Palaeoecological reconstruction of Plio-Pleistocene herbivores from the Ahl al Oughlam site (Casablanca, Morocco): Insights from dental wear and stable isotopes

I Ramírez-Pedraza, F Rivals, C Tornero… - Quaternary Science …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In this article, we use a multiproxy approach based on stable isotope analyses (δ 18 O and δ
13 C), mesowear, and microwear dental analysis to reconstruct the climate, diet, and habitat …

Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts

JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du, PL Koch - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped
the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this …

StW 573 Australopithecus prometheus: its significance for an australopith bauplan

RH Crompton, J McClymont, S Elton, S Thorpe… - Folia …, 2022‏ - karger.com
Abstract The StW 573 skeleton of Australopithecus prometheus from Sterkfontein Member 2
is some 93% complete and thus by far the most complete member of that genus yet found …

[کتاب][B] Evolution and fossil record of African Proboscidea

WJ Sanders - 2023‏ - books.google.com
This book details the long, diverse, and complex phylogenetic history of elephants and their
fossil relatives (the Proboscidea), whose origin is deeply embedded some 60 million years …

The ecology of Australopithecus anamensis in the early Pliocene of Kanapoi, Kenya

R Bobe, FK Manthi, CV Ward, JM Plavcan… - Journal of human …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Australopithecus anamensis is a pivotal species in human evolution. It is likely to be the
direct ancestor of Australopithecus afarensis and the species that may have given rise to the …

A 4.3-million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis mandible from Ileret, East Turkana, Kenya, and its paleoenvironmental context

JE Lewis, CV Ward, WH Kimbel, CL Kidney… - Journal of Human …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Abstract A hominin mandible, KNM-ER 63000, and associated vertebrate remains were
recovered in 2011 from Area 40 in East Turkana, Kenya. Tephrostratigraphic and …

Isotopic equifinality and rethinking the diet of Australopithecus anamensis

RL Quinn - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Australopithecus anamensis has comparable δ13Cenamel values to
Ardipithecus ramidus, and both have been characterized as C3 feeders in open woodland …

Revisiting the pedogenic carbonate isotopes and paleoenvironmental interpretation of Kanapoi

RL Quinn, CJ Lepre - Journal of human evolution, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Reconstructed habitats of Australopithecus anamensis at Kanapoi by Wynn (2000) yielded
evidence for both wooded and grassy environments. Wynn's study was based on stable …

Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin

A Villaseñor, KT Uno, RN Kinyanjui… - Journal of Human …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
During the middle Pliocene (∼ 3.8–3.2 Ma), both Australopithecus afarensis and
Kenyanthropus platyops are known from the Turkana Basin, but between 3.60 and 3.44 Ma …

Multiproxy approach to reconstruct fossil primate feeding behavior: Case study for macaque from the Plio-Pleistocene site Guefaït-4.2 (eastern Morocco)

I Ramírez-Pedraza, LM Martínez… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
The genus Macaca belongs to Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), Cercopithecinae,
Papionini. The presence of Macaca in North Africa is well known from the Late Miocene to …