Sites: Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia
Age: 2.7 to 2.3 mya Type specimen: BOU-VP-12/130 Specimens: BOU-VP-12/130 Cranial capacity: approximately 450 cm3 Cranial architecture:
Dentition: Very large premolars and molars, rectangular or slightly diverging dental arcade, diastema between the lateral incisor and the canine Postcranial: a femur (suspected to belong to A. garhi, although not yet assigned) – may indicate bipedalism Environment: Grassland, woodland Length and weight: Unknown Tools: None Ancestor: Unknown Descendants: Unknown General: Presents with a unique combination of primitive and derived traits. A. garhi possibly had longer arms than legs (as seen in A. afarensis), but also exhibits novel traits only otherwise seen in Paranthropus References: Asfaw, Berhane, et al. "Australopithecus garhi: a new species of early hominid from Ethiopia." Science 284.5414 (1999): 629-635. |