scholarly journals Carnivora from the Baynunah Formation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Grohe
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Abu Dhabi Emirate ◽  
Postcranial Remains ◽  
New Material

I describe new specimens of carnivoran mammals from the continental late Miocene Baynunah Formation, exposed in the western coastal region of Abu Dhabi Emirate. New material collected between 2002 and 2014 includes dental specimens of the mustelid Plesiogulo sp. and a large-sized hyaenid, postcranial remains and an upper canine of a large- sized machairodontine felid, postcrania and a tooth of a medium-sized felid, and postcrania of a medium-sized mustelid. The latter two are new taxonomic records for the Baynunah Formation. With a minimum of six species, the carnivoran assemblage from the Baynunah Formation is the richest known from the Miocene of the Arabian Peninsula.

scholarly journals Rodents from the Baynunah Formation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Kraatz
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Intermediate Species ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Fossil Mammals ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Abu Dhabi Emirate

The Baynunah Formation of western Abu Dhabi Emirate includes the only record of late Miocene fossil mammals from the Arabian Peninsula. This study reports on new fossil rodents, recording three species previously unknown from the fauna. The first fossil squirrel from the Baynunah Formation is described here, although the limited material makes a detailed taxonomic assessment difficult. An additional indeterminate dendromurine species is also identified. Additionally, a new genus and species of an exceedingly large fossil gerbil, [gen et sp nov], is described. This species exhibits several primitive traits relative to the co-occurring Abudhabia baynunensis, yet is more derived than closely related (yet older) Ameuromys grandis. [gen et sp nov] most likely represents an intermediate species in the Ameuromys grandis — Abudhabia baynunensis group. The rodent fauna also supports previous biochronological estimates for the Baynunah Formation (8 to 6 Ma). The absence of leporids among the Baynunah micromammals suggests the fauna is older than 7 Ma. Lastly, although the Baynunah fauna shows a strong African biogeographic signal overall, the rodents represent a portion of the fauna with significant relationships with Asia.

scholarly journals Magnetostratigraphy of the Baynunah Formation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Peppe ◽  
David A.D. Evans ◽  
Mark Beech ◽  
Andrew Hill ◽  
Faysal Bibi
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Magnetic Polarity ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Fluvial System ◽  
First Order ◽  
Abu Dhabi Emirate ◽  
Geomagnetic Polarity ◽  
Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale ◽  
Late Tortonian

The Baynunah Formation in the Al Gharbia region of Abu Dhabi Emirate was deposited by a major fluvial system and preserves the only known late Miocene terrestrial fossils in the Arabian Peninsula. We analyzed paleomagnetic samples from six sections (Jebel Barakah, Shuwaihat 2, Hamra 5, Mleisa 1, Mleisa 2, and Kihal 2) to develop a polarity stratigraphy for the Baynunah Formation. Based on these analyses, we documented a magnetic polarity stratigraphy, which, in combination with lithostratigraphy, allows us to propose a correlation of these six sections and their fossil localities. We show that first-order facies variations in the Baynunah Formation are diachronous. Confident correlations with the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale during the late Miocene cannot be determined; however, correlations based on the local polarity stratigraphy and biostratigraphy suggests that the Baynunah Formation was deposited over a duration of less than 750 kyr between ~7.7 and ~7.0 Ma during the late Tortonian and early Messinian. These results suggest that the fossil sites occurring throughout the lower part of the Baynunah unit and the fossil trackway sites found in the upper part of the formation are likely no more than a few hundred thousand years apart and could have been generated by the same taxa.

scholarly journals Birds from the Baynunah Formation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Louchart ◽  
Faysal Bibi ◽  
John R. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Abu Dhabi Emirate

The late Miocene Baynunah Formation in western Abu Dhabi Emirate (United Arab Emirates) has yielded new bird fossils, including both skeletal and eggshell remains that we describe here, together with a revision and summary of previous findings. A ratite pelvis is characterized by its larger size compared with extant ostriches and is assigned to Struthio cf. karatheodoris. Fossil eggshells belong to the ootaxon Diamantornis laini as well as to an aepyornithoid type. Diamantornis laini is previously recorded from contemporaneous sites in Africa, and aepyornithoid eggshells are widespread across Neogene sites in Eurasia and Africa. Neognath birds are represented by three taxa, a cormorant Phalacrocorax sp. (size of P. fuscicollis), a darter Anhinga cf. hadarensis, and a heron of the tribe Nycticoracini. The darter attests to a link with Africa, being tentatively referred to a fossil species known from East Africa. The Baynunah birds provide valuable information on the biogeographic origins of different components of the avifauna in the late Miocene, near the junction between the Palaearctic, Indomalayan and Afrotropical zoogeographical regions.

Educating Ms. Fatima

1970 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Tim Walters ◽  
Susan Swan ◽  
Ron Wolfe ◽  
John Whiteoak ◽  
Jack Barwind
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Free Trade Zones ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
K 12

The United Arab Emirates is a smallish Arabic/Islamic country about the size of Maine located at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though currently oil dependent, the country is moving rapidly from a petrocarbon to a people-based economy. As that economy modernizes and diversifies, the country’s underlying social ecology is being buffeted. The most significant of the winds of change that are blowing include a compulsory, free K-12 education system; an economy shifting from extractive to knowledge-based resources; and movement from the almost mythic Bedouin-inspired lifestyle to that of a sedentary highly urbanized society. Led by resource-rich Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the federal government has invested heavily in tourism, aviation, re-export commerce, free trade zones, and telecommunications. The Emirate of Dubai, in particular, also has invested billions of dirhams in high technology. The great dream is that educated and trained Emiratis will replace the thousands of foreign professionals now running the newly emerging technology and knowledge-driven economy.

scholarly journals Excavation & Conservation of Fossils from the Baynunah Formation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Fox
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Desert Environment ◽  
Sandy Desert ◽  
Fossil Remains ◽  
Past Life

The recovery, preparation, and conservation of fossil remains found in the late Miocene Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi, present special challenges. In this chapter, field experiences are covered, and solutions are proposed for some of the challenges for the recovery and conservation of fossils in this sandy desert environment. This chapter provides paleontologists and those concerned with Abu Dhabi’s fossil heritage, whether in the field or the laboratory, with suggestions for best practices in the collection, preparation, molding and casting, and long-term conservation of this evidence of past life.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Environmental Requirements for Sustainable Ready-Mix Concrete Production in Abu Dhabi Emirate

2014 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 333-339
Author(s):  
Ghanim Kashwani ◽  
Abeer Sajwani ◽  
Muhammad Al Ashram ◽  
Rahma Al Yaaqoubi
Keyword(s):  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Concrete Production ◽  
Abu Dhabi Emirate ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Ready Mix Concrete

scholarly journals Hydrogeologic framework and simulation of predevelopment groundwater flow, eastern Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack R. Eggleston ◽  
Thomas J. Mack ◽  
Jeffrey L. Imes ◽  
Wade Kress ◽  
Dennis W. Woodward ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Flow ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Abu Dhabi Emirate ◽  
Hydrogeologic Framework

Background and Context

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-42
Author(s):  
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Coup Attempt

This chapter provides historical context to the tensions between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Abu Dhabi from the mid-nineteenth century up until 2011. The chapter covers the emergence of Qatar and the disruptive impact on all the smaller Gulf States, including the UAE, of Saudi expansionary designs on the Arabian Peninsula. Beginning in the 1990s, a new generation of Qatari leaders began to develop political and economic policies that carved a more autonomous role for Qatar in regional affairs. In February 1996, the same four states that would blockade Qatar in 2017 were linked to an abortive coup attempt against the Emir of Qatar, and the chapter ends by examining the aftermath of the coup attempt and the trajectory of Saudi pressure on Qatar in the 2000s.

scholarly journals Sero-Prevalence and Epidemiology of Brucellosis in Camels, Sheep and Goats in Abu Dhabi Emirate

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maymona A Mohammed ◽  
Mohamed T Shigidy ◽  
Abdulwahab Y Al juboori
Keyword(s):  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Sheep And Goats ◽  
Abu Dhabi Emirate
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