Plio-Pleistocene decline of African megaherbivores: No evidence for ancient hominin impacts

JT Faith, J Rowan, A Du, PL Koch - Science, 2018 - science.org
It has long been proposed that pre-modern hominin impacts drove extinctions and shaped
the evolutionary history of Africa's exceptionally diverse large mammal communities, but this …

Functional traits of the world's late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores

EJ Lundgren, SD Schowanek, J Rowan, O Middleton… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
Prehistoric and recent extinctions of large-bodied terrestrial herbivores had significant and
lasting impacts on Earth's ecosystems due to the loss of their distinct trait combinations. The …

A 4.3-million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis mandible from Ileret, East Turkana, Kenya, and its paleoenvironmental context

JE Lewis, CV Ward, WH Kimbel, CL Kidney… - Journal of Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract A hominin mandible, KNM-ER 63000, and associated vertebrate remains were
recovered in 2011 from Area 40 in East Turkana, Kenya. Tephrostratigraphic and …

Three-dimensional dental topography of fossil suids and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of earliest Vallesian (Late Miocene) sites from the Vallès-Penedès Basin …

S McKenzie, G Thiery, DM Alba, D DeMiguel - Palaeogeography …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The earliest Vallesian (∼ 11.2 Ma) sites of Castell de Barberà (CB) and Creu de
Conill 20 (CCN20), in the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula), are similarly well …

Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates: A case study examining the Australopithecus anamensis–afarensis lineage

A Du, J Rowan, SC Wang, BA Wood… - Journal of human …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reliable estimates of when hominin taxa originated and went extinct are central to
addressing many paleoanthropological questions, including those relating to …

[HTML][HTML] Early Pleistocene large mammals from Maka'amitalu, Hadar, lower Awash valley, Ethiopia

J Rowan, IA Lazagabaster, CJ Campisano, F Bibi… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Early Pleistocene large mammals from Maka’amitalu, Hadar, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia [PeerJ]
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Why the long teeth? Morphometric analysis suggests different selective pressures on functional occlusal traits in Plio-Pleistocene African suids

D Yang, A Pisano, J Kolasa, T Jashashvili, J Kibii… - Paleobiology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Neogene and Pleistocene African suids displayed convergent evolutionary trends in the
third molar (M3) morphology, with increasingly elongated and higher crowns through time …

Dental microwear texture analysis of Pliocene Suidae from Hadar and Kanapoi in the context of early hominin dietary breadth expansion

IA Lazagabaster - Journal of human evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
Stable carbon isotope studies suggest that early hominins may have diversified their diet as
early as 3.76 Ma. Early Pliocene hominins, including Australopithecus anamensis, had diets …

The case of the grass‐eating suids in the Plio‐Pleistocene Turkana Basin: 3D dental topography in relation to diet in extant and fossil pigs

J Rannikko, H Adhikari, A Karme, I Žliobaitė… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Two separate subfamilies of Plio‐Pleistocene African pigs (suids) consecutively evolved
hypsodont and horizodont molars with flat occlusal surfaces, commonly interpreted as an …

Plio‐Pleistocene mammals from Mille‐Logya, Ethiopia, and the post‐Hadar faunal change

D Geraads, D Reed, WA Barr, R Bobe… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the non‐primate mammalian fauna from the late Pliocene to earliest
Pleistocene deposits of Mille‐Logya in the Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia, dated to c. 2.9–2.4 …