New geological and palaeontological age constraint for the gorilla–human lineage split

Shigehiro Katoh,Yonas Beyene,Tetsumaru Itaya,Hironobu Hyodo,Masayuki Hyodo,Koshi Yagi,Chitaro Gouzu,Giday WoldeGabriel,William K. Hart,Stanley H. Ambrose,Hideo Nakaya,Raymond L. Bernor,Jean-Renaud Boisserie,Faysal Bibi,Haruo Saegusa,Tomohiko Sasaki,Katsuhiro Sano,Berhane Asfaw,Gen Suwa

New geological and palaeontological age constraint for the gorilla–human lineage split

2016

Shigehiro Katoh
Yonas Beyene
Tetsumaru Itaya
Hironobu Hyodo
Masayuki Hyodo
Koshi Yagi
Chitaro Gouzu
Giday WoldeGabriel
William K. Hart
Stanley H. Ambrose
Hideo Nakaya
Raymond L. Bernor
Jean-Renaud Boisserie
Faysal Bibi
Haruo Saegusa
Tomohiko Sasaki
Katsuhiro Sano
Berhane Asfaw
Gen Suwa

A substantial revision to the age of the Chorora Formation, Ethiopia, constraining the deposits to around 8 million years old and forming a revised age constraint for the human–gorilla lineage split.

Keywords:

Paleontology
Gorilla
Zoology
Biological anthropology
Biology
Clade
Fossil Record
Rift
Nakalipithecus
Chororapithecus

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