Peer J Blog
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your co-authors?
My name is Shorouq Al- Ashqar. I’m a member of Sallam-Lab team and the lab manager of MUVP. We are a team of researchers with a shared passion for vertebrate fossils. Among my co-authors is Professor Erik R.

Seiffert, a mentor, whose work on Paleogene mammals continues to resonate through his many collaborators, producing original research; Dr. Dorien de Vries, a researcher at Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre, University of Salford; Dr. Sanaa El-Sayed, the vice director of MUVP and a PhD student at the University of Michigan; Dr. Mohamed S. Antar, National Focal Point for Natural Heritage and Director General for Central Parks of Egypt; and Professor Hesham Sallam, the senior author. Professor Sallam founded MUVP and initiated the first Egyptian school for studying vertebrate paleontology. Over the past dozen years, Sallam-Lab has explored, discovered, and documented a lot of Egyptian fossils.