Australopithecus bahrelghazali
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| †Australopithecus bahrelghazali Brunet et al., 1995 |
Australopithecus bahrelghazali is a fossil hominin that was first discovered in January 1995 by the paleontologist Michel Brunet in the Bahr el Ghazal valley near Koro Toro, in Chad, that Brunet named Abel. The findings were located roughly 2,500 kilometers West from the East African Great Rift Valley and were only a few teeth and a partial jaw found in deposits thought to be 3.0 to 3.5 million years old. The mandible KT-12 discovered has similar features to the dentation of Australopithecus afarensis; this has brought researchears like William Kimbel to argue that Abel is not an exemplar of a separate species, but "falls within the range of variation" of the Australopithecus afarensis. This species is a mystery to some as it is the only australopithecine fossil found in Central Africa. It is also of great importance as it was the first fossil to show that geographically there is a "a third window" of early hominid evolution.
External links
- http://www.msu.edu/~heslipst/contents/ANP440/bahrelghazali.htm
- http://www.columbia.edu/itc/anthropology/v1007/2002projects/web/australopithecus/austro.html
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Part of the series on Human evolutionSahelanthropus tchadensis • Orrorin tugenensis • Ardipithecus
Australopithecus: A. anamensis • A. afarensis • A. bahrelghazali • A. africanus • A. garhi
Paranthropus: P. aethiopicus • P. boisei • P. robustus
Homo: H. habilis • H. rudolfensis • H. georgicus • H. ergaster • H. erectus (H. e. lantianensis • H. e. palaeojavanicus • H. e. pekinensis • H. e. soloensis) • H. cepranensis • H. antecessor • H. heidelbergensis • H. neanderthalensis • H. rhodesiensis • H. floresiensis • Homo sapiens (H. s. idaltu • H. s. sapiens)
Categories
Early hominids | African archaeology