Orrorin
Orrorin is an extinct genus of primate within Homininae from the Miocene Lukeino Formation and Pliocene Mabaget Formation, both of Kenya.
| Orrorin Temporal range: Late Miocene-Pliocene, | |
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| The holotype of O. tugenensis | |
| The distal phalanx of the thumb of O. tugenensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Homininae |
| Tribe: | Hominini |
| Genus: | †Orrorin Senut et al. 2001 |
| Type species | |
| †Orrorin tugenensis Senut et al., 2001 | |
| Other species | |
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| Synonyms | |
The type species is O. tugenenesis, named in 2001, and a second species, O. praegens, assigned to the genus in 2022.
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