Background Gaudeamus is an enigmatic hystricognathous rodent that was, until recently,
known solely from fragmentary material from early Oligocene sites in Egypt, Oman, and …

Caenopithecine adapiform primates are currently represented by two genera from the late
Eocene of Egypt (Afradapis and Aframonius) and one from the middle Eocene of …

Tenrecs (Tenrecoidea) and golden moles (Chrysochloroidea) are among the most enigmatic
mammals alive today. Molecular data strongly support their inclusion in the morphologically …

The Eocene was a time of high ophidian diversity across much of the world, dominated by
booid-grade snakes. A series of extinction events during and at the end of the Eocene …

Anthropoid primates other than humans show a conspicuously disjunct geographic
distribution today, inhabiting mostly tropical and subtropical parts of Asia, Africa, and Central …

In this paper, we describe four fossil rodent taxa from two new localities situated in the Idam
Unit ('Bioturbated Unit') of the Dur At-Talah escarpment in central Libya. These rodents …

Abstract Interpretation of Radarsat-1, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and
Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) data provided an overview of the evolving …

Abstract 'Paraphiomys' simonsi is a phiomorph rodent from the early Oligocene of Egypt (~
29–30 Mya) that has historically been aligned with much younger (<~ 20 Mya) Miocene …

In the early nineteen sixties, Arambourg and Magnier found some freshwater fish (ie,
Polypterus sp., Siluriformes indet. and Lates sp.) mixed with marine members in an Eocene …

Despite numerous discoveries that have considerably enriched the African-Arabian Tertiary
fossil record over the last decades, our knowledge of the evolutionary history of many …