The Miocene Anthracotheriidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Nementcha, eastern Algeria

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Monatshefte

Volumn , Issue 3, 2001, Pages 145-156

  Ducrocq, Stéphane ^a   Coiffait, Brigitte ^b   Coiffait, Philippe Emmanuel ^b   Mahboubi, Mohamed ^c   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACOTHERIIDAE; ARTIODACTYLA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0042868825     PISSN: 00283630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpm/2001/2001/145     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. BARRY, J. C. & FLYNN, L. J. (1990): Key biostratigraphic events in the Siwaliks sequence. - In: LINDSAY, E. H., FAHLBUSCH, V. & MEIN, P. (Eds.): European Neogene Mammal Chronology: 557-571; New York (Plenum Press).
2. BLACK, C. C. (1972): A new species of Merycopotamus (Artiodactyla: Anthracotheriidae) from the late Miocene of Tunisia. - Notes Serv. Géol. Tunisie, 6: 5-39, Tunis.
3. - (1978): Anthracotheriidae. - In: MAGLIO, V. J. & COOKE, H. B. S. (Eds.): Evolution of African Mammals: 423-434, Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard Univ. Press).
4. BONARELLI, G. (1947): Dinosauro fossile del Sahara Cirenaico. - Riv. Biol. Colon. Roma, 8: 23-33; Roma.
5. COIFFAIT, P.-E., COIFFAIT, B., JAEGER, J.-J. & MAHBOUBI, M. (1984): Un nouveau gisement à mammifères fossiles d'âge Eocène supérieur sur le versant sud des Nementcha (Algérie orientale): découverte des plus anciens rongeurs d'Afrique. - C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, (II), 299: 893-898; Paris.
6. COLBERT, E. H. (1935): Siwalik mammals in the American Museum of Natural History. - Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., 26; 1-401; Philadelphia.
7. DE BONIS, L., JAEGER, J.-J., COIFFAIT, B. & COIFFAIT, P.-E. (1988): Découverte du plus ancien primate catarrhinien connu dans l'Eocène supérieur d'Afrique du Nord. - C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, (II), 306: 929-934; Paris.
8. GAZIRY, A. W. (1987a): New mammals from the Jabal Zaltan site, Libya. - Senckenb. Lethaea, 68: 69-89; Frankfurt (Main).
9. - (1987b): Merycopotamus petrocchii (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from Sahabi, Libya. - In: BOAZ, N. T., EL-ARNAUTY, A., DE HEINZELIN, J. & BOAZ, D. D. (Eds.): Neogene Paleontology and Geology of Sahabi: 287-302; New York (Alan R. Riss, Inc.).
10. GILL, T. (1872): Arrangement of the families of mammals and synoptical tables of characters of the subdivisions of mammals. - Smiths. Misc. Coll., 21: 1-98, Washington.
11. OWEN, R. (1948): Description of teeth and portions of jaws of two extinct anthracotheroid quadrupeds (Hyopotamus vectianus and H. bovinus) discovered by the Marchioness of Hastings, in the Eocene deposits on the N. W. coast of the Isle of Wight, with an attempt to develop Cuvier's idea of the classification of pachyderms by the number of their toes. - Quart. J. Geol. Soc. 4: 101-141, London.
12. PICKFORD, M. (1991a): Revision of the Neogene Anthracotheriidae of Africa. The Geology of Libya, 4: 1491-1525; Amsterdam (Elsevier).
13. - (1991b): Biostratigraphic correlation of the middle Miocene mammal locality of Jabal Zaltan, Libya. The Geology of Libya, 4: 1483-1490; Amsterdam (Elsevier).
14. - (1994): Anthracotheriidae from the Albertine Rift Valley. In: Geology and Palaeobiology of The Albertine Rift Valley, Uganda-Zaire: II: Palaeobiology, CIFEG Occas. Publ.: 309-319; Orléans.
15. TABUCE, R. (1998): La faune mammalienne de Bir El Ater (Eoc̀ene, Algérie). Nouvelles données sur le clade "Africana". - Mémoire de DEA, Montpellier.
16. TASSY, P. (1990): The "Proboscidean Datum Event": how many proboscideans and how many events ? - In: LINDSAY, E. H., FAHLBUSCH, V. & MEIN, P. (Eds.): European Neogene Mammal Chronology: 237-252; New York (Plenum Press).