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Australopithecus bahrelghazali is an extinct species of australopithecine discovered in 1995 at Koro Toro, Bahr el Gazel, Chad, existing around 3.5 million years ago in the Pliocene. It is the first and only australopithecine known from Central Africa , and demonstrates that this group was widely distributed across Africa as opposed to being ...
Australopithecus fossils become more widely dispersed throughout eastern and southern Africa (the Chadian A. bahrelghazali indicates that the genus was much more widespread than the fossil record suggests), before eventually becoming pseudo-extinct 1.9 million years ago (or 1.2 to 0.6 million years ago if Paranthropus is included).
Abel (KT-12/H1) [1] is the name given to the only specimen ever discovered of Australopithecus bahrelghazali.Abel was found in January 1995 in Chad in the Kanem Region by the paleontologist Michel Brunet, [2] who named the fossil "Abel" in memory of his close friend Abel Brillanceau, who had died of malaria in 1989.
Australopithecus bahrelghazali: 3.5 mya Koro Toro: A mandible. Toumaï [55] TM 266-01-060-1 Sahelanthropus tchadensis: 7-6 mya Djurab Desert: A cranium and limb bone Kadanuumuu, Big Man [56] KSD-VP-1/1 Australopithecus afarensis: 3.58 mya Karabo [57] MH1 Wits University: Australopithecus sediba: 1.8 mya Malapa Cave: A partial skeleton. Issa [58 ...
Members of Australopithecus are sometimes referred to as the "gracile australopithecines", ... (=Praeanthropus bahrelghazali) Paranthropus. Paranthropus robustus;
Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa. The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would not take place until the 1970s.
Some, including Paranthropus, Ardipithecus, and Australopithecus, are broadly thought to be ancestral and closely related to Homo; [26] others, especially earlier genera, including Sahelanthropus (and perhaps Orrorin), are supported by one community of scientists but doubted by another. [27] [28]
Australopithecus anamensis: 1984 Kenya: Kiptalam Cheboi [11] KNM-KP 271 4.00 [15] Australopithecus anamensis: 1965 Kanapoi, Kenya: Bryan Patterson [11] Laetoli Footprints: 3.70 Bipedal hominin: 1976 Tanzania: Mary Leakey: LH 4: 3.40±0.50 Australopithecus afarensis: 1974 Laetoli, Tanzania: Mary Leakey [16] KSD-VP-1/1 3.58 Australopithecus ...