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Some other paleontological highlights are;
* 750-650 year old Stromatolites,
* Pteridinium specimens from the Nama Group,
* the earliest known shell-bearing organism, Cloudina,
* a basal Archosaur (Family Erythrosuchidae) from the Omingonde Formation. This animal lived about 230 million years ago and the group it represents eventually gave rise to the dinosaurs, crocodiles and birds,
* various mammal like reptilian Karoo fossils, also from the Omingonde Formation, that are morphologically transitional forms between reptiles and mammals,
* more recent fossils include the Arrisdrift collection from southern Namibia with an age of 17-19,5 million years. Found on the northern bank of the Orange River, fossils collected from this site include a big type of dassie, crocodiles, small rodents, rhinoceros, ancient species of elephant, giraffe ancestors and fish,
* from the Namib Desert, fossilised eggshells of extinct ostrich and plenty of fossilised animal burrows,
* and the lower jaw of Otavipithicus namibiensis, the first fossil ape ever found in the Southern Hemisphere with an age of about 13 million years.
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