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The Biotic Environments of the Late Miocene Hominoids

2013
The habitat of the Middle and Late Miocene hominoids from western Europe, like Dryopithecus, was characterized by the prevalence of subtropical conditions. As a consequence, those environments were mainly dominated by fruit eaters and browsers, including a large variety of suids, cervids, rhinos, chalicotheres, and proboscideans.
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Late Miocene “washhouse” climate in Europe

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008
Abstract We present two eight-million year long proxy records of precipitation for Southwest and Central Europe, covering the middle to late Miocene (5.3–13 Ma) at a temporal resolution of about 60 kyr and 150 kyr, respectively. The estimates of precipitation are based on the ecophysiological structure of herpetological assemblages (amphibians and ...
Madelaine Böhme, August Ilg, Michael Winklhofer   +2 more
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The late Miocene Panama isthmian strait

Geology, 1996
Miocene sediments of the Caribbean Gatun and Chagres formations, Panama Canal basin, were deposited within an archipelagic strait that connected Caribbean and Pacific waters. Shallow-water (∼ 25 m) benthic foraminifera of the Gatun Formation have a strong Caribbean affinity, indicating that a significant interoceanic, biogeographic barrier had formed ...
Laurel S. Collins, Anthony G. Coates, William A. Berggren, Marie-Pierre Aubry, Jijun Zhang   +4 more
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Miocene to Late Pleistocene proboscideans of Croatia

Quaternary International, 2012
A total of 96 sites of Neogene and Pleistocene proboscidean taxa on the territory of Croatia are listed and mapped. The studied material is mainly stored at the Institute for Quaternary Paleontology and Geology of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, and the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb.
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First hominoid from the Late Miocene of Niger

2008
Since the discovery of Orrorin tugenensis in the Late Miocene Lukeino Formation, Tugen Hills, Kenya, it is generally admitted that the origin of bipedal hominids occurred earlier than 6 Myr ago and that the adaptation to bipedal stance and locomotion initially occurred in a forested or well-wooded setting.
Pickford, M., Senut, B., Morales, J., Braga, José   +3 more
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Parathethyan ostracod immigrants in Italy durinf Late Miocene

2004
In this paper the ostracod assemblages recovered from several brackish Late Miocene Italian deposits have been analysed from a palaeobiogeographical perspective. During late Tortonian-early Messinian it is possible to recognize in Italy rich ostracod assemblages characterized by a wide contingent of taxa with central European or Mediterranean affinity,
GLIOZZI, Elsa, CECI M. E, GROSSI, FRANCESCO, LIGIOS, SILVIA   +3 more
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Late Miocene Hominid from Fort Ternan, Kenya

Nature, 1969
Faunal and temporal relationships of the early hominid sites at Fort Ternan and in North India further support the morphological evidence that “Kenyapithecus” from Fort Ternan ought to continue in the synonymy of Ramapithecus.
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Late Miocene hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia

Nature, 2001
Molecular studies suggest that the lineages leading to humans and chimpanzees diverged approximately 6.5-5.5 million years (Myr) ago, in the Late Miocene. Hominid fossils from this interval, however, are fragmentary and of uncertain phylogenetic status, age, or both.
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Late Miocene

2023
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Apes, hominins and environment in the late Miocene

2016
I am attempting several things in this chapter. In the first place we must consider the environments associated with the fossil apes described in the previous chapter, although for some of them there is little information. I am then going to go straight on to investigate both the morphology and the environment of a group of hominids that have been ...
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