Upsetting Evolutionary Timeline: 9.7 Million Year Old Teeth Found in Germany May Belong to Human Relative
Credit: Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz
The sediment in which the teeth were found and the accompanying animal fossils point to an age shortly before the Mid-Vallesian crisis at approximately 9.7 Ma (million years ago) . While the molar shares features are with other animals , the canine reveals intriguingly potential hominin affinities: its lingual outline is clearly diamond-shaped; its ratio of lingual height /mesiodistal length is within the range of Australopithecus afarensis , Ardipithecus ramidus, Ardipithecus kadabba, and females of Pan troglodytes .
Herbert Lutz, director of Natural History Museum Mainz, who led the excavation says on Researchgate,” It’s possible that, with the morphology of this canine tooth being so similar to more recent examples from Africa, the species could be related. That would mean that a group of primates was in Europe before they were in Africa.”
From all information gathered up to now, the question arises, if the newly discovered Eppelsheim species may be related to members of the African hominin tribe. The relative size of the canine is similar to Dryopithecus sp., Ankarapithecus meteai but also Ardipithecus ramidus.
The fossil beds at Eppelsheim is one of the most traditional fossil sites in the world and its importance has been recognized since the late-18th century. Incredible discoveries excavated during the late-18th century and into the 19th century gave this region and esteemed reputation. The world’s first partial fossil ape skeleton was discovered at Eppelsheim, along with other mammalian species, including various Artiodactyla, mastodons, three-toed Urpferdes Hippotherium (singular Hipparion) primigenium.
Credit: Ghedoghedo/Wikimedia Commons
Since 1931 six more hominoid teeth and a few fragments had been unearthed on the Wissberg near GauWeinheim, ca. 18 km NW of Eppelsheim, in the course of commercial sand quarrying and during scientific excavations in the years 1934 -1935. These were directed by Otto Schmidtgen, former director of the Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz (Schmidtgen 1935). Unfortunately, these teeth are lost since 1945.
Contacts and sources:
Herbert Lutz
Natural History Museum Mainz
Citation: A new great ape with startling resemblances to African members of the hominin tribe, excavated from the Mid-Vallesian Dinotheriensande of Eppelsheim. First report (Hominoidea, Miocene, MN 9, Proto-Rhine River, Germany) Herbert Lutz Thomas Engel, Bastian Lischewsky, Axel Von Berg
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/10/upsetting-evolutionary-timeline-97.html
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