AUSTRALOPITHECUS-BAHRELGHAZALI, A NEW SPE CIES OF EARLY HOMINID FROM KORO-TORO REGION, CHAD

Authors
BRUNET M BEAUVILAIN A COPPENS Y HEINTZ E MOUTAYE AHE PILBEAM D
Citation
M. Brunet et al., AUSTRALOPITHECUS-BAHRELGHAZALI, A NEW SPE CIES OF EARLY HOMINID FROM KORO-TORO REGION, CHAD, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 322(10), 1996, pp. 907-913
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
322
Issue
10
Year of publication
1996
Pages
907 - 913
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1996)322:10<907:AANSCO>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A mandible and first upper premolar discovered in North Chad by the Fr anco-Chadian Paleoanthropological Project demonstrate for the first ti me the presence of an australopithecine west of the Rift Valley. The C had hominid presents a combination of primitive and derived characters which distinguishes it from all other early hominid taxa and which su ggests that this new species represents a clade independent since 4 Ma or more.