unreferenced date April 2012 The Djurab Desert is a desert in Northern Chad . Many fossils have been in the desert, including a hominid that was nicknamed Toumai . It was later ruled to be a small ape . Kossom Bougoudi and Toros Menalla are some of the most bountiful fossil bearing areas in the desert. Deserts Category Deserts of Africa Category Geography of Chad chad geo stub ... more details
Daza may refer to Dazaga language , a language spoken in the Djurab desert region of Chad by the Daza people Dazawa language , an Afro Asiatic language spoken in a few villages of Darazo LGA, Bauchi State, Nigeria. dab ... more details
Taxobox name Vulpes riffautae ref name De2007 cite journal author De Bonis, L. coauthors Peign , S. Likius, A. MacKaye, H.T. Vignaud, P. Brunet, M. year 2007 title The oldest African fox Vulpes riffautae n. sp., Canidae, Carnivora recovered in late Miocene deposits of the Djurab desert, Chad journal Naturwissenschaften volume 94 issue 7 pages 575 580 url http www.springerlink.com index D873832U57615708.pdf accessdate 2008 05 06 doi 10.1007 s00114 007 0230 6 pmid 17361401 ref fossil range late Miocene regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Mammal ia ordo Carnivora familia Canidae genus Vulpes species V. riffautae binomial Vulpes riffautae binomial authority de Bonis et al., 2007 Vulpes riffautae is an extinct species of fox from the late Miocene of Chad approximately 7 ma . Fossils of V. riffautae potentially represent the earliest record of the dog Family biology family Canidae in the Old World . ref name De2007 V. riffautae was intermediate in size between the R ppell s Fox Vulpes rueppellii and Fennec Fox V. zerda . References reflist Category Prehistoric canines Category Prehistoric mammals of Africa Category Foxes Category Miocene mammals paleo carnivora stub ca Vulpes riffautae pl Vulpes riffautae pt Vulpes riffautae ... more details
File Michel Brunet.jpg thumb right Michel Brunet paleontologist Michel Brunet born on April 6, 1940 is a France French paleontologist and a professor at the Coll ge de France . In 2001 Brunet announced the discovery in Central Africa of the skull and jaw remains of a late Miocene hominid nicknamed Touma . These remains are believed to predate the earliest previously known hominid remains, Lucy Australopithecus Lucy , by over three million years. Brunet was born in 1940 in Vienne , in the region of Poitou . After having passed his first years in the countryside, at 8 he moved with his family to Versailles . He took a Ph.D. in paleontology at the Sorbonne and then became Professor of Vertebrate paleontology at the University of Poitiers , specializing in hoof ed mammal s. A turning point in Brunet s career was when he heard that paleoanthropologist David Pilbeam was searching for fossil ape s in Pakistan and the ancestors of the hominid s. This spurred Brunet to form with his colleague Emile Heintz a team with the idea of also searching for extinct apes across the border from Pakistan in Afghanistan . The expedition was unsuccessful, and no fossil apes were found. In the 1980s Brunet and Pilbeam matched together and moved to Africa . Their idea was to verify the theory of Yves Coppens that hominids had first rose in the savanna s of Eastern Africa. The two paleontologists idea was that the shores of Lake Chad were particularly indicated to work as a magnet for mammals, and maybe also hominids. In 1984 searching begun in Cameroon , but the nine field seasons spent there were discouraging, with no hominids found. A new opportunity presented itself to Brunet when the government of Chad gave him the permission to conduct researches in the Djurab Desert, that due the Chadian Civil War had long been closed to foreigners. Brunet promptly formed the French Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission Mission Pal oanthropologique Franco Tchadienne or MPFT a Franco Chadian scientific ... more details
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