Oldest record of a crown anomaluroid rodent from sub-Saharan Africa: a new genus and species from the early Oligocene Topernawi formation of northern Kenya
Erik R. Seiffert, Steven Heritage, Dorien de Vries, Hesham M. Sallam, Natasha S. Vitek, Emmanuel Aoron, Patricia Princehouse
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Abstract
Anomaluroid rodents (i.e. Anomaluridae + Zenkerellidae) have a long evolutionary history in Africa dating back to at least the middle Eocene, but Palaeogene fossil members of the anomaluroid crown ...
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Historical Biology is an international peer reviewed journal publishing original research and review papers covering developments in the sciences concerned with the history of life through geological time and the biology of past organisms, and seeks to encourage a diversity of approaches in this rapidly expanding field, especially new technologies.