| 单词 | laetolil beds |
| 释义 | > as lemmasLaetolil beds Used attributively with reference to a series of volcanic Pliocene deposits in northern Tanzania and their associated fossils, notably (in later use) three trails of footprints made by bipedal hominids and dated to 3.6 million years ago; esp. in Laetolil beds. ΚΠ 1936 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 17 637 Kanjera and the Vogel River (Laetolil) Beds are also Middle Pleistocene. 1941 Geol. Mag. 78 182 The widely occurring surface limestone was seen resting directly on the Laetolil surface. 1954 Amer. Anthropologist 56 379 In the Laetolil beds of the Vogel river..a hominid maxillary fragment with two premolar teeth has been found. 1979 M. D. Leakey & R. H. Hay in Nature 22 Mar. 317/1 The name Laetoli will be used for the area, but the Pliocene deposits will continue to be known as the Laetolil Beds. 1992 Nat. Hist. Feb. 68/3 The bipedal Laetoli hominid had an apelike brain and was probably the common ancestor of modern hominids. 2003 B. A. Ogot My Footpr. Sands Time xii. 330 He suggested that Laetolil hominids..should be considered together with the Hadar material, because they comprise the oldest definitive evidence of the Hominidae. 2004 B. Olsen Sacred Places around World (ed. 2) 216 The Laetoli footprints prove conclusively that walking on two legs was well established before 3.6 million years ago. < as lemmas |
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