[Véra Eisenmann]

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Afrique du Nord, Data

Friday 13 March 2020 by Véra Eisenmann

Afrique du Nord, Equus melkiensis and E. aff. melkiensis, other North African occurences

Friday 13 March 2020 by Véra Eisenmann

Fossils resembling E. melkiensis are present at Guyotville Afrique du Nord, Guyotville (AÃ¯n Benian) (lower series GUY 118, Mc GUY 403, Mt GUY405 and 406) ; Aà¯n Tit Mellil (Mt MOC 24 and 25) ; and Sidi Bou Knabel (upper premolar MOC 1964-1-192, lower molar without number, metacarpals MOC (…)

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Afrique du Nord, Equus melkiensis and E. aff. melkiensis at Allobroges

Friday 13 March 2020 by Véra Eisenmann

The type of E. melkiensis is a right metacarpal (Allo 61-1314). Another MC (A 61-16) certainly belongs to the same species. A third one (A 61-2301), however, has a deeper diaphysis and proximal epiphysis and larger distal dimensions. I refer to it as E. aff. melkiensis. Same differences appear (…)

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Afrique du Nord, Guyotville (AÃ¯n Benian)

Friday 13 March 2020 by Véra Eisenmann

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Afrique du Nord, Equus algericus

Friday 13 March 2020 by Véra Eisenmann

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Tali, comparaative morphology and diagnostic value

Friday 13 March 2020 by Véra Eisenmann

Talus, System of measurements Fossil tali are often well preserved and one would hope them to be very valuable for species determination. Unfortunately it is not quite the case. Ratio diagrams in Fig.1 show that average tali of all extant species are very much alike when compared to E. (…)

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Allobroges, E. algericus

Thursday 16 January 2020 by Véra Eisenmann

In 1984 Bagtache et al. described two new species from the Algerian Aterian Site â€˜les Allobroges’ (or Gisement des Phacochères de la Cité Melki). In this note I will consider the caballine species - E. algericus. The type lower cheek teeth (Allo 61-803) is a right second molar. Allo 61-1551 (…)

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Lower premolars or molars? How to tell them apart?

Wednesday 15 January 2020 by Véra Eisenmann

A lower P2 is not hard to distinguish from a lower M3 (Fig.1). Actually these differences are caricatures of differences between other lower premolars and molars. About seventy years ago Gromova noted them: develoment of the hypostylid (short, wide and flattened on premolars, elongated and (…)

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