A LATE MIOCENE RODENT FAUNA FROM THE BAYNUNAH FORMATION, EMIRATE OF ABU-DHABI, UNITED-ARAB-EMIRATES

Authors
DEBRUIJN H WHYBROW PJ
Citation
H. Debruijn et Pj. Whybrow, A LATE MIOCENE RODENT FAUNA FROM THE BAYNUNAH FORMATION, EMIRATE OF ABU-DHABI, UNITED-ARAB-EMIRATES, Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 97(4), 1994, pp. 407-422
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen → ACNP
ISSN journal
09248323
Volume
97
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
407 - 422
Database
ISI
SICI code
0924-8323(1994)97:4<407:ALMRFF>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
A new genus and species of gerbillids, Abudhabia baynunensis is descri bed. Other rodents identified are an indeterminate thryonomyid; a muri d, Parapelomys cf. charkhensis; two indeterminate species of Dendromus ; Myocricetodon sp. indet. and an indeterminate soricid. This associat ion of small mammals, the first from the Arabian late Miocene, compris es a mix of African and southwest Asian rodent faunas and indicates a Late Turolian (?Messinian) age for the fluvial part of the Baynunah Fo rmation.