Samburupithecus kiptalami is an extinct primate that lived in Kenya in the Middle to Late Miocene and is the only species of its genus. It is known only from a fragment of upper jaw, the type specimen KNM-SH 8531, dated to 9.5 million years ago and found in 1982 at the SH22 site in the Samburu District by the Joint Japan-Kenya Expedition. It was formally described by Ishida and Pickford in 1997. It lived during the so-called African ape gap, 14 to 7 million years ago, a period from which very few hominoid fossils were known until recently.
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lived in Kenya
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is an extinct primate that lived in Kenya during the Middle to Late Miocene
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lived in Kenya
Habitat and environment
Paleoenvironmental reconstructions indicate that Samburupithecus most likely lived in a wooded habitat surrounded by savannah.
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most likely a frugivorous terrestrial quadruped.
Body size
Samburupithecus was approximately 60 kilograms
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is an extinct primate that lived in Kenya during the Middle to Late Miocene
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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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