Excavation and Analysis of Middle Miocene Primates and Associated Fauna at Maboko Island, Kenya

这次在维多利亚湖继续挖掘岛屿的目的是重建旧大陆猴子和类人猿的进化分化。它将包括对高产灵长类化石产区附近的沉积物进行挖掘。自1987年以来，该地区发现了许多重要的发现，包括两个新的丛林婴儿物种，东半球猴子Victoriapithecus的一个完整而未变形的头骨，以及Kenyapithecus的颅后遗骸，这表明它是化石记录中最早的半陆生祖先原始人。该项目这一阶段的一个主要重点还将放在出版描述以及对这个产量惊人的遗址发现的6000多个化石的系统发育和功能解释上。

The goal of this continued excavation of an island in Lake Victoria is to reconstruct the evolutionary divergence of Old World monkeys and apes. It will include excavations of sediments adjacent to highly productive productive primate fossil-bearing areas. Since 1987, the locality has produced many important finds including two new species of bushbabies, a compoete and undistorted skull fo the ancestral Old World monkey Victoriapithecus, and postcranial remains of Kenyapithecus which demonstrate that it is the earliest semiterrestrial ancestral hominoid in the fossil record. A major emphasis of this phase of the project will also be placed on publishing descriptions as well as phylogenetic and functional interpretations of the more than 6,000 fossil finds from this incredibly productive site.