Comment on “An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks” [PDF]
Science, 2021 Sibert and Rubin (Reports, 4 June 2021, p. 1105) report an early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks based on the loss of shark denticle diversity in two widely separated deep-sea sediment cores. We assert that the pattern observed is not a consequence of extinction but results from shifting species ranges induced by global current reorganization.
Gavin J. P. Naylor +4 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
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Yellowstone plume drives drainage reorganization in the early Miocene. [PDF]
Sci AdvThe rise of the Yellowstone plume coincided with a shift from orogenic collapse of the Cordillera to Basin and Range extension in the northern Rocky Mountains, yet its impact on regional uplift, sediment dispersal, and drainage patterns remains largely unexplored.
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Phylogenetically informative proteins from an Early Miocene rhinocerotid. [PDF]
NatureIn the past decade, ancient protein sequences have emerged as a valuable source of data for deep-time phylogenetic inference1-4. Still, even though ancient proteins have been reported from the Middle-Late Miocene5,6, the recovery of protein sequences providing subordinal-level phylogenetic insights does not exceed 3.7 million years ago (Pliocene)1 ...
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Volcanic contribution to emergence of Central Panama in the Early Miocene. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 AbstractFormation of the Panama Isthmus, that had global oceanographic and biotic effects in the Neogene, is generally associated with tectonic uplift during collision of the Panama volcanic arc with South America. However, new field, geochemical and geochronological data from the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal suggest that volcanism also contributed ...
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A mid-miocene age for the Slanci formation near Belgrade (Serbia), based on a record of the primitive antelope Eotragus cf. Clavatus from Višnjica [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2007 In a borhole at Veliko Selo near Belgrade in the Miocene lacustrine sediments Slanci, which are locally known as the Slanačka Serija, a mammal tooth was found. The age of these deposits is under discussion.
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Middle Miocene otoliths of freshwater fishes from the Vračević Lake (Serbian Lake System) [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2021 The Serbian Lake System (SLS) is a key area for early to middle Miocene freshwater environments in southeastern Europe. Here, we describe a rich fossil association of freshwater fish otoliths of late Badenian to early Sarmatian (Serravallian, MN 7+8 zone)
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Antarctic ice sheet and oceanographic response to eccentricity forcing during the early Miocene [PDF]
, 2011 Stable isotope records of benthic foraminifera from ODP Site 1264 in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean are presented which resolve the latest Oligocene to early Miocene (~24–19 Ma) climate changes at high temporal resolution (<3 kyr).
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Early Miocene micromammal fossils from Gucheng in Linxia, Gansu, China [PDF]
古脊椎动物学报 (中英文版)The micromammal fossils collected from the Shangzhuang Formation of the Linxia Basin, Gansu, are described here. The assemblage consists of 16 species of 13 genera belonging to 7 families, including one new species and one taxon previously unknown from ...
WANG Ban-Yue, QIU Zhu-Ding, LI Lu
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021 The Bengal Basin preserves the erosional signals of coupled tectonic‐climatic change during late Cenozoic development of the Himalayan orogen, yet regional correlation and interpretation of these signals remains incomplete.
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