The contexts of discovery of Australopithecus bahrelghazali (Abel) and of Sahelanthropus tchadensis (Toumaï) : unearthed, embedded in sandstone, or surface collected?
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: THE STRATIGRAPHIC CONTEXTS OF TWO important fossil hominid specimens from Chad have been repeatedly reported as being precisely known on the basis of their supposed in situ discovery. It is here demonstrated that neither of the fossils, the holotypes of Australopithecus bahrelghazali and Sahelanthropus tchadensis, was in situ at the time of discovery.
Source: South African Journal of Science
Author: Alain Beauvilain
Institution: Université Paris Nanterre
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1528707211