Nakalipithecus

Nakalipithecus nakayamai is a fossil ape species. It was a discovery of a 10-million-year-old jawbone with teeth, in a volcanic mud in Nakali, Kenya. N. nakayamai is thought to have lived around 9.9 million to 9.8 million years ago. More teeth were found in the same place; eleven of them are thought to belong to this specimen.

Nakalipithecus
Nakalipithecus mandible.jpg
Top and side views of the Nakalipithecus holotype, a jawbone and the molars
Scientific classification e
Unrecognized taxon (fix): Nakalipithecus
Species:
Binomial name
Nakalipithecus nakayamai
Kunimatsu et al., 2007

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