Australopithecus bahrelghazali
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| Australopithecus bahrelghazali | |
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| Conservation status | |
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Fossil
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Homininae |
| Genus: | Australopithecus |
| Species: | A. bahrelghazali |
| Binomial name | |
| †Australopithecus bahrelghazali Brunet et al., 1995 |
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Australopithecus bahrelghazali is a fossil hominin (a human, or a human ancestor) that was discovered in 1993 by the paleontologist Michel Brunet. Brunet found the fossil in the Bahr el Ghazal valley near Koro Toro, in Chad, in Africa and named it Abel. Abel was dated using Berylium based Radiometric dating as living about 3.6 million years ago.
