Additional fossils of Parapapio sp. From Waypoint 160 [Bolt's Farm, South Africa], dated between 4 and 4.5 millions years ago

Dominique Gommery (1) , Francis J. Thackeray (2) , Frank Sénégas (1) , Stephany Potze , L. Kgasi

1 DEHIPE - Dynamique de l'évolution humaine : individus, populations, espèces [Paris]
2 Dept. of Paleontology, Transvaal Museum

Postcranial bones of Parapapio are rare in South African Plio-Pleistocene cave assemblages, and data regarding the locomotion and behaviour of this extinct papionin are scarce. Fossils of Parapapio have been discovered at Waypoint 160 on Bolt's Farm, which is the oldest site in the Cradle of Humankind, with an age of between 4.5 to 4 million years ago. New material supplements information relating to the postcrania of Parapapio sp. from Bolt's Farm. It was a heavily built primate which was terrestrial or at least semi-terrestrial. The associated microfauna at Waypoint 160 suggests an open environment that was drier than that of today.

Domaines: Anthropologie biologique

Dominique Gommery, Francis J. Thackeray, Frank Sénégas, Stephany Potze, L. Kgasi. Additional fossils of Parapapio sp. From Waypoint 160 [Bolt's Farm, South Africa], dated between 4 and 4.5 millions years ago. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 2009, 46, pp.63-72. ⟨hal-00816022⟩