the latter specimens is the lack of a distal wear facet, even on teeth with an extensive mesial wear facet showing that the teeth were in functional occlusion.
		Removing these canines from Sivapithecus calls into question one recent taxonomic revision of the genus that argued for time-successive species of Sivapithecus based on the perceived temporal segregation of the two canine morphologies.
	www.ga.gov.au /paleo/2005_1/kelley16/main.htm (224 words)

	index.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Much of my work focuses on the ecology of Sivapithecus in the Siwaliks of Pakistan, for these sediments span the past 20 Ma, providing a nearly continuous record of faunal and environmental change documenting an ape clade throughout its radiation and demise.
		My research incorporates both dental microwear and carbon and oxygen stable isotopic analyses from a wide range of mammalian species to reconstruct diets, forest type, mosaic of vegetation on the landscape, fruit availability, and seasonality of the precipitation regime.
		I am also exploring the potential of using intra-jaw isotopic variability to reconstruct a range of aspects of an animal's ecology as well as caveats in inferring climatic signals from intra-tooth isotopic variability.
	www.bu.edu /anthrop/faculty/nelson (343 words)

	Rob Scott's Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Remains of the hominoid Sivapithecus parvada and a diversity of mammalian taxa are preserved at locality Y311 (ca.
		Bovids (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) are the most abundant mammals next to tragulids (Tragulidae, Artiodactyla) at locality Y311 and provide a means for reconstructing the paleoenvironments that would have been available to Sivapithecus parvada.
		Sivapithecus and Kenyapithecus lived in different ecological settings probably characterized by varying degrees of vegetative cover.
	comp.uark.edu /~rscott/research.htm (655 words)

	Science: Bone find confuses Asian ape's relatives - 17 November 1990 - New Scientist
		The fossil ape is Sivapithecus, of which several species are known from Turkey and Indo-Pakistan.
		In 1982, David Pilbeam of Harvard University concluded that Sivapithecus was related to the modern Asian great ape, the orang-utan.
		According to the argument, if Sivapithecus is indeed related somehow to the orang-utan, which certain aspects of the anatomy of the face seems to indicate, then other parts of the skeletal anatomy would be expected to be specialised, as in the modern Asian ape.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg12817433.000.html (279 words)

	Early Pleistocene Hominids-China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the time the discoveries were made Ramapithecus was still regarded by many paleanthropologists as the earliest and most primitive hominid, based primarily on dental features thought to be derived in the human direction.
		Sivapithecus was considered to be an early pongid only indirectly related to the smaller hominid.
		It wasn't long, however, before these two fossil taxa were re-evaluated based on new fossil discoveries in the Siwaliks of Pakistan and molecular evidence which indicated that Ramapithecus occurred too early in the fossil record to be a direct human ancestor.
	www.chineseprehistory.org /art1.htm (3836 words)

	The relationships of Sivapithecus and Ramapithecus and the evolution of the orang-utan
		The relationships of Sivapithecus and Ramapithecus and the evolution of the orang-utan
		Man is shown to be most closely related to chimpanzees and gorillas among extant hominoids, with the orang-utan more distantly related to them and the gibbons more distantly still.
		A fossil ape, Sivapithecus meteai, shares several characters with the orang-utan and is thus probably related to it.
	www.nature.com /cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v297/n5867/abs/297541a0.html (442 words)

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		Nevertheless the major issue over 20 years was whether Sivapithecus should be classified as Hominid in the first place.
		The molecular biologists maintained that the most reliable method of establishing when species separated is to study the proteins and nucleic acids of living specimens.
		These skulls are full size and illustrate the relative size of Sivapithecus to a modern (Caucasoid) Homo Sapiens.
	www.lamma.net /sivapithecus.htm (279 words)

	Amazon.com: Sivapithecus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Extinction of Sivapithecus: Faunal and Environmental Changes Surrounding the Disappearance of a Miocene Hominoid in the Siwaliks of Pakistan (American...
		New skull remains of Sivapithecus from Pakistan by David R Pilbeam (Unknown Binding - 1981)
		Ultimately enough Sivapithecus remains were found to validate...
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	A105 Lectures Miocene fossils & Missing Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		DNA evidence for branching pattern of hominoids, which assumes a constant rate of mutation through time, can be callibrated in time with reference to known fossils.
		Dates for fossil Sivapithecus (early on orangutan lineage) and Proconsul (ancestral to all living hominoids) imply a date for the separation of hominids from the ancestral apes (and common ancestor with chimpanzees) between 5 and 7 million years ago.
		There is a scramble to look for fossils from this time period.
	www.indiana.edu /~origins/teach/A105/lectures/A105_links.html (524 words)

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		Another later genus, Sivapithecus (12-7 mya), is most commonly thought of as the ancestor of orangutans.
		Examine the Proconsul, Sivapithecus, Gigantopithecus, Oreopithecus, cercopithecine, orangutan and chimpanzee specimens in order to answer the following questions: Name and describe two differences between Proconsul and the cercopithecine.
		___________________ ___________________ Name and describe two similarities between Sivapithecus and the orangutan _____________________ _____________________ Name and describe two differences between Sivapithecus and the chimpanzee.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/krigbaum/3514/labs/Lab7_spr04.doc (697 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Extinction of Sivapithecus: Faunal and Environmental Changes Surrounding the Disappearance of a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amazon.fr : The Extinction of Sivapithecus: Faunal and Environmental Changes Surrounding the Disappearance of a Miocene Hominoid in the Siwaliks of Pakistan: Livres en anglais: Sherry V. Nelson
		Three different studies involving dental microwear and stable isotopic analyses are interwoven to provide reconstructions of the preferred landscape, climate, and diet of Sivapithecus as well as changes in the environment that led to its extinction.
		This book presents new techniques that allow for a more detailed analysis of faunal and environmental change than ever before documented for an ape clade throughout its radiation and demise.
	www.amazon.fr /Extinction-Sivapithecus-Environmental-Surrounding-Disappearance/dp/0391042076 (296 words)

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	Faculty and Staff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Comparative humeral morphology of anthropoid primates and the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus.
		New postcranial remains of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus from the Siwaliks of Pakistan.
		Cross sectional evidence of forelimb loading patterns in Sivapithecus (Primates, Mammalia): can postcranial anatomy resolve hominoid phylogeny?
	home.hiram.edu /www/biology/facstaff/madar (890 words)

	BRILL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		See www.paulyonline.brill.nl for more information and a demo version.
		She is currently continuing research in the Siwaliks at the University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology.
		Sherry V. Nelson examines the adaptations and extinction of Sivapithecus, a Miocene hominoid, in the Siwaliks of Pakistan.
	www.brill.nl /product.asp?ID=11665 (530 words)

	Sivapithecus - Dictionnaire Français-Anglais WordReference.com
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	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003051916 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Table of contents for The extinction of Sivapithecus : faunal and environmental changes surrounding the disappearance of a miocene hominoid in the Siwaliks of Pakistan / Sherry V. Nelson.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
		Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Sivapithecus Siwalik Range, Paleoecology Siwalik Range, Animal remains (Archaeology) Siwalik Range, Teeth, Fossil Siwalik Range, Siwalik Range Antiquities
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