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Artist focusing on paleomammalogy https://matejfrantisek.calfa.sk/

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New Apterodontinae (Hyaenodontida) from the Eocene Locality of Dur At-Talah (Libya): Systematic, Paleoecological and Phylogenetical Implications The African Hyaenodontida, mainly known from the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene Fayum depression in Egypt, show a very poor diversity in oldest Paleogene localities. Here we report new hyaenodontidan...

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23.11.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Althought superficially resembling the living lutrines, this genus had very different body proportions, the most prominent being the massive head (a trait present across the rest of Hyainailouridae). Here reconstructed at the edge of a river bank with couple of mud shrimps.

23.11.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Apterodon langebadreae

23.11.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the extant Reeves's muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)

07.11.2025 21:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(PDF) Pleistocene small porcupine from the Ural Mountains, Russia, with note on taxonomy of Hystrix vinogradovi (Rodentia, Hystricidae) PDF | On Jan 1, 2003, G.F. Baryshnikov published Pleistocene small porcupine from the Ural Mountains, Russia, with note on taxonomy of Hystrix vinogradovi (Rodentia, Hystricidae) | Find, read and cite...

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Hystrix vinogradovi - extinct porcupine species of Pleistocene Ural mountains, Russia

07.11.2025 21:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vulpes mathisoni, sp. nov., a new fox from the Pliocene Mursi Formation of southern Ethiopia and its contribution to the origin of African foxes We describe here Vulpes mathisoni, sp. nov., a new species of fox from the Mursi Formation of Ethiopia, dated to ca. 4 Ma., based upon a complete cranium with mandible. It is similar in size to V. ...

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Vulpes mathisoni - extinct species of fox of Pliocene Ethiopia

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(PDF) The oldest African fox (Vulpes riffautae n. sp., Canidae, Carnivora) recovered in late Miocene deposits of the Djurab Desert, Chad PDF | We report on the oldest fox (Canidae) ever found in Africa. It is dated to 7 Ma based on the degree of evolution of the whole fauna. It belongs to... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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22.10.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vulpes riffautae - an extinct fox species of Late Miocene Chad.

22.10.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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