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Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid locality, Chad.

Vignaud, Patrick, Duringer, Philippe, Mackaye, Hassane Taïsso, Likius, Andossa, Blondel, Cécile, Boisserie, Jean-Renaud, de Bonis, Louis, Eisenmann, Véra, Etienne, Marie-Esther, Geraads, Denis, Guy, Franck, Lehmann, Thomas, Lihoreau, Fabrice, Lopez-Martinez, Nieves, Mourer-Chauviré, Cécile, Otero, Olga, Rage, Jean-Claude, Schuster, Mathieu, Viriot, Laurent, Zazzo, Antoine, Brunet, Michel·2002·Nature

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All six known specimens of the early hominid Sahelanthropus tchadensis come from Toros-Menalla site 266 (TM 266), a single locality in the Djurab Desert, northern Chad, central Africa. Here we present a preliminary analysis of the palaeontological and palaeoecological context of these finds. The rich fauna from TM 266 includes a significant aquatic component such as fish, crocodiles and amphibious mammals, alongside animals associated with gallery forest and savannah, such as primates, rodents, elephants, equids and bovids. The fauna suggests a biochronological age between 6 and 7 million years. Taken together with the sedimentological evidence, the fauna suggests that S. tchadensis lived close to a lake, but not far from a sandy desert, perhaps the oldest record of desert conditions in the Neogene of northern central Africa.

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Authors: Vignaud, P., Duringer, P., Mackaye, H. T., Likius, A., Blondel, C., Boisserie, J.-R., de Bonis, L., Eisenmann, V., Etienne, M.-E., Geraads, D., Guy, F., Lehmann, T., Lihoreau, F., Lopez-Martinez, N., Mourer-Chauviré, C., Otero, O., Rage, J.-C., Schuster, M., Viriot, L., Zazzo, A., & Brunet, M.
Affiliations: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
University of N'Djamena (TD)
Corresponding author: Vignaud, Patrick
ORCID: Vignaud, Patrick
Duringer, Philippe
Blondel, Cécile
Boisserie, Jean-Renaud
Eisenmann, Véra
Geraads, Denis
Guy, Franck
Lehmann, Thomas
Lihoreau, Fabrice
Otero, Olga
Rage, Jean-Claude
Schuster, Mathieu
Viriot, Laurent
Zazzo, Antoine
Brunet, Michel
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2002-07
Volume: 418
Issue: 6894
Pages: 152-155
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature00880
OpenAlex: W2123184072
Cited by: 501
References: 30
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 79 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 24 · 2013: 23 · 2012: 19
FWCI: 98.80
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
HAL (submittedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders: Ministère de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
Topics: Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
Keywords: Sahelanthropus tchadensis, early hominins, Miocene, paleoecology, fossil fauna, biochronology, lake environment, desert environment, Neogene, Chad
MeSH terms: Animals, Chad, Fossils, Fresh Water, Geography, Humans, Time Factors, Hominidae, Ecosystem, Geologic Sediments

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