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Kamoyapithecus

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Kamoyapithecus (Kamoya + Greek -pithekos “ape”) was a primate that lived in Africa during the late Oligocene period, about 24.2-27.5 million years ago. [1]

22 relations: Africa, Afropithecus, Animal, Catarrhini, Chordate, Incisor, Jaw, Kamoya Kimeu, Mammal, Mandible, Maxilla, Meave Leakey, Morotopithecus, Oligocene, Primate, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Proconsul (primate), Proconsulidae, Tooth, Tooth enamel, University of California, Berkeley, X-ray.

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Afropithecus

Afropithecus turkanensis is a Miocene hominoid which was excavated from a small site near Lake Turkana called Kalodirr in northern Kenya in 1986 and was named by Richard Leakey and Meave Leakey.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Catarrhini

Catarrhini is one of the two subdivisions of the simians, the other being the plathyrrhine (New World monkeys).

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Incisor

Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.

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Jaw

The jaw is any opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth, typically used for grasping and manipulating food.

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Kamoya Kimeu

Kamoya Kimeu, (born 1940) is one of the world's most successful fossil collectors who, together with paleontologists Meave Leakey and Richard Leakey, is responsible for some of the most significant paleoanthropological discoveries.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Mandible

The mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human face.

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Maxilla

The maxilla (plural: maxillae) in animals is the upper jawbone formed from the fusion of two maxillary bones.

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Meave Leakey

Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps on 28 July 1942 in London, England) is a British paleoanthropologist.

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Morotopithecus

Morotopithecus bishopi is a species of fossil ape discovered in Miocene-age deposits of Moroto, Uganda.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is the official scientific journal of the National Academy of Sciences, published since 1915.

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Proconsul (primate)

Proconsul is an extinct genus of primates that existed from 23 to 25 million years ago during the Miocene epoch.

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Proconsulidae

Proconsulidae is an early family of primates that lived during the Miocene epoch in Kenya, and was restricted to Africa.

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Tooth

A tooth (plural teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

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Tooth enamel

Tooth enamel is one of the four major tissues that make up the tooth in humans and many other animals, including some species of fish.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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X-ray

X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamoyapithecus

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