Sahelanthropus tchadensis

found: Work cat.: Interpreting Sahelanthropus tchadensis : cladistic analyses of hominid phylogeny and heuristic evaluations of morphological phylogenetics, 2006.

found: TalkOrigins WWW site, Apr. 3, 2007(Toumaï, Sahelanthropus tchadensis; discovered in 2001 in Chad, estimated to be between 6 and 7 million years old; some scientists consider it to be a hominid, that is, on our side of the chimp-human split; other have suggested that it may come from before the point at which hominids separated from chimps; it may be impossible to know how it is related to us until other fossils can be found from the same time period)

found: Wikipedia WWW site, Apr. 3, 2007(Sahelanthropus tchadensis is a fossil ape originally classified as the oldest possible member of the human family tree, but more recently as a Miocene ape related to humans and other living African apes, that is thought to have lived approximately 7 million years ago)

found: CNN WWW site, Apr. 3, 2007Ancient skull challenges human origins p. (Chad authorities are nicknaming the specimen "Toumai"; scientists describe Toumai as having characteristics of both apes and humans; Toumai is so unlike fossils that currently exist that it is being assigned a new genus and a new species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis)