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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.
The Koobi Fora research project has been the main program behind some of the most notable hominid fossil discoveries of the past two decades, the most recent being Kenyanthropus platyops. [ 1 ] Leakey has promoted an initiative to place digital models of fossil collections in a virtual laboratory, African Fossils , where models can be ...
Fossil site Date Aegyptopithecus: Fayum 34 - 33 M BP Proconsul: Koru 23 - 22 M BP Sahelanthropus tchadensis: Djourab 6 - 7 M BP Orrorin tugenensis: Baringo 6 M BP Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba: Afar Depression 5.8 - 5.2 M BP Ardipithecus ramidus ramidus: Afar Depression 4.4 M BP Kenyanthropus platyops: Lomweki 3.5 - 3.3 M BP
Lomekwi is an archaeological site located on the west bank of Turkana Lake in Kenya.It is an important milestone in the history of human archaeology. An archaeological team from Stony Brook University in the United States discovered traces of Lomekwi by chance in July 2011, and made substantial progress four years after in-depth excavations.
Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps; 28 July 1942) is a British palaeoanthropologist.She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana Basin Institute.
In 2003, Australian anthropologist David Cameron concluded that the earlier australopithecine Kenyanthropus platyops was the ancestor of rudolfensis, and reclassified it as K. rudolfensis. He also believed that Kenyanthropus was more closely related to Paranthropus than Homo. [15]
English: Found in Kenya, the fossil is approx. 3,5 mil years old. The brain size was 350cm³ (versus a human's 1200-1400cm³). The brain size was 350cm³ (versus a human's 1200-1400cm³). This is a model of the skull as on display in the Brno museum of evolution named "Anthropos".
For a long time, A. afarensis was the oldest known African great ape until the 1994 description of the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus, [14] and a few earlier or contemporary taxa have been described since, including the 4-million-year-old A. anamensis in 1995, [15] the 3.5-million-year-old Kenyanthropus platyops in 2001, [16] the 6 ...