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

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6894, 2002, Pages 152-155

  Vignaud, Patrick ^a   Duringer, Philippe ^b   Mackaye, Hassane Taïsso ^c   Likius, Andossa ^a,c   Blondel, Cécile ^a   Boisserie, Jean Renaud ^a   De Bonis, Louis ^a   Eisenmann, Véra ^d   Etienne, Marie Esther ^a   Geraads, Denis ^e   Guy, Franck ^a,f   Lehmann, Thomas ^a   Lihoreau, Fabrice ^a   Lopez Martinez, Nieves ^g   Mourer Chauviré, Cécile ^h   Otero, Olga ^a   Rage, Jean Claude ^d   Schuster, Mathieu ^b   Viriot, Laurent ^a   Zazzo, Antoine ⁱ   Brunet, Michel ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE N'DJAMENA   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

ⁱ SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

BIOCHRONOLOGICAL AGE; HOMINID;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BIOCHRONOLOGY; FAUNA; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY;

AFRICA; AGE; ALLIGATOR; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BOVIDS; CHAD; DESERT; ELEPHANT; FAUNA; FISH; FOREST; GEOLOGY; HORSE; LAKE; MAMMAL; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RODENT; SAVANNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHAD; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

CHAD;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037062933     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00880     Document Type: Review

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