The coast-line on Danakil as an open grassland led to the speciation of grazing horses, where Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli , the descendant of Miocene E. feibeli which lived and ate in forests, co-existed with Ardipithecus ramidus on Danakil 4.4 million years ago[1].
The geography of Pliocene Danakil could have been similar to the island of Crete, one of the most seismically active areas in the eastern Mediterranean.
Once an island is cut off, there is bound to be rapid evolution to fill all the habitat niches, and in parallel with Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli, the Paranthropus genus also speciated to feed of the grass, with the oldest fossil found 3.5 million years ago[2], living side by side with Australopithecus afarensis and descendant from the interbreeding event 6 million years ago[3].
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For how the counter-clockwise migration of Danakil follows the fossil record and how younger derived species are to the north-east, I´ve only looked at a small sample, but just as I am writing this, I looked up where the descendant of Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli is found, the species E. hasumense from 3.5 million years ago, and it is from the Denen Dora formation in Hadar, which is where I would have predicted that it would be found based on the model of a coast line on Dankail as the origin of the sandstone sediments where the fossils in Afar are found (and the entire coast line continuously deposited into the Sea of Afar as the Danakil block rotated. )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurygnathohippus_woldegabrieli
So, the species I have looked at so far are then hipparion, the horse, kolpochoerus, a pig, and ardipithecus and its two descendant lineages australopithecus and paranthropus. It should be quite easy to map the entire fossil record to the rotation of Danakil, I am just looking at the things I come across now to begin with, organic growth.
This here is probably an in-depth look at the Hipparion species in Afar, for anyone who wants to verify the data,
https://www.academia.edu/2870598/A_contribution_to_the_evolutionary_history_of_Ethiopian_hipparionine_horses_Mammalia_Equidae_morphometric_evidence_from_the_postcranial_skeleton
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I would say everyone is a researcher. I have loved nature since I was born, and loved learning about it and studying it, and labels overall are a 20th century invention anyway.
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