Question

tell me about kenyanthorpus platyus please.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Very little is known about Kenyanthropus platyops—a flat-faced, small-brained, bipedal species living about 3.5 million years ago in Kenya. Kenyanthropus inhabited Africa at the same time as Lucy’s species Australopithecus afarensis, and could represent a closer branch to modern humans than Lucy’s on the evolutionary tree. Before the discovery of the only known skull of this species in 1999, the earliest fossil evidence known for a flat-faced early human, a significant shift in skull structure, was around 2 million years ago.

Year of Discovery: 1999

Answer 2

Kenyanthropus is a 3.5 to 3.2-million-year-old hominin fossil discovered in Lake Turkana, Kenya in 1999 by Justus Erus, who was part of Meave Leakey's team. Wikipedia

Scientific name:- Kenyanthropus platyops

Higher classification:- Kenyanthropus

Phylum:- Chordata

Order:- Primate

Rank:- Species

Family:- Hominidae