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Turkanapithecus kalakolensis skull


Skull of Turkanapithecus kalakolensis (Nat.His.Mus.Paris, cast) 

Turkanapithecus kalakolensis is a Miocene hominoid found by Richard and Meave Leakey in 1986 at Kalodirr, in the Lothidok Formation at West Turkana, Kenya, dated at 20.43-15.97 mya. The type specimen (KNM-WK 16950A and B) is a partial skull and mandible. 

Turkanapithecus is a member of the Proconsulidae family, and considered to have lived as a scansorial insectivore.



Reference:

Leakey, R.E. and M. G. Leakey. 1986. A second new Miocene hominoid from Kenya. Nature  324(13):146-148
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