Australopithecus bahrelghazali

Australopithecus bahrelghazali is an extinct australopith known from fossils found in Chad and dated to about 3.5 million years ago. Its discovery extended the known range of australopiths into central Africa.

KT 12/H1: A fossil jaw from Chad, assigned to Australopithecus bahrelghazali and dated to about 3.5 million years ago. This holotype mandibular fragment anchors the species name.
Michel Brunet: A French paleontologist who led fieldwork in Chad that uncovered important Pliocene hominin fossils. Brunet led the team that discovered and named the species.
Australopithecus: An extinct genus of African hominins that includes several species from the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. Bahrelghazali is classified within this genus.
Hominin phylogeny: The evolutionary relationships among species in the human lineage. The sparse fossils leave bahrelghazali's position among australopiths uncertain.
Abel (fossil site): A fossil locality in the Koro Toro region of Chad where Australopithecus bahrelghazali remains were found. Its deposits produced the species' type specimen.
Djurab Desert: A desert region in northern Chad that preserves fossil deposits from the Pliocene and other periods. It situates the Koro Toro discoveries in their broader landscape.
Hominin: A member of the evolutionary lineage that includes humans after its split from the lineage of chimpanzees. Australopiths belong to the hominin lineage.
Paleobiogeography: The study of how organisms' geographic distributions changed through geological time. Its Chadian occurrence bears on how widely australopiths ranged across Africa.
Koro Toro: A fossil-bearing area in the Djurab Desert of northern Chad, known for Pliocene vertebrate discoveries. The species' remains came from this wider fossil region.
Pliocene: A geological epoch lasting from about 5.33 to 2.58 million years ago. The species lived during this epoch's changing African environments.

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Australopithecus deyiremedaCompared with: Both named species rest on limited fossils beyond the main East African record.