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HAL Id: halshs-00158078 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00158078 Submitted on 27 Jun 2007 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. The hipparion from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco, and a revision of the relationships of Pliocene and Pleistocene African hipparions Vera Eisenmann, Denis Geraads To cite this version: Vera Eisenmann, Denis Geraads. The hipparion from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco, and a revision of the relationships of Pliocene and Pleistocene African hipparions. Paleontologia Africana, 2007, 42, pp.51-98. <halshs-00158078>

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HAL Id: halshs-00158078https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00158078

Submitted on 27 Jun 2007

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The hipparion from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam,Morocco, and a revision of the relationships of Pliocene

and Pleistocene African hipparionsVera Eisenmann, Denis Geraads

To cite this version:Vera Eisenmann, Denis Geraads. The hipparion from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam, Morocco,and a revision of the relationships of Pliocene and Pleistocene African hipparions. PaleontologiaAfricana, 2007, 42, pp.51-98. <halshs-00158078>

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