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Kenyapithecus wickeri is a fossil ape discovered by Louis Leakey in 1961 at a site called Fort Ternan in Kenya. The upper jaw and teeth were dated to 14 million years ago. [ 2 ] One theory states that Kenyapithecus may be the common ancestor of all the great apes .
Kenyanthropus is a genus of extinct hominin identified from the Lomekwi site by Lake Turkana, Kenya, dated to 3.3 to 3.2 million years ago during the Middle Pliocene.It contains one species, K. platyops, but may also include the 2 million year old Homo rudolfensis, or K. rudolfensis.
A more recent discovery by Ward et al. in 1999 [3] and reclassification splits Kenyapithecus africanus away again and lumps it with Equatorius africanus, which would move it to the subfamily Afropithecinae with Afropithecus turkanensis. As Ekembo, Kenyapithecus may not be in the same clade as apes and humans, but as the older Equatorius, it may be.
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In Maboko Island (1988), the lower jaw of a Kenyapithecus was found, and it provides signs of the simian shelf evolution in modern apes. [5] Where the simian shelf is present, the bottom teeth will be leaning forward. This happened to be a unique feature of the Kenyapithecus leading there to be a link between the two.
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