| Orrorin Temporal range: Late Miocene-Pliocene,
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| Cast of O. tugenensis femur (BAR 1002'00), National Museum of Natural History | |
| The distal phalanx of the thumb of O. tugenensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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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]
- ^ Senut et al. 2001
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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.