Orrorin
Postulated early hominin discovered in Kenya / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Orrorin is an extinct genus of primate within Homininae from the Miocene Lukeino Formation and Pliocene Mabaget Formation, both of Kenya.
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Orrorin | |
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The holotype of O. tugenensis | |
The distal phalanx of the thumb of O. tugenensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Hominidae |
Subfamily: | Homininae |
Tribe: | Hominini |
Genus: | †Orrorin Senut et al. 2001 |
Type species | |
†Orrorin tugenensis Senut et al., 2001 | |
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The type species is O. tugenenesis, named in 2001,[1] and a second species, O. praegens,[2] assigned to the genus in 2022.[3]