title: First record of a parapithecid primate from the Oligocene of Kenya.
abstract: Recent excavations in northwestern Kenya have recovered a vertebrate fauna of late early or early late Oligocene age. Among the mammal remains, a fragmentary lower jaw and an isolated upper molar have been attributed to a small primate, Lokonepithecus manai gen. et sp. nov. Lokonepithecus is a primitive member of the Parapithecidae and possibly most closely related to Apidium from the Fayum. The new primate from Kenya is the youngest parapithecid known and its occurrence in the Oligocene of Kenya suggests that sub-Saharan Africa probably played a major role in the evolutionary history of several groups of mammals.
authors.affiliation: iPHEP, Institut de Paléoprimatologie et Paléontologie Humaine, Evolution et Paléoenvironnements, UMR CNRS 6046, Faculté des Sciences de Poitiers, 40 avenue du Recteur Pineau, F-86022 Poitiers cedex, France. stephane.ducrocq@univ-poitiers.fr
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ducrocq
authors.forename: Fredrick Kyalo
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Manthi
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lihoreau
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D051079:Catarrhini / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005580:Fossils; D007568:Jaw / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007630:Kenya; D008963:Molar / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D010163:Paleontology; D010802:Phylogeny