Orrorin

Orrorin
Temporal range: Late Miocene-Pliocene, 6.1–4.5 Ma
Cast of O. tugenensis femur (BAR 1002'00), National Museum of Natural History
The distal phalanx of the thumb of O. tugenensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Orrorin
Senut et al. 2001
Type species
Orrorin tugenensis
Senut et al., 2001
Other species
Synonyms

Orrorin is an extinct genus of primate within Homininae from the Miocene Lukeino Formation and Pliocene Mabaget Formation, both of Kenya.

The type species is O. tugenenesis, named in 2001,[1] and a second species, O. praegens,[2] assigned to the genus in 2022.[3]

  1. ^ Senut et al. 2001
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Pickford, Martin; Senut, Brigitte; Gommery, Dominique; Kipkech, Joseph (2022). "New Pliocene hominid fossils from Baringo County, Kenya". Fossil Imprint. 78 (2): 451–488. doi:10.37520/fi.2022.020. ISSN 2533-4069. S2CID 255055545.