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Synopsis
This monograph presents the results of over 10 years of survey and excavation work collecting fossils from the Baynunah Formation of western Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The Baynunah fossils provide the only record of environment and evolution of terrestrial animals from the late Miocene (12-5 Ma) epoch from the entire Arabian Peninsula.
The monograph primarily describes new fossil collections systematically by taxon, including mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates, framing these within the context of results from new geological and geochemical analysis. Vertebrate paleontologists, paleoanthropologists, and natural history enthusiasts will discover new scientific findings of ostracod, fish, aves, carnivora, hippopotamidae and equidae fossils. Contributors to the monograph are specialists who have over the last 10 years dedicated time to studying the new Baynunah fossil collections.
Synopsis
This monograph presents the results of over 10 years of paleontological and geological survey in the Baynunah Formation of the United Arab Emirates. Exposed widely in western Abu Dhabi Emirate, the Baynunah Formation and its fossils provide the only record of terrestrial environments and evolution in the Arabian Peninsula during the late Miocene epoch (12-5 Ma).
This volume describes new fossils collected since 2002, presented systematically by taxon, and including mammals, reptiles, and invertebrates, as well as fossil trackways. The discoveries are framed within the results of new geological, geochemical, and geochrononological analyses, providing an updated and synthetic view of the age, environments, and biogeographic relationships of this important fossil assemblage.