Australopithecus bahrelghazali is a fossil hominin that was first discovered in 1993 by Michel Brunet at Bahr el Ghazal, Chad. The findings were located roughly 2,500 kilometers West from the East African 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 discovered in 1995 has similar features to the dentation of Australopithecus afarensis. This species is a mystery to some as it is the only australopithecine fossil found in Central Africa. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascidiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Orders Subclass Multituberculata (extinct) Plagiaulacida Cimolodonta Subclass Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Subclass Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Placentalia Afrosoricida Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata (extinct) Perissodactyla Pholidota Plesiadapiformes (extinct) Primates Proboscidea Rodentia Scandentia Sirenia Taeniodonta... Families 13, See classification A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all lemurs, monkeys, apes, and humans. ... Genera Subfamily Ponginae Pongo - Orangutans Gigantopithecus (extinct) Sivapithecus (extinct) Lufengpithecus (extinct) Ankarapithecus (extinct) Subfamily Homininae Gorilla - Gorillas Pan - Chimpanzees Homo - Humans Dryopithecus (extinct) Ouranopithecus (extinct) Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Orrorin (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Pierolapithecus (extinct) (tentative) The hominids are the members of the biological family Hominidae... Genera Gorilla Pan (chimpanzees) Homo (humans) Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Homininae is a subfamily of Hominidae, including Homo sapiens and some extinct relatives, as well as the gorillas and the chimpanzees. ... Species A. afarensis (Lucy) Formerly Australopithecus, now Paranthropus Australopithecines (genus Australopithecus) are a group of extinct Hominids that are closely related to humans. ... Hopefully this misnomer will someday be corrected throughout biology and other texts to binomenal nomenclature , as binomi- refers to two numbers, while binomen- refers to two names. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Human evolution is the process of change and development, or evolution, by which human beings emerged as a distinct species. ... Species Ardipithecus kadabba Ardipithecus ramidus Ardipithecus is a very early hominid genus (subfamily Homininae). ... Binomial name Sahelanthropus tchadensis Sahelanthropus tchadensis is an early fossil hominid, approximately 7 million years old from the Miocene. ... Binomial name Orrorin tugenensis Senut et al. ... Species A. afarensis (Lucy) Formerly Australopithecus, now Paranthropus Australopithecines (genus Australopithecus) are a group of extinct Hominids that are closely related to humans. ... Binomial name Australopithecus afarensis Johanson & White, 1978 Lucy is a 3. ... Binomial name Australopithecus africanus Dart, 1925 Australopithecus africanus was an early hominid, an australopithecine, who lived between 2 and 3 million years ago in the Pliocene. ... Australopithecus anamensis is a species of australopithecine discovered in 1994 by Maeve Leakey in North Kenya. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Species Paranthropus aethiopicus Paranthropus boisei Paranthropus robustus Paranthropus is an extinct genus of bipedal hominid that is probably descended from the Australopithecine hominids (Australopithecus). ... Binomial name Paranthropus boisei (Mary Leakey, 1959) Paranthropus boisei had a skull highly specialized for heavy chewing. ... Binomial name Paranthropus robustus Broom, 1938 Paranthropus robustus was originally discovered in Southern Africa in 1938. ... Binomial name Paranthropus aethiopicus (Olson, 1985) Paranthropus aethiopicus was a bipedal hominid of the genus Paranthropus that lived between 2. ... Species Homo sapiens See text for extinct species. ... Binomial name Homo habilis Leakey et al. ... Binomial name Homo erectus Dubois, 1894 Subspecies Homo erectus palaeojavanicus Homo erectus soloensis Homo erectus (upright man) is a hominin species that is believed to be an ancestor of modern humans (with Homo heidelbergensis usually treated as an intermediary step). ... Binomial name Homo ergaster Groves & Mazak, 1975 Homo ergaster (working man) is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which arose in Africa some 1. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Homo heidelbergensis. ... Binomial name Homo heidelbergensis Schoetensack, 1908 Homo heidelbergensis (nicknamed Goliath) is an extinct species of the genus Homo and the common ancestor of both Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis) and Cro-Magnon man (Homo sapiens). ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens idaltu White et al, 2003 Homo sapiens idaltu is an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens that lived over 160,000 years ago in Africa. ... Homo cepranensis (extinct): 900,000, found in Italy; a proposed species known from only one cranial bone. ... Rhodesian Man (Homo rhodesiensis) is a cranium fossil that was found in an iron and zinc mine in Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) in 1921 by Tom Zwiglaar, a Swiss miner. ... Binomial name Homo rudolfensis Alexeev, 1986 The species Homo rudolfensis was originally proposed in 1986 by V. P. Alexeev for the specimen KNM ER 1470. ... Binomial name Homo georgicus Homo georgicus is a species that was suggested to 2002 to describe fossil hominid skulls and jaws found in Dmanisi, Georgia in 1999 and 2001, which seem intermediate between Homo habilis and H. erectus. ... Binomial name Homo floresiensis P. Brown , 2004 Homo floresiensis (Man of Flores) is a species in the genus Homo, remarkable for its small body, small brain, and survival until relatively recent times. ... Binomial name Homo neanderthalensis King, 1864 The Neanderthal or Neandertal was a species of Homo (Homo neanderthalensis) that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from about 230,000 to 29,000 years ago, during the Middle and Lower Paleolithic period of the Pleistocene epoch. ... Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens For other uses, see Human (disambiguation). ... A fossil Ammonite Fossils are the mineralized remains of animals or plants or other traces such as footprints. ... Genera Gorilla Pan (chimpanzees) Homo (humans) Paranthropus (extinct) Australopithecus (extinct) Sahelanthropus (extinct) Ardipithecus (extinct) Kenyanthropus (extinct) Homininae is a subfamily of Hominidae, including Homo sapiens and some extinct relatives, as well as the gorillas and the chimpanzees. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Bahr el Ghazal is both a river and a region of southwestern Sudan, the region taking its name from the river. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Eastern Africa ... In geology, a rift valley is a valley created by the formation of a rift. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Binomial name Australopithecus afarensis Johanson & White, 1978 Lucy is a 3. ... Species A. afarensis (Lucy) A. africanus A. anamensis A. garhi Formerly Australopithecus, now Paranthropus Australopithecines (members of the genus Australopithecus) are a group of extinct hominids that are closely related to humans. ...

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• http://www.msu.edu/~heslipst/contents/ANP440/bahrelghazali.htm
• http://www.columbia.edu/itc/anthropology/v1007/2002projects/web/australopithecus/austro.html