Oligocene and Early Miocene Ruminants (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Pakistan and Uganda
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Date
2005
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Palaeontologia Electronica
Abstract
Late Oligocene and Early Miocene fossil ruminants from Napak and Moroto in
Uganda and the Zinda Pir sequence in Pakistan comprise at least eight taxa, including
an indeterminate lophiomerycid, ?Gelocus gajensis, Walangania africanus, Bugtimeryx
pilgrimi, an indeterminate large cervoid, Progiraffa exigua, Palaeohypsodontus zinensis,
and an unnamed bovid. The fossils range in age between 25 and 16 million years
old and together with species of tragulids provide evidence for the existence of diverse
latest Oligocene and earliest Miocene ruminant faunas in sub-Saharan Africa and
southern Asia. The fossils from Pakistan may also document the first appearance and
subsequent radiation of giraffes and bovids, two groups that dominate later Neogene
and modern herbivore faunas.
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Ruminants, Miocene, Early, Oligocene, Pakistan, East Africa
Citation
Barry, JC, Cote, S., MacLatchy, L., Lindsay, EH, Kityo, R., & Rajpar, AR (2005). Oligocene and early miocene ruminants (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Pakistan and Uganda. Palaeontologia Electronica , 8 (1), 1-29.