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Late Miocene hominoid from Niger

Martin PICKFORD, Yves COPPENS, Brigitte SENUT, Jorge MORALES & José BRAGA

en Comptes Rendus Palevol 8 (4) - Pages 413-425

Published on 30 June 2009

African Late Miocene hominoids are rare, having been reported from six localities in Kenya, Ethiopia and Chad ranging in age from 10.5 to 5.5 Ma. We here report the occurrence of a hominoid in Niger associated with a vertebrate fauna which indicates an age of between 11–5 Ma. The Niger fossil locality is 940 km north of the nearest known extant hominoids, 1000 km west of the nearest recorded fossil hominoid from Chad.


Keywords:

Niger, Africa, Late Miocene, Hominoid, Mandible, Fauna

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