The unexpected survival of an ancient lineage of anseriform birds into the Neogene of Australia: the youngest record of Presbyornithidae [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Presbyornithids were the dominant birds in Palaeogene lacustrine assemblages, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, but are thought to have disappeared worldwide by the mid-Eocene.
Vanesa L. De Pietri +4 more
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Polar Research, 2021 The Cretaceous “high-fire” period was a global event that reached almost all continental masses during that period in Earth’s history. The extensive wildfires directly affected plant communities.
Flaviana Jorge de Lima +10 more
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Lower–Middle Ordovician brachiopods from the Eastern Cordillera of Peru: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical significance [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2023 LowerâMiddle Ordovician brachiopods are well known from the Central Andean Basin of Argentina and Bolivia, but relatively little data comes from its northern prolongation in the Altiplano and the Eastern Cordillera of Peru.
Jorge Colmenar +2 more
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New Cretaceous lungish material from southern South America, Argentina [PDF]
Research & Knowledge, 2017 Dipnoi is a large group of sarcopterygians which ranges from the Early Devonian to the present. Traditionally, it was considered that their taxonomic diversity decreased at the end of Paleozoic.
P. Guillermina Giordano +2 more
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Fragmentation of South China from greater India during the Rodinia-Gondwana transition
Geology, 2020 Late Tonian to Cambrian sedimentary sequences in northwestern India and South China provide vital evidence for modeling their paleogeographic linkage, including their juxtaposition and subsequent separation during the transition from the Rodinia to the
Wei Wang +7 more
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Geology, 2020 Redlichiid trilobite and small shelly fossils indicate strong ties of the North China craton (NCC) to Gondwana during the early Cambrian, while recent discoveries of the characteristic fossils of Laurentia in Wuliuan shales in the eastern NCC imply its
Hanqing Zhao, Shihong Zhang, E. al.
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The first iguanian lizard from the Mesozoic of Africa [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 The fossil record shows that iguanian lizards were widely distributed during the Late Cretaceous. However, the biogeographic history and early evolution of one of its most diverse and peculiar clades (acrodontans) remain poorly known.
Sebastián Apesteguía +3 more
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Geochemical and Tectonic Setting of Trachyte rock withinAvromanCarbonite Formation, Zagros Suture Zone,Kurdistan Region/ Northeastern Iraq. [PDF]
Kirkuk Journal of Science, 2018 Trachyte extrusion rocks exposed as dyke cutting Avroman carbonate formation that is part of northwestern Zagros suture zone.Petrographical study combined with EMPA study reveals that these trachyte rock composed of essentially Plagioclase and ...
Sabah Ismail, Shleer Abdul-Qadir
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Detrital-zircon geochronology and provenance of the Ocloyic synorogenic clastic wedge, and Ordovician accretion of the Argentine Precordillera terrane [PDF]
, 2015 The Precordillera terrane in northwestern Argentina is interpreted to be anexotic (Laurentian) continental fragment that was accreted to western Gondwanaduring the Ordovician. One prominent manifestation of the subductionand collision process is a Middle?
Astini, Ricardo Alfredo +3 more
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Terr@ Plural, 2023 The Leptocoeliidae family (genera Anabaia, Australocoelia, Eocoelia, Leptocoelia, Leptocoelina and Pacificocoelia) has an important place in the global paleobiogeography, during the Silurian and Devonian.
Victor Rodrigues Ribeiro +1 more
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