Late Miocene hominoid from Niger |
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| Authors: | Martin Pickford Yves Coppens Brigitte Senut Jorge Morales José Braga |
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| Institution: | 1. Collège de France, 11, place M.-Berthelot, 75012 Paris, France;2. UMR 5143, CNRS, département d’histoire de la Terre, USM 203, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, case postale 38, 8, rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France;3. Paleobiologia, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutierrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain;4. Anthropobiologie et imagerie anatomique, CNRS FRE 2960, université Paul-Sabatier, 39, allées Jules-Guesde, 31000 Toulouse, France |
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| Abstract: | African Late Miocene hominoids are rare, having been reported from six localities in Kenya, Ethiopia and Chad ranging in age from 10.5 to 5.5 Ma. We here report the occurrence of a hominoid in Niger associated with a vertebrate fauna which indicates an age of between 11–5 Ma. The Niger fossil locality is 940 km north of the nearest known extant hominoids, 1000 km west of the nearest recorded fossil hominoid from Chad. |
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