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单词 sivapithecus
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Sivapithecusn.

Brit. /ˌʃiːvəˈpɪθᵻkəs/, /ˌsiːvəˈpɪθᵻkəs/, U.S. /ˌsivəˈpɪθᵻkəs/, /ˌʃivəˈpɪθᵻkəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Sivapithecus.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Sivapithecus, genus name (G. E. Pilgrim 1910, in Rec. Geol. Surv. India 40 63) < Siva (Sanskrit Śiva ), the name of a Hindu god (see Shiva n.1) + scientific Latin -pithecus (fossil) ape (see Pliopithecus n.), perhaps so called on account of the first finds being made close to an area significant to Hindu mythology.
Palaeontology.
Any of several extinct apes of the genus Sivapithecus, known from Miocene fossil remains originally found in the Siwalik Hills of South Asia, and dated to between 12.5 and 8.5 million years ago. Also: the genus itself. Cf. Ramapithecus n.The genus Sivapithecus is believed to have included the ancestor of the orangutans (genus Pongo).
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > fossil or extinct types
Dryopithecus1862
Sivapithecus1915
Australopithecus1925
Proconsul1933
Ramapithecus1934
Plesianthropus1938
australopithecine1941
australopith1949
Kenyapithecus1961
ramapithecine1972
Afropithecus1986
1915 G. E. Pilgrim in Rec. Geol. Surv. India 45 3 The characters common to the Gibbon and Sivapithecus and not shared by the other living apes, point to Sivapithecus, and therefore Man, being an early offshoot from the Gibbon line.
1964 S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 19 52/2 We should not be surprised to find more or less hominoid features in the dentition of Sivapithecus or Ramapithecus.
1992 N.Y. Times 17 Mar. c10/6 Of all the dryopithecines, paleontologists say, only Sivapithecus from Asia has many notable physical similarities with any living ape.
2005 C. Stringer & P. Andrews Compl. World Human Evol. ii. 109/2 The environment occupied by Sivapithecus was not the typical forest habitat to which living apes are adapted.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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