Equatorius africanus is an extinct primate of the Kenyapithecinae, found in central Kenya at the Tugen Hills and formerly treated as Kenyapithecus africanus. The Middle Miocene hominid is known from thirty-eight large teeth, a mandible and a partially complete skeleton dated to about 15.58 and 15.36 million years ago. Parts of its anatomy are similar to Afropithecus and Proconsul, but its form and morphology suggested a more terrestrial way of life than those relatives. Ward and colleagues set it apart from Kenyapithecus in 1999 on comparisons of the jaw and teeth, a separation whose validity was later challenged by other researchers.
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found in central Kenya at the Tugen Hills
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Equatorius is an extinct genus of kenyapithecine primate
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anatomy and morphology suggested the genus had an increased terrestrial habitat.
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found in central Kenya at the Tugen Hills
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