Anatomy and age of the Lothagam mandible

New anatomical data strengthen the allocation of the Lothagam mandible to the family Hominidae, most similar among known hominids to Australopithecus afarensis. New biostratigraphic analyses of Lothagam Suidae, coupled with data from the Tugen Hills succession, suggest that the Lothagam hominid is older than 5·6 Ma, and is therefore the earliest known member of this taxon.

• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Journal of Human Evolution

• Publication date

  1992-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/0047-2484(92)90079-O
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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