All posts tagged with Fayum

Meet Aegyptopithecus

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At this station are casts of Aegyptopithecus zeuxis. This species comes from the Oligocene, approximately 30 million years ago. It is from the Fayum fossil b...

Quote: Osborn on the Fayum beds

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Another passage from Henry Fairfield Osborn, “Hunting the ancestral elephant in the Fayûm desert”:

Quote: Osborn on the reception of bug-hunters

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More from Henry Fairfield Osborn, “Hunting the ancestral elephant in the Fayûm desert”:

Quote: Osborn on biogeography

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Henry Fairfield Osborn, “Hunting the ancestral elephant in the Fayûm desert”: