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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
The oldest fossil hippopotamus (Hippopotamus laloumena) of Madagascar (Belobaka, Mahajanga Province)
Comptes Rendus - Palevol, Volume 9, No. 4, Year 2010
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Description
The Upper Pleistocene site Belobaka XVII (about 20,000 years) has yielded some Hippopotami remains included in a very hard breccia. Among this material two lower premolars, a juvenile calcaneus, two juvenile metatarsals and a first abaxial phalange have been cleaned and can be studied. They belong to Hippopotamus laloumena Faure and Guérin, 1990, allowed us to know for the first time the P/2 and P/3 of that species and confirm its validity. Belobaka is then the third Malagasyan site where H. laloumena has been found, and the first which yielded Pleistocene hippopotami remains. © 2010 Académie des sciences.
Authors & Co-Authors
Faure, Martine
France, Lyon
Université Lumière Lyon 2
Guérin, Claude
France, Villeurbanne
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Genty, Dominique
France, Versailles
Université de Versailles Saint-quentin-en-yvelines
Gommery, Dominique
France, Paris
Dynamique de L'évolution Humaine Cnrs Upr 2147
Ramanivosoa, Beby
Madagascar, Majunga
Université de Mahajanga
Statistics
Citations: 20
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.crpv.2010.04.002
ISSN:
16310683
Study Locations
Madagascar