Fossil elephantoids from the hominid-bea
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Christopher J. O'Brien
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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However, deposits of the Middle Awash additionally serve as a chronicle of nonhuman mammal evolution, exemplified by an extraordinarily complete stratigraphic sequence of elephantoids. The evolutionary relationships of these fossil elephants (gomphotheres, stegomorphs, and the more familiar elephant