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 …

Anthropoid primates other than humans show a conspicuously disjunct geographic
distribution today, inhabiting mostly tropical and subtropical parts of Asia, Africa, and Central …

Hyaenodonta is a diverse, extinct group of carnivorous mammals that included weasel-to
rhinoceros-sized species. The oldest-known hyaenodont fossils are from the middle …

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 …

Recent palaeontological field campaigns in the westernmost part of the Sahara (Dakhla
region, Morocco) have resulted in the discovery of a mammal assemblage including …

Tenrecs (Tenrecoidea) and golden moles (Chrysochloroidea) are among the most enigmatic
mammals alive today. Molecular data strongly support their inclusion in the morphologically …

The Eocene was a time of high ophidian diversity across much of the world, dominated by
booid-grade snakes. A series of extinction events during and at the end of the Eocene …

New remains of the early Eocene hyaenodontid Indohyaenodon raoi are described from the
Vastan Lignite Mine in Gujarat, western India, including the first known rostrum, upper …

Based on fossil discoveries and phylogenetic studies, an Eocene Asian origin for
hystricognathous rodents and anthropoid primates has gained strong support in recent …

Although advanced anthropoid primates (ie, Simiiformes) are recorded at the end of the
Eocene in North Africa (Proteopithecidae, Parapithecidae, and Oligopithecidae), the origin …