Kenyapithecus wickeri is a fossil ape discovered by Louis Leakey in 1961 at Fort Ternan in Kenya. The find is an upper jaw with teeth dated to 14 million years ago, in the Miocene. One theory held that Kenyapithecus might be the common ancestor of all the great apes, but more recent work finds it more primitive than that, only slightly more modern than Proconsul, which is regarded as an ape. The evidence suggests that Kenyapithecus wickeri was one of the species that started a radiation of apes out of Africa.
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Source Kenyapithecus (Wikipedia)Lead, locationQuote, Lead, location
Fort Ternan in Kenya
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1. Paleobiology Database: Paleobiology Database taxa of Hominidae, species list
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2. Kenyapithecus (Wikipedia)
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Kenyapithecus wickeri is a fossil ape discovered by Louis Leakey in 1961 at a site called Fort Ternan in Kenya
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Fort Ternan in Kenya
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at a site called Fort Ternan in Kenya
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Kenyapithecus wickeri is a fossil ape discovered by Louis Leakey in 1961 at a site called Fort Ternan in Kenya
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In addition to the extant species and subspecies, archaeologists, paleontologists, and anthropologists have discovered and classified numerous extinct great ape species as below, based on the taxonomy shown.
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