Orrorin is an extinct genus of primate within Homininae from the Miocene Lukeino Formation and Pliocene Mabaget Formation, both of Kenya. The type species...
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Subtribe Hominina Sahelanthropus† Sahelanthropus tchadensis Orrorin† Orrorin tugenensis Orrorin praegens Ardipithecus† Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus...
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perhaps Orrorin), are supported by one community of scientists but doubted by another. Extant species are in bold. Sahelanthropus tchadensis Orrorin tugenensis...
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aethiopicus Ardipithecus Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus kadabba Orrorin Orrorin tugenensis Sahelanthropus Sahelanthropus tchadensis Graecopithecus...
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the time of the chimpanzee–human divergence, and was possibly related to Orrorin, a species of Homininae that lived about one million years later. It may...
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scientific consensus. Sahelanthropus† Sahelanthropus tchadensis Orrorin† Orrorin tugenensis Orrorin praegens Ardipithecus† Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus...
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Francisco J. Ayala proposed resurrecting the genus Praeanthropus to house Orrorin, A. afarensis, A. anamensis, A. bahrelghazali, and A. garhi, but this genus...
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fossilised molar of a Orrorin tugenensis there, and that encouraged him to return 30 years later. In 1975, he named the fossilised finds Orrorin tugenensis, which...
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earlier upright walking hominins of the Pliocene such as Australopithecus, Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus, or Sahelanthropus. Designations alternative to...
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have provided very important information regarding dental morphology. Orrorin had smaller teeth relative to body size and the enamel was thicker. The...
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