Pliocene reversal of late Neogene aridification. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 Significance The warm climates of the Pliocene epoch are considered our best analog for a future anthropogenic greenhouse world. However, understanding of the nature of Pliocene climate variability and change on land is currently limited by the poor age control of most existing terrestrial climate archives.
Sniderman JM +6 more
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Evolutionary Transition in the Late Neogene Planktonic Foraminiferal Genus Truncorotalia [PDF]
iScience, 2018 Summary: The fossil record provides empirical patterns of morphological change through time and is central to the study of the tempo and mode of evolution.
Russell D.C. Bicknell +5 more
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Accelerated mafic weathering in Southeast Asia linked to late Neogene cooling. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2023 Arc-continent collision in Southeast Asia during the Neogene may have driven global cooling through chemical weathering of freshly exposed ophiolites resulting in atmospheric CO2 removal.
Bayon G +7 more
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Plant-insect interactions patterns in three European paleoforests of the late-Neogene-early-Quaternary. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Plants and insects are constantly interacting in complex ways through forest communities since hundreds of millions of years. Those interactions are often related to variations in the climate.
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Late Neogene evolution of modern deep-dwelling plankton [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2022 The fossil record of marine microplankton provides insights into the evolutionary drivers which led to the origin of modern deep-water plankton, one of the largest components of ocean biomass. We use global abundance and biogeographic data, combined with
F. Boscolo-Galazzo +8 more
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Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2018 While the diversity of ‘southern seals’, or Monachinae, in the North Atlantic realm is currently limited to the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, their diversity was much higher during the late Miocene and Pliocene.
Dewaele L +3 more
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Facies analysis, biostratigraphy, and provenance of the late Neogene Seulimeum Formation, Northwest Aceh basin, Sumatra (Indonesia) [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 A sedimentological, biostratigraphic, and petrographical investigation was conducted on exposed sedimentary rocks in the Seulimeum Formation in the Northwest Aceh Basin, Sumatra. Sedimentary facies analysis suggests a deep-marine depositional environment
Gartika Setiya Nugraha +6 more
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Evolution of East Asia's Arcto-Tertiary relict Euptelea (Eupteleaceae) shaped by Late Neogene vicariance and Quaternary climate change. [PDF]
BMC Evol Biol, 2016 BackgroundThe evolutionary origin and historical demography of extant Arcto-Tertiary forest species in East Asia is still poorly understood. Here, we reconstructed the evolutionary and population demographic history of the two extant Euptelea species in ...
Cao YN +4 more
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Late Neogene leaf assemblage from Bełchatów Lignite Mine (central Poland)
Acta Palaeobotanica, 2014 Leaf macroremains collected in the Bełchatów Lignite Mine (central Poland) were investigated. The fossil assemblage consists of leaves of Acer, Betula, Carpinus, Dicotylophyllum, Fagus, ?Magnolia, “Parrotia”, Pinus, Quercus, and Zelkova.
Worobiec Grzegorz
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 This study compares, for the first time, the mineralogy and geochemistry of two residual-clay deposits in NW Sardinia (Nurra district) that formed at different times in tropical and sub-tropical climates.
Paola Mameli +3 more
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