The vertebrate and invertebrate remains were further sorted in the UGM lab by broad taxonomic group for further designation into the lowest taxonomic level possible whether that be order, family, genus or species. Identification and quantification methods followed1. In most cases identification could on...
Sahelanthropus tchadensisfrom the site of Toros-Menalla, Chad (Figure 1), discovered by the Mission Paléoanthropologique Franco-Tchadienne (Brunetet al. 2002), may be the oldest hominin recovered thus far. However, the age ofSahelanthropuswas first determinedbiochronologically(Vignaudet a...
It clearly points to the gradual evolution of multiple neural and cognitive properties in the hominin lineage, which support a range of cognitive computations, including language processing. First, it is important to consider what eventually evolved although the properties of ml-CC are controversially ...
The oldest fossil malaria mosquito species, Anopheles rottensis, was found in the Upper Oligocene (Chattian) lacustrine strata of the Rott Formation of Germany (Harbach, 2013; Statz, 1944). However, the genus may have been established earlier, presumably sometime in the Upper Eocene epoch. ...
Dating to ~0.7Ma, these fossils now constitute the oldest hominin remains from Flores. The Mata Menge mandible and teeth are similar in dimensions and morphological characteristics to those of H. floresiensis from Liang Bua. The exception is the mandibular first molar, which retains a more ...
(CNRS), and its Chadian partners analyzed three limb bones fromSahelanthropus tchadensis, the earliest known representative of the human genus. The study, which was recently published in the journalNature, supports the hypothesis that bipedalism was developed extremely early in human history, at a...
As the scientific relevance of Plio-Pleistocene bone-bearing cave deposits for hominin evolution would be recognised only a few years later (Dart, 1925), and because Brown himself did not consider it one of his “chief specimens”, perhaps the breccia specimen was not deemed important enough to...
The earliest hominin that scientists placed in the genus Homo is (a) H. habilis (b) H. ergaster (c) H. erectus (d) H. heidelbergensis (e) H. neanderthalensisWhich of the following is the oldest in the hominin lineage? A) Homo erectu...
The origin of crown group marsupials is thereby constrained by the age of the oldest fossils attributed to Marsupialia: the oldest known species of Peradectes (for example, P. minor) are from the early Palaeocene (middle Puercan, ca. 65.1 Myr ago)32, whereas the oldest known species of ...
Although additional studies are needed to assess common patterns, the reptile and amphibians essentially exhibit some of the oldest species known from the SEAMA (e.g., Nothophryne broadleyi, 18.65 Mya; Atheris mabuensis, 15 Mya). Amongst the chameleons, Rhampholeon and Nadzikambia (Fig. 5f,...