The 3 Million Year Old Ape of Chad
KT12
Found: January 1995
By: French and Chadian Team of Palaeontologists
Locality: Bahr El Ghazal, Koro Toro, northern Chad
Comprising: A distorted cranium and third premolar
Lived: 3 - 3.5 million years
Species Attribution: Australopithecus bahrelghazali
Alternative Attribution: Australopithecus afarensis
Diet: Predominantly C4 Plants (Sedges, Grasses)
Characteristics that set it apart from Au. afarensis: Thicker enamel than Ardipithecus ramidus and gracile symphysis.
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Scientific Papers:
1996 - Michel et al - Australopithecus bahrelghazali, une nouvelle espèce d'Hominidé ancien de la région de Koro Toro (Tchad) (Australopithecus bahrelghazali, a new species of early hominid from Koro Toro region, Chad)
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3082726
2008 - Lebatard et al - Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Australopithecus bahrelghazali: Mio-Pliocene hominids from Chad
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/9/3226.full.pdf+html
2008 - Beauvilain - The contexts of discovery of Australopithecus bahrelghazali (Abel)and of Sahelanthropus tchadensis(Toumaï): unearthed, embedded in sandstone, or surface collected?
http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/sajs/v104n5-6/a0310406.pdf
2013 - Wynn et al - Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3696813/
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