[email protected] wrote:
Op donderdag 26 januari 2023 om 08:41:29 UTC+1 schreef JTEM is so reasonable:
Now I'm on record stating that I'm the very last person
to pee myself over a tooth but, for the benefit of those
who cling to these things like a drowning man to a life
preserver...
So National Geographic absolutely ROTS as a cite but
here's this:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ancient-teeth-found-germany-dont-rewrite-human-history-science
In the highly likely event you can't even read that one, here's
another URL:
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-teeth-rewrite-human-history-9-7-million-year-old-mystery
The claim is that the tooth -- teeth, it seems -- compare to
Ardipithecus or Australopithecus, only they're *Way* older
than anything found in Africa... almost 10 million years old.
Speaking of old, this is a 2017 story. Obviously it's not something
that resonated.
But I'm raising it, because although it's too old for any of us
other than the good Doctor, it's interesting.
A new great ape with startling resemblances to African members of the hominin tribe, excavated from the Mid-Vallesian Dinotheriensande of Eppelsheim. First report (Hominoidea, Miocene, MN 9, Proto-Rhine River,
The link and the REAL abstract
https://carta.anthropogeny.org/libraries/bibliography/new-great-ape-startling-resemblances-african-members-hominin-tribe-excavated
A new great ape with startling resemblances to African members
of the hominin tribe, excavated from the Mid-Vallesian
Dinotheriensande of Eppelsheim. First report (Hominoidea,
Miocene, MN 9, Proto-Rhine River, Germany)
Abstract
In September 2016, two teeth of an up to now undescribed
member of the Hominoidea have been uncovered from
sediments of the Proto-Rhine River near Eppelsheim,
Germany, the type locality for the Eppelsheim Formation
(i. e. Dinotheriensande) and of 25 mammals of various
systematic positions. Together with other finds from
Eppelsheim and the Wissberg location, which is only 18 km
away, these are the northernmost occurrences of Miocene
primates in Europe. Both teeth, the crowns of an upper
left canine and an upper right first molar, are
exceptionally well preserved and obviously come from the
same body of unknown sex. Their sedimentological
environment and the accompanying faunal elements point to
an age shortly before the Mid-Vallesian crisis at ca.
9.7 Ma. While the molar shares characters with various
other taxa, the canine reveals intriguingly potential
hominin affinities: its lingual outline is clearly
diamond-shaped; its ratio of lingual height / mesiodistal
length is within the range of Australopithecus afarensis,
Ardipithecus ramidus, Ardipithecus kadabba, and females
of Pan troglodytes. The relative size of the canine,
i. e. the ratio of the buccal heights of C and M1, is
similar to those of e.g. Dryopithecus sp., Ankarapithecus
meteai but also Ardipithecus ramidus. Both, reduced size
and shape of the canine likely indicate that the new
species from Eppelsheim had lost a honing (C/p3) complex
already ca. 9.7 Ma ago. From all information gathered up
to now, the question arises, if the newly discovered
Eppelsheim species may be related to members of the
African hominin tribe.
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