保加利亚出土的人科牙齿：欧洲大陆最后的原始人类。

A hominid tooth from Bulgaria: the last pre-human hominid of continental Europe.

机构信息

National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 Blvd Tzar Osvoboditel, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria.

出版信息

J Hum Evol. 2012 Jan;62(1):138-45. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.10.008. Epub 2011 Dec 6.

DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.10.008

Abstract

A hominid upper premolar was discovered in the Azmaka quarry, near Chirpan (Bulgaria). The associated fauna, especially the co-occurrence of Choerolophodon and Anancus among the proboscideans, and Cremohipparion matthewi and Hippotherium brachypus among the hipparions, constrains the age of the locality to the second half of the middle Turolian (ca. 7 Ma), making it the latest pre-human hominid of continental Europe and Asia Minor. The available morphological and metric data are more similar to those of Ouranopithecus from the Vallesian of Greece than to those of the early to middle Turolian hominids of Turkey and Georgia, but the time gap speaks against a direct phyletic link, and Turolian migration from the east cannot be rejected.

摘要

在保加利亚 Chirpan 附近的 Azmaka 采石场发现了一颗人科上颌前臼齿。相关的动物群，特别是象类中 Choerolophodon 和 Anancus 的共存，以及 Hipparion 中 Cremohipparion matthewi 和 Hippotherium brachypus 的共存，限制了该地点的年龄为中始新世晚期（约 700 万年前），使其成为欧洲大陆和小亚细亚最晚的史前人类。现有的形态和度量数据与希腊的瓦尔森阶的 Ouranopithecus 更为相似，而与土耳其和格鲁吉亚的早至中始新世人类的形态和度量数据不太相似，但时间差距表明两者没有直接的亲缘关系，也不能排除来自东方的始新世迁徙。