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Giant hyracoid from basal Middle Miocene deposits at Gebel Zelten, Libya
No full textPrevious 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.Los registros previos de la presencia del hyracoideo Prohyrax sp. en Gebel Zelten son insuficientes y el material original parece haberse perdido. Un fragmento distal de metápodo de un gran hyracoideo recolectado por R. Savage en la localidad W, Gebel Zelten es similar en morfología y dimensiones al fósil de Nova, Sudáfrica provisionalmente atribuidos a Parapliohyrax. Los grandes hyracoideos estuvieron presentes en Libia durante la primera parte del Mioceno Medio
Lettre de M. Auguste Mariette à M. le vicomte de Rougé sur une stèle trouvée à Gebel-Barkal
No full textRougé Emmanuel de. Lettre de M. Auguste Mariette à M. le vicomte de Rougé sur une stèle trouvée à Gebel-Barkal. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 7ᵉ année, 1863. pp. 119-126
New suoid specimens from Gebel Zelten, Libya
No full textA restricted collection of suoids from Gebel Zelten was made in the 1990’s by the Spanish-Libyan Palaeontology Expedition. Dr Dolores Soria filmed the specimens with a video camera and took measurements of the teeth with vernier calipers. This paper uses the images from the video, which, even though somewhat limited in terms of picture quality, are of interest because they represent the first known snout of the gigantic suid Megalochoerus khinzikebirus. The images reveal that it is basically an enlarged version of Libycochoerus massai, but with relatively small premolars. The sanithere specimens from the site were photographed with an Olympus 1.4 megapixel digital camera, and the image quality is better than from the video camera. These specimens throw light on the degree of sexual dimorphism exhibited by sanitheres, a feature that was previously inferred from isolated teeth, but which can now be confirmed on the basis of the two mandible fragments from Gebel Zelten. This paper is dedicated to the memory of Dr Soria. This paper takes into account a few undescribed suid post-cranial bones from Gebel Zelten housed in the Natural History Museum, London, collected during the 1960’s by R. Savage.Una limitada colección de suoideos procedentes de Gebel Zelten fue hecha a finales de los años 1990 por una expedición paleontológica internacional, con participación española y libia. La Dra. Dolores Soria filmó los ejemplares con una cámara de vídeo y tomó las medidas de los dientes con calibre. En este trabajo se utilizan las imágenes filmadas, que, aunque algo limitadas en términos de calidad fotográfica, son interesantes porque representan las primeras conocidas del rostro del suido gigante Megalochoerus khinzikebirus. Las imágenes revelan que básicamente es una versión agrandada de Libycochoerus massai, pero con premolares relativamente más pequeños. Los ejemplares de saniterios fueron fotografiados con una cámara digital Olympus de 1,4 megapixeles, y la calidad de las imágenes son mejores que las de la cámara de vídeo. Estos ejemplares arrojan nueva luz sobre el grado de dimorfismo sexual exhibido por los saniterios, un hecho que había sido previamente inferido sólo a partir de dientes aislados, pero que ahora puede ser confirmado en base a dos fragmentos de mandíbula de Gebel Zelten. Este trabajo está dedicado a la memoria de la Dra. Soria. En este trabajo se consideran algunos huesos postcraneales inéditos procedentes de Gebel Zelten, depositados en el Natural History Museum de Londres y recolectados durante los años 1960 por R. Savage
Inscription historique du roi Pianchi-Mériamoun découverte par M. Mariette au Gebel-Barkal
No full textRougé Emmanuel de. Inscription historique du roi Pianchi-Mériamoun découverte par M. Mariette au Gebel-Barkal. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 7ᵉ année, 1863. pp. 158-180
diversity modeling for Gebel Elba
No full textThe raw data was used for predictive modeling and mapping plant alpha and beta diversity in the arid mountain Gebel Elba, South-East Egyp
Stably expressed self-tolerance to arsenic in HepG2 cells is associated with a depressed induction of micronuclei
No full textStably expressed self-tolerance to arsenic in HepG2 cells is associated with a depressed induction of micronuclei
No full textSurveying the sandstone quarries of Gebel el Silsila
No full textIn 2012 a Swedish project was initiated to study and document the archaeological remains at Gebel el Silsila, located about 65 km north of Aswan and 130 km south of Luxor. Mission director Dr. Maria Nilsson of Lund University summarizes the results of the first three seasons
Oligocene age of the Gebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum, Egypt
No full textSea level sequence stratigraphy is especially valuable for correlating marine stages on passively subsiding continental margins. The continental Gebel Qatrani Formation in Egypt is separated from the underlying marine Qasr el-Sagha Formation by a major unconformity with a minimum of 76 m of section missing due to erosion and/or non-deposition. This unconformity is constrained by Priabonian planktonic foraminifera in the Gehannam Formation to be younger than early late Eocene and it is constrained by radiometric ages and a great thickness of Gebel Qatrani Formation to be older than late Oligocene. The only "type-1" sequence boundary within these age constraints that involved a low enough sea stand to explain the unconformity was at the Priabonian-Rupelian (Eocene-Oligocene) boundary, which means that the Gebel Qatrani Formation is entirely Oligocene in age. This corroborates earlier age assignments based on invertebrate and vertebrate faunal succession and it is consistent with new paleomagnetic evidence. The Gebel Qatrani Formation has yielded the earliest primates of anthropoid grade and the evolutionary emergence of higher primates may be related to profound environmental change during the Eocene-Oligocene transition.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/30939/1/0000609.pd
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