Australopithecus bahrelghazali Totally Explained

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Australopithecus bahrelghazali is a fossil hominin that was first discovered in 1993 ¹by the paleontologist Michel Brunet in the Bahr el Ghazal valley near Koro Toro, in Chad, that Brunet named Abel. The find consists of a mandibular fragment, a lower second incisor, both lower canines, and all four of its premolars, still affixed within the dental alveoli. The specimen's proper name is KT-12/H1; "Abel" is the informal name, a dedication to Brunet's deceased colleague Abel (hominid) Brillanceau. The specimen located roughly 2,500 kilometers West from the East African Great Rift Valley and were only a few teeth and a partial jaw found in deposits thought to be 3.0 to 3.5 million years old.
The mandible KT-12/H1 discovered has similar features to the dentition of Australopithecus afarensis; this has brought researchears like William Kimbel to argue that Abel isn't an exemplar of a separate species, but "falls within the range of variation" of the Australopithecus afarensis. By 1996, Brunet and his team classified KT 12/H1 as the holotype specimen for Australopithecus bahrelghazali ². This claim is difficult to substantiate,as the describers have kept KT 12/H1 locked away from the general paleoanthropological community, contrary to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature 1999³. This species is a mystery to some as it's the only australopithecine fossil found in Central Africa. It is also of great importance as it was the first fossil to show that geographically there's a "a third window" of early hominid evolution.

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