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 | |
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| Top and side views of the Nakalipithecus holotype, a jawbone and the molars | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Nakalipithecus |
| Species: | Template:Taxonomy/NakalipithecusN. nakayamai
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| Binomial name | |
| Nakalipithecus nakayamai Kunimatsu et al., 2007
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