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Lucy

Fossilized skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis

Entityindividual animal Hominin fossilQ245388

Instance of: individual animal
, Hominin fossil

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AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40% of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle by Donald Johanson, a paleoanthropologist of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

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Sex or gender: female organism
Discovered: November 24, 1974
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1.efossils.org/page/specimens/Australopithecus%20afarensis
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Discovered by: Donald Johanson
Tom Gray
Maurice Taieb
Yves Coppens
Inventory number: AL 288-1 collection: National Museum of Ethiopia
Location of discovery: Hadar
Individual of taxon: Australopithecus afarensis cumio
Nickname: ድንቅ ነሽ named after: beauty
Lucy named after: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Born: 3200th millennium BCE sourcing circumstances: circa
Collection: National Museum of Ethiopia
Died: 3200th millennium BCE sourcing circumstances: circa
Named after: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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