What is Nakalipithecus?
{{italic title}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = [[Tortonian]], {{fossil range|9.9|9.8}} | image = Nakalipithecus mandible.jpg | image_caption = Top and side views of the ''Nakalipithecus'' [[holotype]], a jawbone and the [[molar tooth|molars]] | display_parents = 3 | genus = Nakalipithecus | parent_authority = [[Yutaka Kunimatsu|Kunimatsu]] et al., 2007 | species = nakayamai | authority = [[Yutaka Kunimatsu|Kunimatsu]] et al., 2007 }} '''''Nakalipithecus nakayamai''''' is a [[fossil]] [[ape]] [[species]]. It was a discovery of a 10-million-year-old [[jawbone]] with [[teeth]], in a [[volcanic]] [[mud]] in Nakali, [[Kenya]]. ''N. nakayamai'' is thought to have lived around 9.9 million to 9.8 million years ago. More teeth were found in the same place; eleven of them are thought to belong to this specimen. == Other websites == *[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21761002/ New ancient ape species discovered] *[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/science/13obape.html?ref=science Jawbone sheds light on divergence of humans and apes] [[Category:Fossils]] [[Category:Hominids]] {{biology-stub}}