C. abyssinicus Teeth Compared to Modern Female Gorilla Jaw
Following yesterday’s introduction to Suwa et al.‘s new Miocene ape, here is a high(er) resolution photo of three of the 10 million year old teeth compared to a modern female gorilla’s teeth.
In this view, you see lower dentition of C. abyssinicus, speficially the canine, the first molar, M1, and M3, or the last molar. I’m still waiting to get my hands on the Nature paper, but in this view I think you guys can all see how similar these three teeth are to that of a gorillas, in size and morphology.
[...] fall right in the largest and smallest range of modern gorilla size variation. On my other blog, Anthropology.net, I posted a fairly high resolution photograph with three of the teeth compared up to a [...]
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