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Orrorin is an
extinct genus of
primate within Homininae from the
Miocene Lukeino Formation and
Pliocene Mabaget Formation, both of Kenya. The type species...
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Subtribe Hominina Sahelanthropus†
Sahelanthropus tchadensis Orrorin†
Orrorin tugenensis Orrorin praegens Ardipithecus†
Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus...
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perhaps Orrorin), are
supported by one
community of
scientists but
doubted by another.
Extant species are in bold.
Sahelanthropus tchadensis Orrorin tugenensis...
- and Kenyanthropus), and it
typically includes the
earlier Ardipithecus,
Orrorin, Sahelanthropus, and (sometimes) Graecopithecus. All
these closely related...
- the time of the chimpanzee–human divergence, and was
possibly related to
Orrorin, a
species of
Homininae that
lived about one
million years later. It may...
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scientific consensus. Sahelanthropus†
Sahelanthropus tchadensis Orrorin†
Orrorin tugenensis Orrorin praegens Ardipithecus†
Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus...
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Francisco J.
Ayala proposed resurrecting the
genus Praeanthropus to
house Orrorin, A. afarensis, A. anamensis, A. bahrelghazali, and A. garhi, but this genus...
- have
provided very
important information regarding dental morphology.
Orrorin had
smaller teeth relative to body size and the
enamel was thicker. The...
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belong to the
human lineage are
Sahelanthropus tchadensis (7 Ma) and
Orrorin tugenensis (6 Ma),
followed by
Ardipithecus (5.5–4.4 Ma), with species...
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earlier upright walking hominins of the
Pliocene such as Australopithecus,
Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus, or Sahelanthropus.
Designations alternative to...
