New higher primates from the early Miocene of Buluk, Kenya

Abstract

The important early Miocene site of Buluk, Northern Kenya1, was re-surveyed in 1983. As a result, the faunal list for this site has been expanded and, as we report here, now includes three hominoid and at least one cercopithecoid species. Some of the species were known previously only from North African sites, but others are typically East African. Only Proconsul species have been found before at other East African Miocene sites of equivalent age, but the largest hominoid species from Buluk is an early species of Sivapithecus.