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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.
Shortly after, Heselon discovered Kenyapithecus wickeri, named after the owner of the property. Louis promptly celebrated with George Gaylord Simpson, who happened to be present, aboard the Miocene Lady with "Leakey Safari Specials", a drink made of condensed milk and cognac.
This site was discovered by Louis Leakey in a 1928 expedition in the exposed Kariandusi riverbed. [2] Leakey graduated St. John's College, Cambridge in 1926 with some of the best grades in his graduating class. Due to his success, St. John's awarded Leakey a research grant for his first East African Archaeological Expedition. [3]
Fossils of the Middle Miocene 14 million [4] year old ape Kenyapithecus wickeri were first found by Louis Leakey near Fort Ternan in 1962. There is a prehistoric site and museum about 15 kilometers from Fort Ternan Town, though the fossils themselves are housed at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi.
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.
Von Koenigswald studied the relationships between African, Asian and European hominoid fossils attributed to Ramapithecus or its close allies such as Graecopithecus of Greece and Kenyapithecus of Fort Ternan, Kenya. It was his opinion that the Indian form was a hominid and the African form a pongid.
The holotype of O. tugenensis. The first part of the holotype, a lower molar, was discovered by Martin Pickford in 1974 and described by Pickford (1975). [4]The team that found the rest of the holotype of O. tugenensis was led by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford from the French National Museum of Natural History. [1]
Ekembo nyanzae, originally classed as a species of Proconsul, is a species of fossil primate first discovered by Louis Leakey on Rusinga Island in 1942, which he published in Nature in 1943. It is also known by the name Dryopithecus africanus.