Ahmed A. Abed El-Aziz's research while affiliated with Egyptian Ministry of State For Environmental Affairs and other places

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Article
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Remingtonocetidae are Eocene archaeocetes that represent a unique experiment in cetacean evolution. They possess long narrow skulls, long necks, fused sacra, and robust hind limbs. Previously described remingtonocetids are known from middle Eocene Lutetian strata in Pakistan and India. Here we describe a new remingtonocetid, Rayanistes afer, n. gen...
Conference Paper
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Remingtonocetids are semiaquatic archaeocete cetaceans known for their elongated narrow skulls, long necks, and robust pelves and hind limbs. The family currently includes five genera (Attockicetus, Remingtonocetus, Dalanistes, Andrewsiphius, and Kutchicetus), which are known principally from the middle-to-late Lutetian Domanda Formation of Pakista...

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... Since then, the richness of cetacean fossils in the African (mainly Egypt) fossil record has substantially shaped our understanding of early whale evolution [14][15][16][17] . This has led to a greater understanding of the diversity, anatomy, behavior, and adaptations of archaeocete whales 4,5 . ...