Two New Fossil Primates from the Lower Miocene of Kenya

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Nov 1970 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 228, pages 537-540 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: P, Andrews;

doi: 10.1038/228537a0

pmid: 5472469

Two New Fossil Primates from the Lower Miocene of Kenya

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Abstract

Relationships of Miocene Hominoidea are re-evaluated in the light of two new fossil pongids from the early Miocene of Rusinga and Songhor, one an undetermined species of Proconsul possibly ancestral to orang-utans and the other an undetermined species of Aegyptopithecus.

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Paleodontology, Primates, Animals, Kenya

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