Taphonomic, Avian, and Small-Vertebrate Indicators of Ardipithecus ramidus Habitat

摘要

The stratigraphic unit containing Ardipithecus ramidus was probably deposited rapidly, thus providing a transect through a 4.4-million-year-old landscape. To help reconstruct and understand its biological setting as thoroughly as possible, we recovered an assemblage of ＞ 150,000 plant and animal fossils. More than 6000 vertebrate specimens were identified at the family level or below.