Extensive Diversity and Disparity of the Early Miocene Platanistoids (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Southeastern Pacific (Chilcatay Formation, Peru) [PDF]
Life, 2020 Several aspects of the fascinating evolutionary history of toothed and baleen whales (Cetacea) are still to be clarified due to the fragmentation and discontinuity (in space and time) of the fossil record.
Giovanni Bianucci +3 more
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The antiquity of the Rhine River: stratigraphic coverage of the dinotheriensande (eppelsheim formation) of the Mainz Basin (Germany). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: Mammalian fossils from the Eppelsheim Formation (Dinotheriensande) have been a benchmark for Neogene vertebrate palaeontology since 200 years.
Madelaine Böhme +3 more
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A new large squalodelphinid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from Peru sheds light on the Early Miocene platanistoid disparity and ecology [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 The South Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) is the only extant survivor of the large clade Platanistoidea, having a well-diversified fossil record from the Late Oligocene to the Middle Miocene.
Giovanni Bianucci +6 more
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The early Miocene balaenid Morenocetus parvus from Patagonia (Argentina) and the evolution of right whales [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Balaenidae (right and bowhead whales) are a key group in understanding baleen whale evolution, because they are the oldest surviving lineage of crown Mysticeti, with a fossil record that dates back ∼20 million years.
Mónica R. Buono +4 more
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A new volute, Ericusa ngayawang sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Volutidae), from the Miocene of South Australia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Ericusa ngayawang sp. nov. is described from shells preserved in the Middle Miocene Cadell Formation in the western Murray Basin of South Australia.
Adam M. Yates
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The role of fossils in the microfacies studies and recognizing the sequence boundaries of the Qom Formation: A case study in Ghasr-e-Bahram Section, northwest part of Siahkuh, south Garmsar [PDF]
Journal of Stratigraphy and Sedimentology Researches, 2023 Sequence stratigraphy is a branch of stratigraphy that can enable us to correlate deposits with considerable accuracy. This research aims to investigate the role of fossils in the recognition of system tracts and sequence boundaries along succession ...
Jahanbakhash Daneshian +1 more
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?Amphictis (Carnivora, Ailuridae) from the Belgrade Formation of North Carolina, USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Miocene terrestrial mammals are poorly known from the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Fossils of the Order Carnivora from this time and region are especially rare.
Jon Baskin +4 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Xuande Atoll is an isolated carbonate platform that has developed since the early Miocene. This study conducted high-resolution seismic surveys and shallow drilling to understand its internal structure and development.
Y. Liu +16 more
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Acta Palaeobotanica, 2021 The early and middle Miocene in Turkey was characterised by a warm climate and a diversified and rich vegetation. Many fossil angiosperm genera have been identified from this period.
Ünal Akkemik
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Geologica Acta, 2022 Here we describe a new elasmobranch assemblage consisting of isolated dental material from the Aquitanian near-shore marine deposits of the Shuwayr and Warak formations at Sharbithat, in eastern Sultanate of Oman. The faunal composition clearly indicates
Sylvain Adnet, Vincent Charpentier
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