Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia

J Kappelman, D Tab Rasmussen, WJ Sanders… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
… of the ecological attributes of Afro-Arabia's Oligocene fauna. For … they were widespread
herbivores in Afro-Arabia, and occupied … fauna many aspects of Afro-Arabia's Oligocene/Miocene …

The Afro-Arabian component in the Levantine mammalian fauna—a short biogeographical review

E Tchernov - Israel Journal of Zoology, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
Afro-Eurasian Neogene-Quaternary biotic interchanges, resulting from the drawing up of the
northern edge of the Afro-Arabian … The extensive plate tectonics which split Arabia and Trans…

Afro-Eurasian mammalian fauna and early hominin dispersals

A Turner, HJ O'regan - The Evolution and History of Human Populations in …, 2007 - Springer
… Miocene movement of faunas into and out of Africa probably took place across southern
Arabia (Tchernov, 1992), although we know little of the Miocene mammalian fauna of that region …

Early primate evolution in AfroArabia

ER Seiffert - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… attesting to Afro-Arabia's continued isolation from Europe and Asia by the Tethys Sea.
Definitive fossil evidence for filtered faunal exchange does not occur in the Afro-Arabian record for …

The East Africa Oligocene intertrappean beds: Regional distribution, depositional environments and Afro/Arabian mammal dispersals

E Abbate, P Bruni, MP Ferretti, C Delmer… - Journal of African Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
… of the Tethyan Ocean between Arabia and southwestern Asia, … severe aridity with faunal
exchanges toward the luxuriously … position within the Afro-Arabian flood volcanic succession. …

Archaeological, linguistic and historical sources on ancient seafaring: a multidisciplinary approach to the study of early maritime contact and exchange in the Arabian …

N Boivin, R Blench, DQ Fuller - … evolution of human populations in Arabia …, 2010 - Springer
… The richer vegetation of the semi-desert and savannah interior of Early to Mid-Holocene
Arabia supported a more diverse and extensive fauna that could in turn support hunters, as well …

Global Interfaces and the Earliest Evidence for Afro-Eurasian Exchange

MN Pareja - Imperial Horizons of the Silk Roads: Archaeological …, 2023 - torrossa.com
… that the earliest exchange begins as early as … Afro-Eurasian exchange as something more
than informal and opportunistic. This suggests, problematically, that each culture exchanged

Classifying biogeographic realms of the endemic fauna in the AfroArabian region

A Soultan, M Wikelski, K Safi - Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… We propose classifying the Afro-Arabian region into three discrete biogeographic realms
for endemic amphibians, four for reptiles and birds, and five discrete biogeographic realms for …

Weighing the evidence for ancient afro-arabian cultural connections through neolithic rock art

SL Olsen - Human Interaction with the Environment in the Red …, 2017 - brill.com
… lowland landscape was rich in savanna flora and fauna in many areas. Animals like crocodiles,
… In Arabia, there was also a diverse fauna that included the onager, Equus hemionus, or …

The origin of AfroArabian 'didelphimorph'marsupials

JJ Hooker, MR SÁNCHEZ‐VILLAGRA, FJ Goin… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… The early Paleogene faunas of Afro-Arabia are dominated by endemics, mainly
macroscelideans, hyracoids, proboscideans and enigmatic ‘insectivorans’. In the last 15 years, new …