New rodent assemblages from the Eocene Dur At-Talah escarpment (Sahara of central Libya): Systematic, biochronological, and palaeobiogeographical implications

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 195-213

  Jaeger, Jean jacques ^a   Marivaux, Laurent ^a   Salem, Mustapha ^c   Bilal, Awad abolhassan ^d   BenammI, Mouloud ^e   Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^f   Duringer, Philippe ^g   Marandat, Bernard ^b   Métais, Eddy ^h   Schuster, Mathieu ^a   Valentin, Xavier ^a   Brunet, Michel ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c University of El Fateh   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BENGHAZI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^f Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^h TOTAL   (France)

ⁱ l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Baluchimyinae; Convergences; Dental pattern; Hystricognathi; North Africa; Palaeogene; Palaeontology; Phiomyidae; Rodentia; South Asia

Indexed keywords

BALUCHIMYINAE; HODSAHIBIA; HYSTRICOGNATHI; MAMMALIA; PHIOMYIDAE; PROBOSCIDEA (MAMMAL); RODENTIA;

EID: 77955516646     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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