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Abdullah Gohar is an Egyptian paleontologist,[1] currently pursuing his PhD at the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP), Mansoura University, Egypt.[2]

Career

In August 2021, Gohar and his colleagues published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.[3] about a new species of ancient whale named Phiomicetus anubis, which lived about 43 million years ago during the middle Eocene epoch in Egypt. The fossil specimen was discovered in the Fayum Depression, a paleontological hotspot in Egypt.[4]

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References

  1. ^ Leeming, Jack (2022-01-24). "The ancient whale from my Egyptian home town". Nature. 601 (7894): 664. Bibcode:2022Natur.601..664L. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00164-w. PMID 35075304. S2CID 246278281.
  2. ^ https://muvp.mans.edu.eg/index.php/people/administration/335-abdullah-gohar
  3. ^ Gohar, Abdullah S.; Antar, Mohammed S.; Boessenecker, Robert W.; Sabry, Dalia A.; El-Sayed, Sanaa; Seiffert, Erik R.; Zalmout, Iyad S.; Sallam, Hesham M. (2021-08-25). "A new protocetid whale offers clues to biogeography and feeding ecology in early cetacean evolution". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288 (1957): 20211368. doi:10.1098/rspb.2021.1368. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 8385364. PMID 34428967.
  4. ^ "New species of ancient four-legged whale discovered in Egypt". BBC News. 2021-08-26. Retrieved 2023-06-09.