[HTML][HTML] New fossils from the Paleogene of central Libya illuminate the evolutionary history of endemic African anomaluroid rodents

PMC Coster, KC Beard, MJ Salem… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Anomaluroid rodents show interesting biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns,
although their fossil record is meager and knowledge of the natural history of extant …

Anomaluroid rodents from the earliest Oligocene of Dakhla, Morocco, reveal the long-lived and morphologically conservative pattern of the Anomaluridae and …

L Marivaux, S Adnet, M Benammi… - Journal of Systematic …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Recent palaeontological field campaigns in the westernmost part of the Sahara (Dakhla
region, Morocco) have resulted in the discovery of a mammal assemblage including …

A large-bodied anomaluroid rodent from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications

HM Sallam, ER Seiffert, EL Simons… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new genus and species of anomaluroid rodent, Kabirmys qarunensis, is
described based on isolated teeth, partial mandibles, and an edentulous partial maxilla from …

New remains of Pondaungimys anomaluropsis (Rodentia, Anomaluroidea) from the Latest Middle Eocene Pondaung Formation of Central Myanmar

L Marivaux, S Ducrocq, JJ Jaeger… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Except for the few specimens previously reported from the late middle Eocene of North
Africa (Algeria) and more recently from South Asia (Myanmar), the fossil record of …

The early evolutionary history of anomaluroid rodents in Africa: new dental remains of a zegdoumyid (Zegdoumyidae, Anomaluroidea) from the Eocene of Tunisia

L Marivaux, EM Essid, W Marzougui… - Zoologica …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The Late Early‐to‐Early Middle Eocene Zegdoumyidae are the oldest representatives of the
order Rodentia to be known in Africa thus far. Despite the fragmentary nature of their fossil …

New hystricognathous rodents from the early Oligocene of central Libya (Zallah Oasis, Sahara Desert): systematic, phylogenetic, and biochronologic implications

P Coster, M Benammi, M Salem, AA Bilal… - Annals of Carnegie …, 2012 - BioOne
Four fossil rodent taxa are described from a new locality in the Oligocene Continental and
Transitional Marine Deposits outcropping in the vicinity of Zallah, Sirt Basin, central Libya …

A highly derived anomalurid rodent (Mammalia) from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt

HM Sallam, ER Seiffert, EL Simons - Palaeontology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A new genus and species of diminutive anomalurid rodent, Shazurus minutus, is described
on the basis of 15 isolated teeth from the earliest late Eocene (approximately 37 Ma) Birket …

Rare crested rat subfossils unveil Afro–Eurasian ecological corridors synchronous with early human dispersals

IA Lazagabaster, V Rovelli, PH Fabre… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Biotic interactions between Africa and Eurasia across the Levant have invoked particular
attention among scientists aiming to unravel early human dispersals. However, it remains …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient phylogenetic divergence of the enigmatic African rodent Zenkerella and the origin of anomalurid gliding

S Heritage, D Fernández, HM Sallam, DT Cronin… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
The “scaly-tailed squirrels” of the rodent family Anomaluridae have a long evolutionary
history in Africa, and are now represented by two gliding genera (Anomalurus and Idiurus) …

New dinosaurs link southern landmasses in the Mid–Cretaceous

PC Sereno, JA Wilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Abelisauroid predators have been recorded almost exclusively from South America, India
and Madagascar, a distribution thought to document persistent land connections exclusive …