Jean Sudre

TL;DR: The discovery of six hominid specimens from Chad, central Africa, 2,500 km from the East African Rift Valley, suggest that the earliest members of the hominids clade were more widely distributed than has been thought, and that the divergence between the human and chimpanzee lineages was earlier than indicated by most molecular studies.

TL;DR: New data support the idea that Algeripithecus and its sister genus Azibius are the earliest offshoots of an Afro–Arabian strepsirhine clade that embraces extant toothcombed primates and their fossil relatives and strongly challenge the role of Africa as the ancestral homeland for anthropoids.

TL;DR: The discovery of a new genus in the late Palaeocene (Thanetian) epoch of Morocco (Ouled Abdoun Basin), about 7 million years older than Numidotherium, providing new evidence for a very early radiation of modern orders of placentals.

TL;DR: A cladistic study of 129 features of Phosphatherium escuilliei within an extended systematic framework, including most lophodont ungulate lineages and their presumed condylarth relatives provides new insight into the intra-ordinal and supra-ordinals phylogenetic relationships of the Proboscidea.