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

肯尼亚的纳卡利是非洲少数几个有1000万年历史的化石产地之一，对于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，其中包括一种大型猿类Nakalipithecus和其他几种卡他目动物，并对它们的生态位划分和古环境提供了线索。Nakalipithecus被认为与人类和非洲类人猿的最后一个共同祖先关系密切，并可能是希腊类人猿Ouranopithecus的祖先。纳卡利的古环境主要包括一片树林，居住在森林中的类人猿和猴子占据了很大的空间。

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.