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DOI	10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.09.032
	Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift; central Mozambique; and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts
	Habermann J.M.; Alberti M.; Aldeias V.; Alemseged Z.; Archer W.; Bamford M.; Biro D.; Braun D.R.; Capelli C.; Cunha E.; da Silva M.F.; Lüdecke T.; Madiquida H.; Martinez F.I.; Mathe J.; Negash E.; Paulo L.M.; Pinto M.; Stalmans M.; Regala F.T.; Wynn J.G.; Bobe R.; Carvalho S.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0031-0182
起始页码	723
结束页码	738
卷号	514
英文摘要	The East African Rift System (EARS) has played a central role in our understanding of human origins and vertebrate evolution in the late Cenozoic of Africa. However, the distribution of fossil sites along the rift is highly biased towards its northern extent, and the types of paleoenvironments are primarily restricted to fluvial and lacustrine settings. Here we report the discovery of the first fossil sites from the Urema Rift at Gorongosa National Park (central Mozambique) at the southern end of the EARS, and reconstruct environmental contexts of the fossils. In situ and surface fossils from the lower member of the Mazamba Formation, estimated to be of Miocene age, comprise mammals, reptiles, fishes, invertebrates, palms, and dicot trees. Fossil and geological evidence indicates a coastal-plain paleoenvironmental mosaic of riverine forest/woodland and estuarine habitats that represent the first coastal biomes identified in the Neogene EARS context. Receiving continental sediment from source terranes west of today's Urema Graben, estuarine sequences accumulated prior to rifting as compound incised-valley fills on a low-gradient coastal plain following transgression. Modern environmental analogues are extremely productive habitats for marine and terrestrial fauna, including primates. Thus, our discoveries raise the possibility that the Miocene coastal landscapes of Gorongosa were ecologically-favorable habitats for primates, providing relatively stable maritime climate and ecosystem conditions, year-round freshwater availability, and food both from terrestrial and marine sources. The emerging fossil record from Gorongosa is beginning to fill an important gap in the paleobiogeography of Africa as no fossil sites of Neogene age have previously been reported from the southernmost part of the EARS. Furthermore, this unique window into past continental-margin ecosystems of central Mozambique may allow us to test key paleobiogeographic hypotheses during critical periods of primate evolution. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Continental margin; Depositional environments; Eastern Africa; Landscape reconstruction; Paleontology; Primate behavioral ecology
语种	英语
scopus关键词	behavioral ecology; biome; Cenozoic; coastal zone; continental margin; depositional environment; evolution; fossil record; habitat type; landscape; marine ecosystem; Miocene; Neogene; paleobiogeography; paleoecology; paleoenvironment; paleontology; reconstruction; transgression; vertebrate; East African Rift; Gorongosa National Park; Mozambique; Sofala; Dicotyledoneae; Invertebrata; Mammalia; Pisces; Primates; Reptilia; Vertebrata
来源期刊	Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151183
作者单位	Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB), Universidade do Algarve, Campus Gambelas, Faro, 80005-139, Portugal; Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PN, United Kingdom; GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 5, Erlangen, 91054, Germany; Institut für Geowissenschaften, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Ludewig-Meyn-Str. 10, Kiel, 24118, Germany; Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany; Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, 1027 E. 57th St., Chicago, IL 60637, United States; Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa; Evolutionary Studies Institute and School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, P Bag 3WITS 2050, South ...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Habermann J.M.,Alberti M.,Aldeias V.,et al. Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift; central Mozambique; and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts[J],2019,514.
APA	Habermann J.M..,Alberti M..,Aldeias V..,Alemseged Z..,Archer W..,...&Carvalho S..(2019).Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift; central Mozambique; and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,514.
MLA	Habermann J.M.,et al."Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift; central Mozambique; and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts".Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514(2019).