Kenyapithecus kizili
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| middle Miocene | ||||||||||||
| 15.0 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Kenyapithecus kizili | ||||||||||||
| Jay Kelley et al. , 2008 | ||||||||||||
Kenyapithecus kizili is an extinct species of primates in the genus Kenyapithecus that was foundin Turkey during the Middle Miocene . In the area of the Paşalar site in western Anatolia , mostly individually found fossil teeth, whichwere attributed to Kenyapithecus kizili in 2008, come from a layer of earth whose age was dated around 15 million years ago. Previously,the assumption hadalready been made in 1993 on the basis of incisors foundthat around ten percent of the primates found in the fossilized layer of the earth could belong to a species that had not yet been identified.
Naming
Kenyapithecus is an artificial word . The name of the genus is derived from the place where the first specimens of the species in Kenya ( Engl. : Kenya) and from the Greek word πίθηκος ( ancient Greek spoken píthēkos : "Monkey"). The epithet kizili means “red” in Turkish and refers to the “Red Mountain” ( Kizil Tepe ), which towers over the Paşalar excavation site, which was discovered during road construction in the late 1960s. Kenyapithecus kizili means "Kenya monkey from the red mountain".
Initial description
In the first description, a left upper jaw fragment with two preserved teeth - a 3rd premolar and a 2nd molar - was identified as the holotype of Kenyapithecus kizili , which is kept at Ankara University under archive number L1620. In addition, reference was made to more than 70 other individually found teeth, in particular to selected incisors , canines and premolars. In the first description, some fossils that other authors had previously referred to as Sivapithecus darwini were also assigned to the new species ; was deferred kenyapithecus kizili particular the genus Griphopithecus and especially to "in almost all the features" very similar type kenyapithecus wickeri .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jay Kelley, Peter Andrews , Berna Alpagut: A new hominoid species from the middle Miocene site of Paşalar, Turkey. In: Journal of Human Evolution , Volume 54, No. 4, 2008, pp. 455-479, doi: 10.1016 / j.jhevol.2007.08.007
- ^ LB Martin, P. Andrews: Species recognition in middle Miocene hominoids. In: WH Kimbel, LH Martin (Ed.): Species, species concepts, and primate evolution. Plenum Press, New York 1993, pp. 393-427