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Specimens of Kenyapithecus wickeri representing the family Hominidae have already been described from the Upper Miocene site at Fort Ternan, Kenya. The site has also yielded fossil remains of a member of the Hylobatidae resembling Limnopithecus; teeth of a primate closely resembling Oreopithecus; teeth of a species of Proconsul; part of a jaw which suggests the genus Dryopithecus and some teeth of the family Cercopithecoidea.
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LEAKEY, L. Upper Miocene Primates from Kenya. Nature 218, 527–528 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218527a0
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