A new late Pleistocene fossil crocodile from Sudan reveals hidden diversity of Crocodylus in Africa [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWhile Crocodylus fossils are common in late Cenozoic deposits of Africa, there is a lack of knowledge about species diversity within the genus, especially after the Early Pleistocene. Here we report on a complete skull of a new fossil Crocodylus from the
Khalafallah Salih +3 more
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A tanged point and two blade technologies from Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland [PDF]
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2019 We describe a tanged point and a blade technology from Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay, Scotland that provides further support to a Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene presence in Scotland prior to the establishment of the narrow blade Mesolithic ...
Inger Marie Berg-Hansen +2 more
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Macaca sylvanus Linnaeus 1758 from the Middle Pleistocene of Quecchia Quarry (Brescia, Northern Italy) [PDF]
, 2016 During the Plio-Pleistocene the Barbary macaque, Macaca sylvanus Linnaeus, 1758 was widely distributed throughout Europe and North Africa (Szalay and Delson, 1979; Delson, 1980; Rook et al., 2001), and it became extinct in Europe during the Late ...
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Pollen analyses of Pleistocene hyaena coprolites from Montenegro and Serbia [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2007 The results of pollen analyses of hyaena coprolites from the Early Pleistocene cave of Trlica in northern Montenegro and the Late Pleistocene cave of Baranica in southeast Serbia are described.
Argant Jacqueline, Dimitrijević Vesna
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2013 New and detailed taphonomic and stratigraphical analyses have been carried out at the early Late Pleistocene site of “La Grave”, nearby Avetrana (Taranto, Southern Italy). These, together with population analyses of the principal species represented (Bos
LUCA PANDOLFI +2 more
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Lacustrine mollusc radiations in the Lake Malawi Basin : experiments in a natural laboratory for evolution [PDF]
, 2012 In terminal Pliocene-early Pleistocene times, part of the Malawi Basin was occupied by paleo-lake Chiwondo. Molluscan biostratigraphy situates this freshwater lake either in the East African wet phase between 2.7-2.4 Ma or that of 2.0-1.8 Ma.
Gautier, Achilles, Van Damme, Dirk
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A revised chronostratigraphic framework for International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 355 sites in Laxmi Basin, eastern Arabian Sea [PDF]
, 2020 International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 355 drilled Sites U1456 and U1457 in Laxmi Basin (eastern Arabian Sea) to document the impact of the South Asian monsoon on weathering and erosion of the Himalaya.
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Journal of Bioresource Management, 2020 Gomphotheres existed in the Siwaliks from the middle Miocene (14.2Ma) to the middle Pleistocene (0.8Ma) and became extinct later on. In this paper, we tried to discuss the reasons of such extinction of gomphotheres in the lower Pleistocene time span by ...
Muhammad Ameen +4 more
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Pleistocene reefs of the Egyptian Red Sea: environmental change and community persistence [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 The fossil record of Red Sea fringing reefs provides an opportunity to study the history of coral-reef survival and recovery in the context of extreme environmental change.
Lorraine R. Casazza
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Pleistocene horses (genus Equus) in the central Balkans [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2003 A review of the fossil horses of the genus Equus from the central Balkans, a mountainous area comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is presented in this paper. The time period covered by the finds is from the late Early to and including the Late Pleistocene,
Forsten Ann, Dimitrijević Vesna M.
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