@article{0bfc9a7eb51e430f9203d119115effd2,
title = "A new species of mioeuoticus (lorisiformes, primates) from the early middle miocene of Kenya",
abstract = "We here describe a prosimian specimen discovered from the early Middle Miocene (~15 Ma) of Nachola, northern Kenya. It is a right maxilla that preserves P4-M3, and is assigned to a new species of the Miocene lorisid genus Mioeuoticus. Previously, Mioeuoticus was known from the Early Miocene of East Africa. The Nachola specimen is therefore the first discovery of this genus from the Middle Miocene. The presence of a new lorisid species in the Nachola fauna indicates a forested paleoenvironment for this locality, consistent with previously known evidence including the abundance of large-bodied hominoid fossils (Nacholapithecus kerioi), the dominance of browsers among the herbivore fauna, and the presence of plenty of petrified wood.",
keywords = "East Africa, Lorisidae, Middle miocene, Mioeuoticus, Prosimians",
author = "Yutaka Kunimatsu and Hiroshi Tsujikawa and Masato Nakatsukasa and Daisuke Shimizu and Naomichi Ogihara and Yasuhiro Kikuchi and Yoshihiko Nakano and Tomo Takano and Naoki Morimoto and Hidemi Ishida",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the government of Kenya for permitting us to carry out our research in Kenya, and the staff of the National Museums of Kenya for their assistance in laboratory and fieldwork. Our gratitude goes to the people of the village of Nachola for their long-term assistance during our fieldwork. The Nairobi Research Station of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science has provided us with much assistance for the fieldwork in Kenya. We are also grateful to T. Harrison for the information on the specimens of M. bishopi from Songhor and Rusinga. We also thank the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University for the support through the Cooperation Research Program. This study was financially supported by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (#13375005, #20247033, #22257408, #24570254). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 The Anthropological Society of Nippon.",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1537/ase.170322",
language = "English",
volume = "125",
pages = "59--65",
journal = "Anthropological Science",
issn = "0918-7960",
publisher = "Anthropological Society of Nippon",
number = "2",
}