What is Australopithecus deyiremeda?
{{italictitle}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = [[Pliocene]], {{Fossil range|3.5|3.3}} | image = | image_caption = | genus = Australopithecus | species = deyiremeda | authority = [[Yohannes Haile-Selassie|Haile-Selassie]] ''et al.'', 2015 }} '''''Australopithecus deyiremeda''''' is an extinct [[hominin]] which lived about 3.4 million years ago in northern [[Ethiopia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/new-big-toothed-prehistoric-human-lived-alongside-lucy-150527.htm|title=Big-toothed prehistoric human lived alongside 'Lucy'|work=DNews}}</ref><ref name=Nature>Haile-Selassie Y. ''et al'' 2015. New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity. ''Nature'' '''521''' (7553): 483. [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7553/full/nature14448.html]</ref><ref name=Nature2>Spoor F. 2015. Palaeoanthropology: the middle Pliocene gets crowded. ''Nature'' '''521''' (7553): 432. doi:10.1038/521432a. [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7553/full/521432a.html]</ref> This was around the same time and place as several previously discovered specimens of ''[[Australopithecus afarensis]]'' were found. They include the well known [[Lucy_(Australopithecus)|Lucy]]. The discovery was in the [[Afar Region]] of [[Ethiopia]] about {{convert|325|mi|km}} (520 kilometers) northeast of the capital [[Addis Ababa]] and {{convert|22|mi|km}} north of [[Hadar]], Ethiopia (“Lucy’s” site).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cmnh.org/about-the-museum/press-room/Press-releases/Australopithecus-deyiremeda |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-05-28 |archive-date=2016-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418123626/https://www.cmnh.org/about-the-museum/press-room/press-releases/australopithecus-deyiremeda |url-status=dead }}</ref> Teeth in the fossil jaw suggest that the species had a different diet from ''A. afarensis''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/27/us-science-fossils-idUSKBN0OC28120150527|title=Ethiopian fossils represent new member of human f