( she-vah-pith ah-cuss)Genus of fossil ape from India and Pakistan, dated from 15 to 12 mya. Thought to be ancestral to the orangutan.

fossil primates found in India

Sivapithecus is a genus of extinct primates. Fossil remains of animals now assigned to this genus, dated from 12.5 million to 8.5 million years old in the Miocene, have been found since the 19th century in the Siwalik Hills in what is now India and Pakistan. Any one of the species in this genus may have been the ancestor to the modern orangutans.