- Abel (hominid)
Abel is the name given to the first and only specimen ever discovered of "
Australopithecus bahrelghazali ". Abel was found in January1995 inChad in theKanem Region by thepaleontologist Michel Brunet, who named the fossil "Abel" in memory of his close friend Abel Brillanceau, who had died ofmalaria in1989 .Of Abel remains only part of a jaw, which explains the little information descernable concerning its way of life.
The few teeth confirm it to be of the
Australopithecus genus : it has a secondpremolar with a broad and molarized crown, not dissimilar to the Lucy fossil, and as such to the "Australopithecus afarensis ".See also
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List of fossil sites "(with link directory)"
*List of hominina (hominid) fossils "(with images)"
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