| Kenyapithecus |
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| Zeitraum: | Miozän |
| Verbreitung: | Ostafrika |
| Arten: | K. africanus |
| Schwestertaxa: | K. wickeri |
| Systematik | |
Kenyapithecus africanus ist ein ausgestorbener Primate aus der Familie Hominidae (Tribus Kenyapithecini innerhalb der Unterfamilie Dryopithecinae), der im Miozän in Ostafrika verbreitet war. Einige sind der Meinung, dass die Art von Kenyapithecus abgetrennt und zu Equatorius gestellt werden muß (Ward et al., 1999).
P. Andrews, G.E. Meyer, D.R. Pilbeam, J.A. Van Couvering, and J.A.H. Van Couvering. 1981. The Miocene Fossil Beds of Maboko Island, Kenya: Geology, Age, Taphonomy, and Palaeontology. Journal of Human Evolution 10:35-48
L. S. B. Leakey. 1968. Lower dentition of Kenyapithecus africanus. Nature 217:827-830
M. Pickford. 1992. Evidence for an arid climate in western Uganda during the middle Miocene. Comptes Rendus Acad. des Sci.,serie II 315(11):1419-1424
M. Pickford. 1982. New Higher Primate Fossils from the Middle Miocene Deposits at Majiwa and Kaloma, Western Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:1-19
M. L. McCrossin. 1992. New species of bushbaby from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89:215-233
A. J. Winkler. 1997. Systematics, Paleobiogeography, and Paleoenvironmental Significance of Rodents from the Ibole Member, Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Plenum Press, New York and London 311-332
A. Hill. 1995. Faunal and environmental change in the Neogene of East Africa;evidence from the Tugen Hills Sequence,Baringo District,Kenya. Paleoclimate evolution witphasis on human origins,E.Vrba,Yale University Press 178-193
S. Ward, B. Brown, A. Hill, J. Kelley, W. Downs. 1999. Equatorius: a new hominoid genus from the middle Miocene of Kenya. - Science, 285: 1382-1386
