Gaudeamus lavocati sp. nov. (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the early Oligocene of Zallah, Libya: First African caviomorph?

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 697-706

  Coster, Pauline ^a   Benammi, Mouloud ^a   Lazzari, Vincent ^a   Billet, Guillaume ^a   Martin, Thomas ^b   Salem, Mustafa ^c   Bilal, Awad Abolhassan ^d   Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^e   Schuster, Mathieu ^a   Valentin, Xavier ^a   Brunet, Michel ^f   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UFR SFA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c University of El Fateh   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BENGHAZI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^e Bureau of Paleontology and Museum Bangkok   (Thailand)

^f l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Caviomorpha; Eocene; Hystricognathi; Phiomorpha; South America

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANCESTRY; CLADISTICS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DENTITION; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMOLOGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIGRATION ROUTE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; OASIS; OLIGOCENE; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLASSIFICATION; DENTITION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MIGRATION; RODENT; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENTITION; ECOSYSTEM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; LIBYA; RODENTIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CAVIOMORPHA; HYSTRICOGNATHI; PHIOMYIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 77955518992     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0683-x     Document Type: Article

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