New material of the earliest hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7034, 2005, Pages 752-755

  Brunet, Michel ^a   Guy, Franck ^a,b   Pilbeam, David ^b   Lieberman, Daniel E ^b   Likius, Andossa ^c   Mackaye, Hassane T ^c   Ponce De León, Marcia S ^d   Zollikofer, Christoph P E ^d   Vignaud, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE N'DJAMENA   (Chad)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENAMELS; MORPHOLOGY;

BIOCHRONOLOGY; HOMINID; TOROS-MENALLA FOSSILIFEROUS AREA; UPPER MIOCENE;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

HOMINID; MIOCENE;

ARTICLE; CANINE TOOTH; CHAD; CHIMPANZEE; FOSSIL; HOMINID; MANDIBLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAHELANTHROPUS TCHADENSIS; SKULL; UPPER MIOCENE; ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; PHYLOGENY; TOOTH;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHAD; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

ANIMALS; CHAD; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; MANDIBLE; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; TOOTH;

EID: 17144362851     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03392     Document Type: Article

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