Nakalipithecus
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.
| Nakalipithecus Temporal range: Tortonian, | |
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| Top and side views of the Nakalipithecus holotype, a jawbone and the molars | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Superfamily: | Hominoidea |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Genus: | †Nakalipithecus Kunimatsu et al., 2007 |
| Species: | †N. nakayamai |
| Binomial name | |
| Nakalipithecus nakayamai Kunimatsu et al., 2007 | |
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