Fossil elephantoids, Awash paleolake basins, and the Afar triple junction, Ethiopia

Kalb, Jon E.

doi:10.1016/0031-0182(94)00088-p

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“…A similar pattern is seen in the proboscidean genus Stegodon, which became extinct in Africa during the mid-Pliocene (Kalb, 1995), but dispersed into Asia in the Pliocene where it is found in the Tatrot formation of the Siwaliks (Nanda, 2008) and persisted until the late Pleistocene (Van den Bergh et al, 2008). In the Pleistocene it is found in the Siwaliks, peninsular India, China and Indonesia (Nanda, 2008;Chauhan, 2008;Tong, 2006;van den Bergh et al, 2001), but also reappears in SW Asia in the late early Pleistocene, having been found at Gesher Benot Ya'acov , Evron Quarry and Latamne (see O'Regan et al, 2005 and references therein), but does not return to Africa or enter Europe at this time.…”

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confidence: 65%

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

O’Regan

Turner

Bishop

et al. 2011

Quaternary Science Reviews

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Discoveries of fossil Homo outside Africa predating 1.0 Ma have generated much discussion about hominin dispersal routes. However, tool-using bipeds were only one element of the inter-continental mammalian dispersals that occurred during the climatic changes of the Pliocene and Pleistocene. This paper will place hominin movements in the context of those of the wider mammalian fauna, which includes carnivores, bovids and non-human primates. The distribution of these different taxa suggests that species moved individually when the environmental conditions were right for them, rather than in multi-species waves of dispersal, and allows evaluation of the contextual evidence for the newly emerging 'Out of Asia' paradigm as well as the established 'Out of Africa' model.

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confidence: 65%

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

O’Regan

Turner

Bishop

et al. 2011

Quaternary Science Reviews

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“…Several animals are only found in the Levant, including the cervids of the genera Dama, Capreolus, Cervus and Praemegaceros, the bison (Bison priscus) and the extinct proboscidean Stegodon. This is an interesting distribution for the genus Stegodon, since although it persisted in Asia until relatively recently it became extinct in Africa in the Pliocene (Kalb 1995 There are in fact three late records of Hipparion in Alemseged & Geraads (2000) has reported a partial cranium from Eritrea which appears to be Bos; indeed they tentatively identified it as Bos cf. primigenius, commonly known as the aurochs.…”

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Large mammal turnover in Africa and the Levant between 1.0 and 0.5 Ma

O’Regan

Bishop

Lamb

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Faunal change at the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary in Europe has long been a topic for discussion. However, analyses of large mammal turnover at this time in Africa have been lacking, largely because of the low number of sites dated to this interval. Recent work, particularly in the last 10 years, has resulted in a much larger published sample of sites and we synthesize these data in this paper. In our multivariate (TWINSPAN) analyses of African and Levantine large mammal faunas we found that localities were subdivided by geographic regions, not by age. There were some small-scale changes with the appearance or extinction of particular taxa, but there was no large-scale turnover such as that seen in Europe. The Levant was included as a possible route for faunal interchange with east Africa, but no similarities were found between these areas. It therefore appears that the modern zoogeographic separation of the Levant and north Africa into the Palaearctic region and sub-Saharan Africa into the African region can be traced back to at least the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary.

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“…kenyensis. This taxon occurs in the Adu-Asa Formation (WoldeGabriel et al, 2001;Haile-Selassie et al, 2004), the Kuseralee Member of the lower Sagantole Formation (Kalb and Mebrate, 1993;Kalb, et al 1995;Renne et al, 1999), and in the Mursi Formation (Beden, 1976) at an age of >4 to < 4.15 Ma (Brown and Nash, 1976;Brown et al, 1985;Feibel et al, 1989). …”

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“…occurs at Mwimbi. L. adaurora is known from the Mursi Formation (Beden, 1987) and Hadar Formation (Kalb et al, 1982;Kalb, 1995). Mammuthus subplanifrons is identified at Uraha.…”

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Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, Northern Malawi

Sandrock

Kullmer²,

Schrenk

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Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence

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The vertebrate fauna of the Chiwondo Beds in Northern Malawi is heavily biased towards the preservation of large terrestrial mammals, the majority being ungulates. The faunal diversity resembles an African shortgrass plains assemblage. The taxonomic diversity is nevertheless low, emphasizing an incomplete fossil record. Based on modern bovid representation in African game parks, statistical tests show that the Chiwondo bovid assemblage consists of a mixture of species found in the Somali-Masai and the Zambezian ecozones. The composition of the terrestrial fauna is similar to Swartkrans 1 and the Upper Ndolanya Beds. The fossil assemblages can be assigned to three biostratigraphic time intervals that date from older than 4.0 Ma to less

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Fossil elephantoids, Awash paleolake basins, and the Afar triple junction, Ethiopia

Cited by 53 publications

References 32 publications

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

Hominins without fellow travellers? First appearances and inferred dispersals of Afro-Eurasian large-mammals in the Plio-Pleistocene

Large mammal turnover in Africa and the Levant between 1.0 and 0.5 Ma

Fauna, taphonomy, and ecology of the Plio-Pleistocene Chiwondo Beds, Northern Malawi

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