The peculiar mammalian fauna that inhabited Afro‐Arabia during the Paleogene first came
to the attention of the scientific community in the early part of the twentieth century, when …

Turtles of the clade Testudinoidea have a rather scarce fossil record in Afro-Arabia, ranging
from the late Eocene up to the Quaternary. The vast majority of testudinoid fossils from Afro …

A long-standing problem in primate evolution is the discord between paleontological and
molecular clock estimates for the time of crown primate origins: the earliest crown primate …

Despite African rivers containing high species diversity, continental-scale studies
investigating the mechanisms generating biological diversity of African riverine faunas are …

Biological and physical factors govern the distribution of fossils, but it is not always clear
which is more important. The preservation of late Eocene vertebrates at the UNESCO World …

ABSTRACT A collection of fossil fish teeth and other elements from Eocene deposits on the
northshore of Birket Qarun, Fayum Depression, Egypt, is reported. This collection adds …

Phylogenies with estimates of divergence times are essential for investigating many
evolutionary questions. In principle,“tip-dating” is arguably the most appropriate approach …

Abstract The Fayum Depression of Egypt has yielded fossils of hystricognathous rodents
from multiple Eocene and Oligocene horizons that range in age from∼ 37 to∼ 30 Ma and …

Abstract The Late Middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, central Myanmar hosts the richest
deposit of terrestrial mammals in SE Asia. The Pondaung Formation contains anthropoid …

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