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A new late Miocene elasmotheriine rhinoceros from Morocco [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 We describe here the first definite representative of the subfamily Elasmotheriinae in North Africa. It comes from the upper Miocene site of Skoura near Ouarzazate, on the southern slope of the Central High Atlas in Morocco.
DENIS GERAADS, SAMIR ZOUHRI
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Revista Espinhaço, 2023 O Brasil se destaca por possuir a maior diversidade de mamíferos Neotropicais. Este estudo realizou uma atualização da lista de espécies de pequenos mamíferos (Didelphimorphia, Chiroptera e Rodentia) registradas na Cadeia do Espinhaço para ampliar e ...
Amanaíra Miranda Norões +3 more
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First phylogenetic analysis of the Miocene armadillo Vetelia reveals novel affinities with Tolypeutinae [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 Vetelia is a Miocene genus of armadillos from Argentina and Chile, traditionally included within the subfamily Euphractinae (Chlamyphoridae, Cingulata, Xenarthra).
Daniel Barasoain +5 more
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Systematic revision of a Miocene sperm whale from Patagonia, Argentina, and the phylogenetic signal of tympano-periotic bones in Physeteroidea [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 Sperm whales (Physeteroidea) include today only two genera of morphologically disparate odontocetes: the largest toothed whale known (Physeter macrocephalus) and small sized forms (Kogia spp.).
Florencia Paolucci +3 more
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Animals, 2022 “The Dahomey Gap” is a human-derived mostly savannah region that separates the Guineo-Congolian rainforest block into two major units: the Upper Guinean and the Lower Guinean Forest blocks.
Gabriel Hoinsoudé Segniagbeto +7 more
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Formation of fauna of Mammals of the Samara region in Pleistocene
Юг России: экология, развитие, 2015 Mammalia Fauna Evolution of Samara Region was begun at the Middle Pliocene. Most of founded fossil Mammalia are steppen forms (67%). Forest forms (25%) appeared later.
E. Yu. Rigina, A. V. Vinogradov
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The paleoecology of the Late Miocene mammals from the Optima Local Fauna of Oklahoma, USA [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 The Optima Local Fauna represents an important glimpse into the ecological transition between savannah and grassland during the late Miocene (Hemphillian) of what is now the southcentral Great Plains of North America.
JOSEPH A. FREDERICKSON +6 more
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Ungulates of the middle Miocene Monarch Mill Formation, Churchill County, Nevada, USA [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 A middle Miocene, early Barstovian land mammal age vertebrate assemblage, the Eastgate local fauna (LF), is known in the basal-most part of the Monarch Mill Formation.
KENT S. SMITH +2 more
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New Eocene South American native ungulates from the Quebrada de los Colorados Formation at Los Cardones National Park, Argentina [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 In the last few years, the Quebrada de Los Colorados Formation has become an important middle Eocene fossiliferous unit in Northwestern Argentina. In this unit, the South American native ungulates were until now only represented by the order Notoungulata,
Mercedes Fernández +6 more
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Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2023 Eighty-five mammal species are classified worldwide as Extinct on the IUCN Red List. In this study, we aimed to assess to which Orders these species belong, when they became extinct and the factors that led to their extinction.
Matheus C. Drago, Davor Vrcibradic
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