Orrorin
| Orrorin Temporal range: Late Miocene-Pliocene,
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| Cast of O. tugenensis femur (BAR 1002'00), National Museum of Natural History | |
| The distal phalanx of the thumb of O. tugenensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Homininae |
| Tribe: | Hominini |
| Genus: | †Orrorin Senut et al. 2001 |
| Type species | |
| †Orrorin tugenensis Senut et al., 2001
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| Other species | |
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| Synonyms | |
Orrorin is an extinct genus of great ape within the tribe of Hominini from the Miocene Lukeino Formation and Pliocene Mabaget Formation, both of Kenya.
The type species is O. tugenensis, named in 2001, and a second species, O. praegens, was assigned to the genus in 2022.