Excavation of Late Miocene hominoid in Nakali, Kenya : Phylogeny, adaptations and paleoenvironment

肯尼亚的Nakali是非洲为数不多的有1000万年历史的化石地点之一，对了解人类和现存非洲猿类的起源至关重要。该项目发现了丰富的灵长类动物群，其中包括一种大猿Nakalipithecus和其他几种卡塔林动物，并为其生态位划分和古环境提供了线索。Nakalipithecus被认为与人类和非洲猿类的最后共同祖先密切相关，并可能是希腊猿类Ouranopithecus的祖先。纳卡里的古环境以林木为主，以同域森林猿类为主。

Nakali in Kenya is one of a few 10 million-years-old fossil localities in Africa and crucial in understanding the origins of the human and extant African ape lineages. This project discovered a rich primate fauna, which includes a great ape Nakalipithecus and several other catarrhines and gave hints on their niche partitioning and paleoenvironment. Nakalipithecus is thought to be closely related to the last common ancestor of human and African apes and possibly to be ancestral to the Greek ape Ouranopithecus. The paleoenvironment in Nakali included a wooded component largely and was occupied with sympatric forest-dwelling apes and monkeys.