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Original - Cast of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis holotype cranium TM 266-01-060-1, dubbed "Toumaï", in facio-lateral view. Sahelanthropus tchadensis is an extinct hominid species that is dated to about 7 million years ago. Other than Toumaï, the only Sahelanthropus remains to be discovered are five pieces of jaw and some teeth.
Reason
Massive resolution, very high quality, great lighting, huge EV, striking and very encyclopedic. The only thing that stops this being a perfect nomination, in my eyes, is the fact that it is a cast of the original, rather than the original itself. However, there's only one, so it's not the easiest thing to photograph. Equally, we have promoted scans of copies of noted photographs, and, on a similar note, biological illustrations. So, after some thought, I feel that this does deserve its place as a featured picture, as it already is on Commons, the German Wikipedia and Spanish Wikipedia. Caption copied from the image page.
Articles in which this image appears
Sahelanthropus
FP category for this image
Animals/Mammals
Creator
Didier Descouens

Promoted File:Sahelanthropus tchadensis - TM 266-01-060-1.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 18:59, 15 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]