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    Late middle Eocene epoch of Libya yields earliest known radiation of African anthropoids

    The origin of the anthropoids — higher primates including monkeys, apes and humans — is shrouded in mystery. Fossils from the Eocene of Africa have suggested that they originated in that continent, but this ha...

    Jean-Jacques Jaeger, K. Christopher Beard, Yaowalak Chaimanee, Mustafa Salem in Nature (2010)

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

    A new African species of hystricognathous rodent, Gaudeamus lavocati sp. nov., is described herein from the early Oligocene deposits of Zallah locality (Sirt basin, Central Libya). The dental morphology of this s...

    Pauline Coster, Mouloud Benammi, Vincent Lazzari, Guillaume Billet in Naturwissenschaften (2010)