ABSTRACT
Late Oligocene and Early Miocene fossil ruminants from Napak and Moroto in Uganda and the Zinda Pir sequence in Pakistan comprise at least eight taxa, including an indeterminate lophiomerycid, ?Gelocus gajensis, Walangania africanus, Bugtimeryx pilgrimi, an indeterminate large cervoid, Progiraffa exigua, Palaeohypsodontus zinensis, and an unnamed bovid. The fossils range in age between 25 and 16 million years old and together with species of tragulids provide evidence for the existence of diverse latest Oligocene and earliest Miocene ruminant faunas in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. The fossils from Pakistan may also document the first appearance and subsequent radiation of giraffes and bovids, two groups that dominate later Neogene and modern herbivore faunas.
John C. Barry. Peabody Museum and Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA
Susanne Cote. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 USA
Laura MacLatchy. Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 550 East University Ave.,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 USA
Everett H. Lindsay. Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Robert Kityo. Zoology Department, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
A. Rahim Rajpar. Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad, Pakistan
KEY WORDS: Ruminants; Miocene, Early; Oligocene; Pakistan; East Africa
PE Article Number: 8.1.22A
Copyright: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology May 2005.
Submission: 15 November 2004. Acceptance: 5 March 2005
