Giant hyracoid from basal Middle Miocene deposits at Gebel Zelten, Libya

M. Pickford

doi:10.3989/egeol.0662144

Giant hyracoid from basal Middle Miocene deposits at Gebel Zelten, Libya

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M. Pickford Collège de France, and Département Histoire de la Terre

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https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.0662144

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Middle Miocene, Gebel Zelten, Hyracoidea, Metapodial

Abstract

Previous records of the presence of the hyracoid Prohyrax sp. at Gebel Zelten are unsubstantiated and the original material seems to have been lost. A distal metapodial of a large hyracoid collected by R. Savage at locality W, Gebel Zelten, is similar in morphology and dimensions to a fossil from Nova, South Africa provisionally attributed to Parapliohyrax. Large hyracoids were thus present in Libya during the early part of the Middle Miocene.

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2006-12-30

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Pickford, M. (2006). Giant hyracoid from basal Middle Miocene deposits at Gebel Zelten, Libya. Estudios Geológicos, 62(1), 495–498. https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.0662144

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Vol. 62 No. 1 (2006)

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