Preuss T M
Folia Primatol (Basel). 1982;38(3-4):141-57. doi: 10.1159/000156053.
A recently recovered specimen of Sivapithecus indicus from Late Miocene Siwalik deposits which preserves much of the face is described. The face is generally gracile, although the mandibular corpus is deep and robust. The specimen exhibits numerous similarities to Pongo pygmaeus and it is suggested that S. indicus and P. pygmaeus bear a close phyletic relationship; a taxonomic scheme is proposed to accommodate these conclusions. The orang-like specializations of S. indicus indicate that it probably was not ancestral to the hominids or African apes, although this may not be the case for other Sivapithecus species.
描述了一个最近从晚中新世西瓦立克沉积物中发现的保存了大部分面部的印度西瓦古猿标本。面部总体较为纤细，尽管下颌体深且粗壮。该标本与婆罗洲猩猩有许多相似之处，有人认为印度西瓦古猿与婆罗洲猩猩具有密切的系统发育关系；为此提出了一个分类方案以支持这些结论。印度西瓦古猿类似猩猩的特化特征表明，它可能并非人类或非洲猿类的祖先，不过其他西瓦古猿物种可能并非如此。
