CHAD: DISCOVERY OF A VERTEBRATE FAUNA CLOSE TO THE MIO-PLIOCENE BOUNDARY

By M. Brunet, A. Beauvilain, D. Billiou, H. Bocherens, J. Boisserie, L. de Bonis, P. Branger, A. Brunet, Y. Coppens, R. Daams and 31 more. 2000

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Subfields: Geometry and Topology, Paleontology

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In Geometry and Topology

1. Michael Benton
2. C. Brochu
3. G. Merceron

In Paleontology

1. Michael Benton
2. M. Friedman
3. G. Storrs
4. G. Merceron
5. T. Near
6. C. Blondel
7. P. Donoghue
8. M. Brunet

Citations in the corpus

• Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history (2015, background): “, 2010), and Toros-Menalla of Chad (Brunet et al., 2000). Phylogenetic Justification. Following Sanders et al. (2010), isolated teeth from the African sites mentioned above exhibit loxodont apomorphies, including propeller or lozenge shaped wear patterns.”
• A Giant Crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene of Kenya, the Phylogenetic Relationships of Neogene African Crocodylines, and the Antiquity of Crocodylus in Africa (2012, background): “The species has been reported from several African locations ranging in age from early Miocene through Pleistocene (e.g., Tchernov, 1986; Pickford, 1996, 2000; Brunet et al., 2000; Llinas Agrasar, 2004).”
• Diets of modern and late Miocene hippopotamids: Evidence from carbon isotope composition and micro-wear of tooth enamel (2005, methodology): “The dC values of the Chadian fossils are overall similar to those obtained by Cerling et al. (2003b) for the hippopotamids (most probably Hex.”