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A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of eastern Africa

Year: 1978

Type: article

Abstract: Hominid fossils have recently been recovered from Pliocene age deposits at Hadar, Ethiopia, and Laetolil, Tanzania.These fossils share an array of distinctive morphological characteristics which suggests that they belong to a single species of the genus Australopithecus, differing significantly from those previously described.The binomen Australopithecus afarensis sp.nov. is therefore assigned to this collection of early hominid remains.

Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15915545

Authors: Johanson, Donald C, White, T. D. (Timothy D.), Coppens, Yves

Language: English

Topic: Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

OpenAlex ID: W2606432221

FWCI: 63

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