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Any remains, trace, or imprint of a plant or animal that has been preserved in the Earth's crust since some past geologic or prehistoric time. (Source: BJGEO)

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Teller JT, Rybak M, Rybak A, Lancaster N, Rutter N, Ward JD 1988. Diatoms and other fossil remains in calcareous lacustrine sediments of the northern Namib Sand Sea, South West Africa/Namibia. Geomorphological studies in Southern Africa : proceedings of the Symposium on the Geomorphology of Southern Africa, 8-11 April, 1988 159-174

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Diatoms and other fossil remains in calcareous lacustrine sediments of the northern Namib Sand Sea_1988.pdf	9.29 MB

Website link:http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1693325

Brain CK 1969. The contribution of Namib Desert Hottentots to an understanding of Australopithecine bone accumulations. Scientific Papers of the Namib Desert Research Station 39 13-22

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The contribution of Namib Desert Hottentots.pdf	1.29 MB

Martin H 1953. Notes on the Dwyka Succession and on some Pre-Dwyka Valleys in South West Africa. South Africa Journal of Geology 56 37-41

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Notes on the Dwyka Succession and on some Pre_Dwyka Valleys in South West Africa.pdf	443.67 KB

Hopwood AT, Lang H 1929. New and little-known mammals from the Miocene of Africa. American Museum Novitates 334

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New and little_known mammals from the Miocene of Africa.pdf	775.98 KB

Pickford M, Mein P, Senut B 1994. Fossiliferous Neogene karst fillings in Angola, Botswana and Namibia. South Africa Journal of Science 90 (4) 227-230

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Fossiliferous Neogene karst fillings_Namibia.pdf	422.27 KB

Pickford M 2000. Neogene and Quaternary vertebrate biochronology of the Sperrgebiet and Otavi Mountainland, Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 12 411-419

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Neogene and Quaternary vertebrate biochronology of the Sperrgebiet and Otavi Mountainland.pdf	841.21 KB

Jacobs LL, Huffington RM Museum in the ground.

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Fossils Angolasarous.pdf	4.33 MB

Website link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8230511.stm

Hipondoka MHT, Jousse H, Kempf J, Busche DE 2006. Fossil evidence for perennial lake conditions during the Holocene at Etosha Pan, Namibia. South Africa Journal of Science 102 93-95

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Hipondoka et al 2006 Fossil evidence for perennial lake at Etosha by.pdf	514.33 KB

Pickford M, Senut B 2002. The Fossil Record of Namibia.

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The fossil record of namibia.pdf	15.86 MB

Miller RMcG, Seely MK 1976. Fluvio-marine deposits south-east of Swakopmund, South West Africa. Madoqua 9 (3) 23-28

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Fluvio_marine deposits south east of Swakopmund.pdf	409.91 KB

Hertel F 1995. Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in recent and fossil raptors. Auk 112 (4) 890 - 903

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Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in recent and fossil raptors_1995.pdf	1009.55 KB

Germs GJB 1973. A reinterpretation of Rangea schneiderhoehni and the discovery of a related new fossil from the Nama Group, South West Africa. Lethaia 6 (1) 1-9

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1973.tb00870.x/abstract

Conroy GC, Pickford M, Senut B, Mein P 1993. Diamonds in the desert: The discovery of Otavipithecus namibiensis. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 2 (2) 46-52

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/evan.1360020206/abstract

Senut B, Dauphin Y, Pickford M 1998. New avian remains from the Neogene of the Sperrgebiet (Namibia): Refinement of the avian biostratigraphy of Namib Desert aeolianites. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 327 (9) 639-644

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1251805099801190

Bamford MK 2000. Fossil woods of Karoo age deposits in South Africa and Namibia as an aid to biostratigraphical correlation. Journal of African Earth Sciences 31 (1) 119-132

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899536200000774

Pickford M, Moya Sola S, Köhler M 1997. Phylogenetic implications of the first African Middle Miocene hominoid frontal bone from Otavi, Namibia. Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 325 (6) 459-466

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1251805097811652

Germs GJB 1995. The Neoproterozoic of southwestern Africa, with emphasis on platform stratigraphy and paleontology. Precambrian Research 73 (1-4) 137-151

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0301926894000753

Dauphin Y, Pickford M, Senut B 1998. Diagenetic changes in the mineral and organic phases of fossil avian eggshells from Namibia. Applied Geochemistry 13 (2) 243-256

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292797000735

Gürich G 1933. Die Kuibis-Fossilien der Nama-Formation von Südwestafrika. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 15 (2-3) 137-154

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03041648

Wood RA, Grotzinger JP, Dickson JAD 2002. Proterozoic Modular Biomineralized Metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia. Science 296 (5577) 2383-2386

Website link:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/296/5577/2383.abstract

Vickers-Rich P, Yu Ivantsov A, Trusler PW, Narbonne GM, Hall M, Wilson SA, Greentree C, Fedonkin MA, Elliott DA, Hoffmann K-H, Schneider GIC 2013. Reconstructing Rangea: New Discoveries from the Ediacaran of Southern Namibia.. Journal of Paleontology 87 (1) 1-15

Website link:http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/content/87/1/1.abstract

Wilson JP, Grotzinger JP, Fischer WW, Hand KP, Jensen S, Knoll AH, Abelson J, Metz JM, McLoughlin N, Cohen PA, Tice MM 2012. Deep-Water incised valley deposits at the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary in southern Namibia contain abundant Treptichnus Pedum. Palaios 27 (4) 252-273

Website link:http://palaios.geoscienceworld.org/content/27/4/252.abstract

Jensen S, Saylor BZ, Gehling JG, Germs GJB 2000. Complex trace fossils from the terminal Proterozoic of Namibia. Geology 28 (2) 143-146

Website link:http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/28/2/143.abstract

Geyer G 2005. The Fish River Subgroup in Namibia: stratigraphy, depositional environments and the Proterozoic-Cambrian boundary problem revisited. Geological Magazine 142 (05) 465-498

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=351111

Crimes TP, Germs GJB 1982. Trace fossils from the Nama Group (Precambrian-Cambrian) of southwest Africa (Namibia). Journal of Paleontology 56 (4) 890-907

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1304708

Smith RMH, Mason TR 1998. Sedimentary environments and trace fossils of tertiary Oasis deposits in the Central Namib Desert, Namibia. Palaios 13 (6) 547-599

Website link:http://palaios.geoscienceworld.org/content/13/6/547.short

Gil-Romera G, Scott L, Marais E, Brook GA 2007. Late Holocene environmental change in the northwestern Namib Desert margin: New fossil pollen evidence from hyrax middens. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 249 (1 - 2) 1 - 17

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Late Holocene environmental change in the northwestern Namib Desert margin_Hyrax_2007.pdf	1.28 MB

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018207000211

Scott L, Vogel JC 2000. Evidence for environmental conditions during the last 20 000 years in Southern Africa from 13C in fossil hyrax dung. Global and Planetary Change 26 207 - 215

Website link:http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1486

Sauer EGF 1966. Fossil eggshell fragments of a giant struthious bird (Struthio oshanai, sp. Nov.) From Etosha Pan, South West Africa. Cimbebasia 14 1 - 51

Pickford M 2000. Fossil spider's webs from the Namib Desert and the antiquity of Seothyra (Araneae, Eresidae). Annales de Paléontologie 86 (3) 147-155

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0753-3969(00)80005-1

Darroch SAF, Boag TH, Racicot RA, Tweedt S, Mason SJ, Erwin DH, Laflamme M 2016. A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology In Press, Accepted Manuscript

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018216302383

McFarlane MJ, Eckardt FD 2006. Lake deception: A new Makgadikgadi Palaeolake. Botswana Notes and Records 38 195-201

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/41236000

Pickford M, Dauphin Y 1993. Diamantornis wardi nov gen, nov sp, giant extinct bird from Roilepel, lower Miocene, Namibia. Comptes Rendus De L Academie Des Sciences Serie Ii 316 (11) 1643 - 1650

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288271724_Diamantornis_wardi_nov_gen_nov_sp_giant_extinct_bird_from_Roilepel_Lower_Miocene_Namibia

Pickford M, Senut B, Dauphin Y 1995. Biostratigraphy of the Tsondab sandstone (Namibia) based on gigantic avian eggshells. Geobios 28 (1) 85 - 98

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016699595802053

Haughton SH 1930. On the occurrence of upper Cretaceous marine fossils near Bogenfels, S.W. Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 18 (4) 361-365

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00359193009518816#.VHQxtVItBHg

Scott L, Romera GG, Marais E, Brook GA 2018. Pollen in fossil hyrax dung from Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3 reveals past environments in Namibia. Quaternary International (464) 260-272

Website link:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.06.054

David JM, Simões MG, Anelli LE, Rohn R, Holzförster F 2010. Permian bivalve molluscs from the Gai-As Formation, northern Namibia: systematics, taphonomy and biostratigraphy. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

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Conti E, Mulder C, Lombardo F, Marletta A, Costa G 2019. The Present is the Key to the Past: How Living Fossils in Namibia Share Insights on the Insects of Tertiary European Forests. African Entomology (27) 185-200

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How Living Fossils in Namibia Share Insights on the Insects of Tertiary European Forests.pdf	5.12 MB

Mocke H 2014. Note on the fossil fauna and flora in tufa at Ongongo Springs, Damaraland, Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia (15) 134-141

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Mocke H 2018. The Fossil Collections from the Sperrgebiet at the National Earth Science Museum, Geological Survey of Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia (18) 124-131

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Mourer-Chauvire C, Pickford M, Senut B 2018. New data on stem group Galliformes, Charadriiformes, and Psittaciformes from the middle Eocene of Namibia.

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New data on stem group Galliformes.pdf	5.15 MB

Morales J, Pickford M, Valenciano Vaquero A 2016. Systematics of African Amphicyonidae, with descriptions of new material from Napak (Uganda) and Grillental (Namibia). Journal of Iberian Geology (42) 131-150

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de Broin L, de Lapparent F 2008. Miocene Chelonians from Western Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia (20) 107-145

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Miocene Chelonians from Western Namibia.pdf	4.92 MB

Quiralte V, Sánchez I, Morales J, Pickford M 2008. Tragulidae (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia) from the Early Miocene of the Sperrgebiet, Southern Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 20 387-396

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Tragulidae from the Early Miocene of the Sperrgebiet.pdf	890.13 KB

Mein P, Pickford M 2008. Early Miocene Lagomorpha from the Northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 20 227-233

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Early Miocene Lagomorpha from the Northern Sperrgebiet.pdf	998.08 KB

Pickford M, Senut B 2018. Afrohyrax namibensis (Hyracoidea, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Elisabethfeld and Fiskus, Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia (18) 93-112

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Afrohyrax namibensis from the Early Miocene of Elisabethfeld and Fiskus.pdf	2.25 MB

Mourer-Chauvire C 2008. Birds (Aves) from the Early Miocene of the Northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 20 147-167

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Birds from the Early Miocene of the Northern Sperrgebiet.pdf	2.61 MB

Senut B 2008. Macroscelididae from the lower Miocene of the Northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia.. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia (20) 185-225

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Macroscelididae from the lower Miocene of the Northern Sperrgebiet.pdf	3.85 MB

Pickford M 2008. Hyracoidea from the early Miocene of the Northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 20 315-325

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Hyracoidea from the early Miocene of the Northern Sperrgebiet.pdf	708.72 KB

Mein P, Pickford M 2008. Early Miocene insectivores from the Northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 20 169-183

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Early Miocene insectivores from the Northern Sperrgebiet.pdf	2.39 MB