Overview
- Provides coverage of new and previous fossil collections from the Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi Emirate
- Provides enhanced geochronological and paleoenvironmental contexts for the Baynunah fauna
- Enriches the understanding of life in the Arabian Miocene, and its connections to Africa and Eurasia
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Faysal Bibi is a Senior Scientist at the Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, in Berlin.
Brian Kraatz is an Associate Professor of Anatomy at Western University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific.
Mark Jonathan Beech is Head of Archaeology: Al Dhafra & Abu Dhabi in the Historic Environment Department at the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Andrew Hill was J. Clayton Stephenson Professor of Anthropology, Curator and Head of the Division of Anthropology, and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology in the Peabody Museum at Yale University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sands of Time
Book Subtitle: Ancient Life in the Late Miocene of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Editors: Faysal Bibi, Brian Kraatz, Mark J. Beech, Andrew Hill
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83883-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83882-9Published: 08 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83885-0Published: 09 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83883-6Published: 07 June 2022
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 359
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 115 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Vertebrates, Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Anthropology