Title

Early Cenozoic mammalian faunas, Fayum Province, Egypt: Part I. African Oligocene mammals: Introduction, history of study, and faunal succession. Part II. The African Oligocene Rodentia. Part II. The African Oligocene Rodentia.

Authors

Elwyn L. Simons, Department of Geology and Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Albert E. Wood, Department of Biology, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

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Description

Part I. The vertebrate microfaunas described in this paper have been recovered as a result of six seasons of paleontological exploration in the upper Eocene and Oligocene badlands exposures of the Fayum Province, U.A.R., a project initiated and directed by E. L. Simons.... Part II. The large Yale collections of rodents from the Early Oligocene Jebel el Qatrani Formation of the Fayum, Egypt, permit a thorough study of this, the earliest rodent faunule from Africa….

Issue Number

28

Publication Date

1968

Recommended Citation

Simons, Elwyn L., and Albert E. Wood. 1968. "Early Cenozoic mammalian faunas, Fayum Province, Egypt: Part I. African Oligocene mammals: Introduction, history of study, and faunal succession. Part II. The African Oligocene Rodentia. Part II. The African Oligocene Rodentia.." Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History , (28). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/peabody_museum_natural_history_bulletin/28