Nakalipithecus
species of mammal
Nakalipithecus nakayamai is a fossil ape species. It was a discovery of a 10-million-year-old jawbone with teeth, in a volcanic mud in Nakali, Kenya. N. nakayamai is thought to have lived around 9.9 million to 9.8 million years ago. More teeth were found in the same place; eleven of them are thought to belong to this specimen.
Nakalipithecus Temporal range: Tortonian,
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Top and side views of the Nakalipithecus holotype, a jawbone and the molars | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Superfamily: | Hominoidea |
Family: | Hominidae |
Genus: | †Nakalipithecus Kunimatsu et al., 2007 |
Species: | †N. nakayamai
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Binomial name | |
Nakalipithecus nakayamai Kunimatsu et al., 2007
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