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    Kapcheberek are found in the upper levels of the formation (5.7 Ma). Orrorin tugenensis was named and described by Senut et al. (2001). The second species...
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    earliest members of genus Homo. In the year 2000, the discovery of Orrorin tugenensis, dated as early as 6.2 Mya, briefly challenged critical elements of...
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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 Ar. kadabba...
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    scientific consensus. Sahelanthropus† Sahelanthropus tchadensis OrrorinOrrorin tugenensis Orrorin praegens Ardipithecus† Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus...
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    tchadensis, commonly called "Toumai", is about seven million years old and Orrorin tugenensis lived at least six million years ago. Since little is known of them...
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  • 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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    aethiopicus Ardipithecus Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus kadabba Orrorin Orrorin tugenensis Sahelanthropus Sahelanthropus tchadensis Graecopithecus Graecopithecus...
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    molar of a Orrorin tugenensis there, and that encouraged him to return 30 years later. In 1975, he named the fossilised finds Orrorin tugenensis, which means:...
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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 Ar. kadabba...
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    Gorillini lineage. Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford, the discoverers of Orrorin tugenensis, suggested that the features of S. tchadensis are consistent with...
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    Martin Pickford together with Brigitte Senut and their team discovered Orrorin tugenensis, a hominid primate species dated between 5.8 and 6.2 million years...
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    theory. Another hominid fossil consisting of a 6-million-year-old Orrorin tugenensis femur (BAR 1003'00), recovered from the Tugen Hills in Kenya, preserves...
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  • took place approximately six to seven million years ago evident in Orrorin tugenensis. These hominin were some of the first bipeds who propagated forward...
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    upright walking hominins of the Pliocene such as Australopithecus, Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus, or Sahelanthropus. Designations alternative to Hominina...
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  • (Australopithecus afarensis), and the 6.1- to 5.8-million-year-old Millennium Man Orrorin tugenensis. He devoted much of his career to the study of the lemurs of Madagascar...
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    5-million-year-old Kenyanthropus platyops in 2001, the 6-million-year-old Orrorin tugenensis in 2001, and the 7- to 6-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis...
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  • In 2000, Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford described the species Orrorin tugenensis, based on fossils they found in Kenya. In 2004, Yohannes Haile-Selassie...
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  • used as evidence of bipedal locomotion in the hominins. The fossil Orrorin tugenensis (6-7 mya) possesses the obturator externus groove, which suggests...
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  • 2000 Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford found the 6 million year old Orrorin tugenensis in Kenya. The skeleton seems to indicate both bipedalism and good...
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    Ahounta Djimdoumalbaye N'Djamena (Chad), BEAC BAR 1000'00 6.1–5.7 Orrorin tugenensis 2000 Kenya Site:Lukeino Martin Pickford, Kiptalam Cheboi, Dominique...
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    Oreopithecus Sivapithecus Sahelanthropus Graecopithecus Orrorin (O. praegens) (O. tugenensis) Ardipithecus (Ar. kadabba) (Ar. ramidus) Australopithecus...
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    puts the Trachilos footprints in the same period as the fossils of Orrorin tugenensis from Kenya. The footprints were measured to range at 94-223 mm (3...
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  • Formation, a lower molar, which is included within the holotype of Orrorin tugenensis. The rest of the holotype was found by Pickford and Brigitte Senut...
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    by Martin Pickford in the year 2000, is the six million year old Orrorin tugenensis, named after the Tugen Hills where it was unearthed. It is the second...
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    sabre-toothed marsupial of South America. Australopithecines diversify. Orrorin tugenensis, possible hominin. Apparent hominin footprints near Trachilos, on...
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  • Oreopithecus Sivapithecus Sahelanthropus Graecopithecus Orrorin (O. praegens) (O. tugenensis) Ardipithecus (Ar. kadabba) (Ar. ramidus) Australopithecus...
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    Oreopithecus Sivapithecus Sahelanthropus Graecopithecus Orrorin (O. praegens) (O. tugenensis) Ardipithecus (Ar. kadabba) (Ar. ramidus) Australopithecus...
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    Oreopithecus Sivapithecus Sahelanthropus Graecopithecus Orrorin (O. praegens) (O. tugenensis) Ardipithecus (Ar. kadabba) (Ar. ramidus) Australopithecus...
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  • of Orrorin tugenensis and Ardipithecus ramidus is published by Grabowski, Hatala & Jungers (2018). A study comparing the calcar femorale of Orrorin tugenensis...
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  • the surrounding rock as six million years old. The find was named Orrorin tugenensis (Senut et al 2001). Later finds were made in the village of Rondinin...
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