Kolpochoerus (Suidae, Mammalia) dento-gnathic remains from Algeria: biostratigraphic implications
| Pages | 329–338 |
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| DOI | 10.37520/fi.2024.025 |
| Keywords | Suidae, Northern Africa, biochronology, Early Pleistocene |
| Type of Article | Peer-reviewed |
| Citation | PICKFORD, Martin a CHAÏD-SAOUDI, Yasmina. Kolpochoerus (Suidae, Mammalia) dento-gnathic remains from Algeria: biostratigraphic implications. Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis. Prague: National Museum, 2024, 80(2), 329–338. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/fi.2024.025. ISSN 2533-4050 (tisk), 2533-4069 (online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/fossil-imprint-acta-musei-nationalis-pragae-series-b-historia-naturalis/80-2/kolpochoerus-suidae-mammalia-dento-gnathic-remains-from-algeria-biostratigraphic-implications |
Dento-gnathic remains of a fossil suine currently housed at the Université d’Alger are accompanied by a label similar to those associated with other fossils excavated by Arambourg in 1951 at Bou Hanifia from deposits that were, at the time, correlated to the upper Vindobonian or late Middle Miocene. The undescribed suine fossils are enigmatic, in that they do not correspond in geological age to other fossils with similar labels. Several questions are posed including the possibility of mis-labelling. The fossils described herein are attributed to the suine Kolpochoerus maroccanus and correspond closely in terms of morphology and dimensions to material of Kolpochoerus heseloni from the Early Pleistocene of Eastern Africa (Shungura Formation D-G, Ethiopia; Burgi level, Kenya).
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