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Science 27 August 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5432, pp. 1382 - 1386
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5432.1382
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Equatorius: A New Hominoid Genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya
Steve Ward,
1
Barbara Brown,
2
Andrew Hill,
3
Jay Kelley,
4
Will Downs
5
A partial hominoid skeleton just older than 15 million
years from sediments in the Tugen Hills of north central Kenya mandates a revision of the hominoid genus Kenyapithecus, a possible
early member of the great ape-human clade. The Tugen
Hills specimen represents a new genus, which also incorporates all
material previously referable to Kenyapithecus africanus.
The new taxon is derived with respect to earlier Miocene hominoids but
is primitive with respect to the younger species Kenyapithecus
wickeri and therefore is a late member of the stem hominoid
radiation in the East African Miocene.
1 Department of Anatomy, Northeastern Ohio
Universities College of Medicine, Post Office Box 95, Rootstown,
OH 44272, USA, and Division of Biomedical Sciences, Kent State
University, Kent, OH 44242, USA.
2 Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of
Medicine, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA.
3 Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New
Haven, CT 06520, USA.
4 Department of Oral Biology,
College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
60612, USA.
5 Bilby Research Center, Northern
Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
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