A new early Pliocene murine rodent from the Iberian Peninsula and its biostratigraphic implications [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 In the last years, a murine identified as Paraethomys aff. abaigari has been repeatedly recognized in several early Pliocene localities of the Iberian Peninsula.
Pedro Piñero, Diego H. Verzi
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Estudios Geologicos, 1996 Se describen nuevos restos de sigmodontinos provenientes de la localidad Bajo San José (sudoeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina), de Edad Ensenadense (Pleistoceno temprano-medio).
U. F. J. Pardiñas, C. Deschamps
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 31, Issue 24, Page 6390-6406, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Pathogen‐mediated selection and sexual selection are important drivers of evolution. Both processes are known to target genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), a gene family encoding cell‐surface proteins that display pathogen peptides to the immune system.
Donald C. Dearborn +2 more
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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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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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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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Révision systématique des Hipparion sensu lato (Perissodactyla, Equidae) de l’Ancien Monde
Estudios Geologicos, 2005 La sistemática de Hipparion sensu lato del Antiguo Mundo se caracteriza por una multiplicación excesiva de especies relacionadas con este grupo y una marcada controversia sobre el status supraespecífico que trae consigo una confusión general de su ...
S. Zouhri, A. Bensalmia
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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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Les ruminantia (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) du miocene des bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan)
Estudios Geologicos, 2001 La revisión de los materiales descritos por Pilgrim (1908, 1911, 1912, Forster Cooper, 1915) junto al estudio de los hallazgos recientes realizados en el sinclinal de Dera Bugti (Sur de Paquistán) por Welcomme et al. (1997), nos permite reconocer en esta
L. Ginsburg, J. Morales, D. Soria
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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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