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SCIENCE
Volume 326, Issue 5949, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175823
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- U. S. NSF [8210897, 9318698, 9512534, 9632389, 9910344, 0321893]
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics of the University of California at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [9512534, 8210897, 9318698] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [9318698, 8210897, 9512534] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [9910344, 0321893, 9632389] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Thousands of vertebrate specimens were systematically collected from the stratigraphic interval containing Ardipithecus ramidus. The carcasses of larger mammals were heavily ravaged by carnivores. Nearly 10,000 small-mammal remains appear to be derived primarily from decomposed owl pellets. The rich avifauna includes at least 29 species, mostly nonaquatic forms. Modern analogs of the most abundant birds and of a variety of rodents are associated with mesic woodland environments distant from large water bodies. These findings support inferences from associated geological, isotopic, invertebrate, and large-vertebrate assemblages. The combined results suggest that Ar. ramidus occupied a wooded Pliocene habitat.
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