We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …

The Rukwa Rift Basin Project was initiated to conduct exploratory field paleontology in
poorly sampled terrestrial strata in southern and western Tanzania. Here we report the …

The Mesozoic–Cenozoic transition was a period of dramatic global change during which
time the Earth's continents were in the process of fragmenting from a large, relatively …

The evolutionary history of the living African rodent families is a topic of considerable
debate, yet it is generally agreed that the modern cane rats (Thryonomys Fitzinger, 1867) …

DISCUSSION Functionally, many features of TNM 03100 suggest that it belonged to a small,
arboreal quadrupedal primate. The shallow, distal articular surface, combined with a broad …

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 …

Recent screen washing at Bukwa, Uganda, has produced a deciduous lower premolar, a
deciduous upper premolar, and three other upper cheek teeth of tiny thryonomyoid rodents …