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Early Pleistocene large mammals from Maka’amitalu, Hadar, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia

John Rowan
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The Early Pleistocene was a critical time period in the evolution of eastern African mammal faunas, but fossil assemblages sampling this interval are poorly known from Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Field work by the Hadar Research Project in the Busidima Formation exposures (~2.7-0.8 Ma) of Hadar in the lower Awash Valley, resulted in the recovery of an early Homo maxilla (A.L. 666-1) with associated stone tools and fauna from the Maka'amitalu basin in the 1990s. These assemblages are dated to ~2.35 Ma by the Bouroukie Tuff 3 (BKT-3). Continued work by the Hadar Research Project over the last two decades has greatly expanded the faunal collection. Here, we provide a comprehensive account of the Maka'amitalu large mammals (Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Primates, and Proboscidea) and discuss their paleoecological and biochronological significance. The size of the Maka'amitalu How to cite this article
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John Rowan, Ignacio Lazagabaster, Christopher Campisano, Faysal Bibi, René Bobe, et al.. Early Pleistocene large mammals from Maka’amitalu, Hadar, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia. PeerJ, 2022, 10, pp.e13210. ⟨10.7717/peerj.13210⟩. ⟨hal-03659590⟩
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