Miocene to Pliocene stratigraphy and paleoecology of Galili, Ethiopia

Ottmar Kullmer, Oliver Sandrock, Thomas Bence Viola, Wolfgang Hujer, Zelalem Bedaso, Doris Nagel, Andrea Stadlmayer, Fritz Popp, Robert Scholger, Gerhard Weber, Horst Seidler

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Abstract

The first paleontological surveys of the Mullu basin in the Somali Region (Figure 20.1A,B) were conducted by Yohannes Haile-Selassie and colleagues in 1997. They collected several isolated hominin teeth, preliminarily attributed to Australopithecus anamensis, and a few other large mammal remains in the Galili area in the southern Afar depression of Ethiopia (Haile-Selassie and Asfaw, 2000). Subsequently, between 2000 and 2009, the International Paleoanthropological Research Team consisting of Ethiopian, Austrian, American, Italian, and German anthropologists, paleontologists, and geologists recovered and catalogued more than 2000 vertebrate fossils from Galili sites (Figure 20.1C) during annual field seasons. Besides a number of fish, reptile, bird, and small mammal remains, a great variety of large mammal species, including primates, carnivores, proboscideans, perissodactyls, and artiodactyls have been found (Kullmer et al.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAfrican Paleoecology and Human Evolution
EditorsSally C. Reynolds, René Bobe
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Chapter20
Pages242-255
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9781139696470
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 106056 Biological anthropology
  • 105118 Palaeontology

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