Fossil cercopithecidae from the Middle Pleistocene Dawaitoli formation, Middle Awash valley, Afar region, Ethiopia

Fossil elephantoids from the hominid-bea

Fossil elephantoids from the hominid-bearing awash group, middle awash valley, afar depression, Ethiopia. Jon E. Kalb and Assefa Mebrate, 1993, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 83, Part 1, 114 pp., $15.00 (paperbound)

✍ Christopher J. O'Brien 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 150 KB

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