This securely placed the valley fill and fossils between roughly 162,000 and 119,000 years ago in the late Middle Pleistocene era.
Known Homo erectus fossils from Java’s Sambungmacan site were matched to two fragments of Homo erectus cranium, a frontal and a parietal bone.
The tight match verified the Madura Strait fossils as Homo erectus, therefore broadening the known distribution of the species into the now-submerged Sundaland area.
Currently regarded as the first underwater hominid fossil occurrence in Sundaland, this site
The scientists also discovered fossils of Stegodon, an extinct genus of big herbivorous mammals akin to current elephants.
Rising to 13 feet at the shoulder, this behemoth weighed more than 10 tons.
