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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 .
In 1993, Leakey joined her mother as a co-leader of paleontological expeditions in northern Kenya. 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.
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.
Kenyanthropus platyops: 1999 Lake Turkana (West Lake Turkana), Kenya: Justus Erus and Meave Leakey [19] BRT-VP-3/14 3.40±0.10 Australopithecus deyiremeda: 2015 Ethiopia Yohannes Haile-Selassie [20] Stw 573 (Little foot) 3.67 Australopithecus prometheus(?) 1994 Sterkfontein, South Africa: Ronald J. Clarke: DIK-1 (Selam) 3.30 Australopithecus ...
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]
Kenyanthropus platyops, a possible ancestor of Homo, emerges from the Australopithecus. Stone tools are deliberately constructed, possibly by Kenyanthropus platyops or Australopithecus afarensis. [34] 3 Ma The bipedal australopithecines (a genus of the subtribe Hominina) evolve in the savannas of Africa being hunted by Megantereon.
Rudolfensis may split again to place some fossils, such as 1470, with Kenyanthropus platyops. Rudolfensis also shares the name "habline." Homo ergaster: 1.8–1.4 mya 992, 730, 731, 819, 820, 3733, 3883. Considered a sort of pre-erectus if not early Homo erectus, from which it was split. Some refer to ergaster as the African erectus. [12]