Further Remains of the Sterkfontein Ape-man, Plesianthropus

Broom, R.; Robinson, J. T.

doi:10.1038/160430b0

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“…The measurement of 9 mm by Broom et al 12 for the BL diameter of Sts 5 is larger than the BL diameter of 8 mm for a definite male specimen of A. africanus (Stw 505), and almost as large as the BL diameters for another male adult, TM 1511, estimated as 10.2 mm for the left canine 12 and 10.5 mm for the right canine 11 . Discovered in 1936, TM 1511 was not prepared in acetic acid.…”

Section: Canine Sockets and Alveolar Bone Lossmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…It is also not certain to what extent some degree of predepositional bone loss may have occurred after the canine teeth had broken, prior to the sockets being filled with sediment which became calcified. However, assuming that original measurements by Broom et al 12 were accurate, it is apparent that in 1950 the conical canine alveolar sockets were larger than they are currently. We suggest that this difference is a result of acid preparation sometime after 1950.…”

Section: Canine Sockets and Alveolar Bone Lossmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…After mechanical preparation of the cranium, using hammer and chisel, Broom et al 12 measured the buccolingual (BL) and mesiodistal (MD) canine socket diameters as 9.0 mm and 7.6 mm, respectively. Unfortunately, acetic acid was used at some stage of preparation, as is evident from acid damage to the petrosal bones within the cranium.…”

Section: Canine Sockets and Alveolar Bone Lossmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The cranium of Sts 5 ('Mrs Ples') in relation to sexual dimorphism of Australopithecus africanus

Tawane¹,

Thackeray²

2018

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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Section: Canine Sockets and Alveolar Bone Lossmentioning

confidence: 98%

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The cranium of Sts 5 ('Mrs Ples') in relation to sexual dimorphism of Australopithecus africanus

Tawane¹,

Thackeray²

2018

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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“…Il faudrait notamment dé-couvrir plus de restes scapulaires fossiles et étudier le seul processus coracoïde connu d'australopithèque (Sts 7), afin d'apporter des résultats complémentaires aux travaux précédents [2,17,26,29].…”

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Réflexion sur le processus coracoı̈de des hominoı̈des et des atèles ; application à quelques hominidés fossiles

Voisin¹

2001

Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth

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HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Réflexion sur le processus coracoïde des hominoïdes et des atèles ; application à quelques hominidés fossiles Jean-Luc VoisinTo cite this version: Abridged versionA lot of studies have been done about primates' scapulae [1,3,6,13,16,18,21,25,27]. However, apart from Martin and O'Brien's work [10], there are no studies about the coracoid process yet.This work is a study of the orientation and morphology of the coracoid process in hominoids, spider monkeys, colobus monkeys, two neandertal and Homo ergaster remains (table I). Among fossil hominids, there are only four remains that still possess a coracoid process. Five points are used (figure 1). Three of them (E, F, Q) define two perpendicular planes P and P , and the two others (U, R) define the great axis of the process. The projection of these five points in P and P planes allows to know the coracoid process orientation in comparison with the glenoid cavity (gleno-coracoid-p and gleno-coracoid-p * Correspondance et tirés à part.Adresse e-mail : jeanlucv@mnhn.fr (J.-L. Voisin).angles). The coracoid process morphology is described by three indexes. The coracoid indices illustrate the length of the coracoid process and the two others (maximum and minimum robustness index) its breadth. The gleno-coracoid-p and the gleno-coracoid-p angles show two groups. The first one, with the greatest value, contains only man. The second one includes all the other primates' studies here ( figures 2 and 3, table II). The coracoid index has the greatest value in gibbons and spider monkeys ( figure 4, table III), the most brachiating primates. The two coracoid robustness indices define also two groups, the spider monkey with the breadless coracoid process and the hominoids and the colobus monkey with a more robust coracoid process (figures 5 and 6, table III).When the coracoid process orientation put in relation to the glenoid cavity, there is a great difference between man and the other hominoids and spider monkeys. On 299 J.-L. Voisin / C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des planètes / Earth and Planetary Sciences 332 (2001) 299-306

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“…The KB specimens most closely resemble the extinct colobine Cercopithecoides kimeui, a species currently only established at eastern African localities (Jablonski and Frost, 2010;Anderson et al, 2014), but may represent a novel species (potentially Cercopithecoides coronatus Broom et al, 1950 from the KB 122 neurocranial vault; Freedman and Brain, 1972;Anderson et al, 2014). Until further analysis (and potentially formal separation) of the Kromdraai B sample, we defer attribution of the Drimolen Makondo specimens past the genus level.…”

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First description of in situ primate and faunal remains from the Plio-Pleistocene Drimolen Makondo palaeocave infill, Gauteng, South Africa

Rovinsky

Herries

Menter

et al. 2015

Palaeontologia Electronica

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Further Remains of the Sterkfontein Ape-man, Plesianthropus

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The cranium of Sts 5 ('Mrs Ples') in relation to sexual dimorphism of Australopithecus africanus

The cranium of Sts 5 ('Mrs Ples') in relation to sexual dimorphism of Australopithecus africanus

Réflexion sur le processus coracoı̈de des hominoı̈des et des atèles ; application à quelques hominidés fossiles

First description of in situ primate and faunal remains from the Plio-Pleistocene Drimolen Makondo palaeocave infill, Gauteng, South Africa

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