Hidemi Ishida: 40 Years of Footprints in Japanese Primatology and Paleoanthropology

Nacholapithecus and its importance for understanding hominoid evolution

“…11,12 The team established a base camp in Nachola, a small village located 15 km west of Baragoi along the main road stretching from Mararal (Samburu District Capital) to Lake Turkana. During the first season of fieldwork, they found a maxillary fragment of a large hominoid at the SH 22 fossil site which was later named Samburupithecus kiptalami.…”