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Fossil Ruminants (Mammalia) from the Manonga Valley, Tanzania

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Book cover Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania

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An account is given of the fossil Giraffidae and of the much more abundant fossil Bovidae collected in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania, by the Wembere-Manonga Paleontological Expedition in 1990 and 1992. The geology of the area and the history of its study are given in other chapters of this book. Several references are made to material collected by C. Grace in 1929 at Tinde and now in the Natural History Museum, London (Stockley, 1930).

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Gentry, A.W. (1997). Fossil Ruminants (Mammalia) from the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In: Harrison, T. (eds) Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Topics in Geobiology, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2683-1_5

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