Kenyapithecusn.

Brit.

/ˌkɛnjəˈpɪθᵻkəs/, U.S.

/ˌkɛnjəˈpɪθəkəs/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Kenyapithecus.

Etymology: < scientific Latin Kenyapithecus, genus name (L. S. B. Leakey 1961: see quot. 1961) < the name of Kenya (see Kenya n.) + scientific Latin -pithecus (fossil) ape (see Pliopithecus n.).

Palaeontology.

An extinct ape, Kenyapithecus wickeri, known from Middle Miocene fossil remains found at Fort Ternan, Kenya, dated to about 14 million years ago, and regarded by some as the ancestor of all great apes. Also: the genus Kenyapithecus itself. Kenyapithecus is sometimes incorporated into the genus Ramapithecus, and it sometimes comprises other species of extinct ape found in East Africa.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > fossil or extinct types

Dryopithecus1862

Sivapithecus1915

Australopithecus1925

Proconsul1933

Ramapithecus1934

Plesianthropus1938

australopithecine1941

australopith1949

Kenyapithecus1961

ramapithecine1972

Afropithecus1986

1961 L. S. B. Leakey in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4 690 The following is a diagnosis and preliminary description of this new Kenya Lower Pliocene primate. Super-Family Hominoidea. Family Incertae sedis. Genus Kenyapithecus gen. nov... The type of the genus is the new species Kenyapithecus wickeri described below.

1963 Sci. News Let. 9 Mar. 154/2 Kenyapithecus seems to have had the potential of speech.

1996 New Scientist 30 Nov. 16/2 With it were the fossil teeth of prehistoric pigs and a carnivore known as a bear-dog—species whose traces palaeontologists have uncovered alongside those of Kenyapithecus.

2009 M. Firestone Kenya (ed. 7) 23 The fossil beds incorporate that most elusive period of human history between 14 and 4 million years ago when the largely primate Kenyapithecus evolved into our earliest bipedal ancestor Australopithecus afarensis.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	kenyapithecus
释义	Kenyapithecusn. Brit. /ˌkɛnjəˈpɪθᵻkəs/, U.S. /ˌkɛnjəˈpɪθəkəs/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Kenyapithecus. Etymology: < scientific Latin Kenyapithecus, genus name (L. S. B. Leakey 1961: see quot. 1961) < the name of Kenya (see Kenya n.) + scientific Latin -pithecus (fossil) ape (see Pliopithecus n.). Palaeontology. An extinct ape, Kenyapithecus wickeri, known from Middle Miocene fossil remains found at Fort Ternan, Kenya, dated to about 14 million years ago, and regarded by some as the ancestor of all great apes. Also: the genus Kenyapithecus itself. Kenyapithecus is sometimes incorporated into the genus Ramapithecus, and it sometimes comprises other species of extinct ape found in East Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > fossil or extinct types Dryopithecus1862 Sivapithecus1915 Australopithecus1925 Proconsul1933 Ramapithecus1934 Plesianthropus1938 australopithecine1941 australopith1949 Kenyapithecus1961 ramapithecine1972 Afropithecus1986 1961 L. S. B. Leakey in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4 690 The following is a diagnosis and preliminary description of this new Kenya Lower Pliocene primate. Super-Family Hominoidea. Family Incertae sedis. Genus Kenyapithecus gen. nov... The type of the genus is the new species Kenyapithecus wickeri described below. 1963 Sci. News Let. 9 Mar. 154/2 Kenyapithecus seems to have had the potential of speech. 1996 New Scientist 30 Nov. 16/2 With it were the fossil teeth of prehistoric pigs and a carnivore known as a bear-dog—species whose traces palaeontologists have uncovered alongside those of Kenyapithecus. 2009 M. Firestone Kenya (ed. 7) 23 The fossil beds incorporate that most elusive period of human history between 14 and 4 million years ago when the largely primate Kenyapithecus evolved into our earliest bipedal ancestor Australopithecus afarensis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1961
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