A new Late Miocene hominoid from Kenya: Samburupithecus kiptalami gen. et sp. nov.
Abstract
A new genus and species of hominoid, Samburupithecus kiptalami, is erected on the basis of a maxillary specimen with complete post canine dentition. Its age is established as upper Miocene (9.5 Ma) on the basis of radioisotopic dating and associated mammalian fauna. The new genus is more closely related to the African ape —human clade (AAH) than is any other known extinct hominoid and it may well be on the line leading to hominids.
- Publication:
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Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science
- Pub Date:
- November 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S1251-8050(97)82762-0
- Bibcode:
- 1997CRASE.325..823I