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A recently discovered early Miocene site in northern Kenya (see preceding paper1) has yielded a number of important fossil hominoid specimens including a partial cranium, mandible and postcranial remains of a medium-sized ape that is distinct from all previously reported genera. The relationship of this taxon to other known hominoids is not clear. A new genus of large hominoid was found at the same site1. The recovery of two new genera of Miocene hominoids which are apparently not represented at the well known and rich Miocene localities of western Kenya may indicate that a different ecology is being sampled.
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Leakey, R., Leakey, M. A second new Miocene hominoid from Kenya. Nature 324, 146–148 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/324146a0
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