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单词 Kenyapithecus
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Kenyapithecus

/ˌkɛnjəˈpɪθɪkəs/
Palaeontology
noun
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.
  • Kenyapithecus is sometimes incorporated into the genus Ramapithecus, and it sometimes comprises other species of extinct ape found in East Africa..

Origin

1960s; earliest use found in Louis Leakey (1903–1972), archaeologist and palaeoanthropologist. From scientific Latin Kenyapithecus, genus name from the name of Kenya + scientific Latin -pithecus (fossil) ape.

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