Australopithecus anamensis is a hominin that lived roughly 4.3 to 3.8 million years ago and is the oldest known species of Australopithecus. Nearly 100 fossil specimens from Kenya and Ethiopia represent more than 20 individuals, with the first finds made at Kanapoi and Allia Bay in northern Kenya. It is the earliest hominin known from the Turkana Basin. Australopithecus afarensis is normally thought to have emerged within this lineage, yet the two species overlapped for a time, and some researchers treat them as a single grouping. The only upper cranial fossil points to a smaller cranial capacity, estimated at 365 to 370 cubic centimetres, than in Australopithecus afarensis.
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are known from Kenya and Ethiopia
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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are known from Kenya and Ethiopia
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1. Paleobiology Database: Paleobiology Database taxa of Hominidae, species list
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2. Australopithecus anamensis (Wikipedia)
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is a hominin species that lived roughly between 4.3 and 3.8 million years ago, and is the oldest known Australopithecus species
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are known from Kenya and Ethiopia
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their environment is believed to have been more closed woodland canopies surrounding Lake Turkana
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is a hominin species that lived roughly between 4.3 and 3.8 million years ago, and is the oldest known Australopithecus species
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In addition to the extant species and subspecies, archaeologists, paleontologists, and anthropologists have discovered and classified numerous extinct great ape species as below, based on the taxonomy shown.
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