Mangarara Formation: exhumed remnants of a middle Miocene, temperate carbonate, submarine channel-fan system on the eastern margin of Taranaki Basin, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2009 The middle Miocene Mangarara Formation is a thin (1–60 m), laterally discontinuous unit of moderately to highly calcareous (40–90%) facies of sandy to pure limestone, bioclastic sandstone, and conglomerate that crops out in a few valleys in North ...
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On Prophoca and Leptophoca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Miocene of the North Atlantic realm : redescription, phylogenetic affinities and paleobiogeographic implications [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Prophoca and Leptophoca represent the oldest known genera of phocine seals, dating from the latest early to middle Miocene. Originally, Prophoca rousseaui and Prophoca proxima were described based on fragmentary remains from the Miocene of ...
Dewaele, Leonard +2 more
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Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2021 To understand the evolution of the Miocene gravity flow deposits in the Lower Cong—Congo Fan Basin, this paper documents the Miocene sequence stratigraphic framework, the depositional characteristics and the controlling factors of the gravity flow system.
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A Middle Miocene dolphin from Domasnea (Caransebes-Mehadia Miocene Basin)
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia, 2004 1 , VASILE SEREŢAN 2 ABSTRACT. A small-sized dolphin humerus originating from a drill core sample collected from a borehole located at Domasnea (Middle Miocene Caransebes-Mehadia Basin, South Carpatians) was found. This dolphin is assigned to Kentriodontidae family.
Codrea, Vlad, Serețan, Vasile
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China Geology, 2019 : The internal seismic architectures of the Middle Miocene in Beikang Basin, southern South China Sea, were investigated and described using regional 2D seismic data from Guangzhou Marine Geology Survey.
Zhen-yu Lei +5 more
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New Paratethyan dwarf baleen whales mark the origin of cetotheres [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Family Cetotheriidae sensu stricto and several closely related taxa comprise the Cetotherioidea and represent a lineage of Neogene baleen whales that includes the smallest edentulous baleen whales in Earth history.
Pavel Gol'din
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A new Lyropecten (Pectinidae, Bivalvia, Mollusca) from the central California Miocene, USA [PDF]
, 2020 A new pectinid, Lyropecten terrysmithae n. sp., has been recognized in middle to late Miocene rock units referred to as the Monterey Formation and Santa Margarita Sandstone in the southern Salinas Valley, central California. Previously, L.
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New data concerning the early middle miocene on the southern slopes of Fruška Gora (Northern Serbia): A case study from the Mutalj quarry [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2011 During the last few years, geological research at the southern slopes of Fruška Gora Mt. enabled the discovery of different Miocene units (undivided the Lower Miocene and Middle Miocene Badenian, predominantly). This is primarily thinking of the
Rundić Ljupko +4 more
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Middle Miocene Rissooidea (Caenogastropoda) of Letkés (Hungary)
Földtani Közlöny, 2023 A Middle Miocene (Early Badenian) Rissooidea assemblage with 19 species of ten genera is described and illustrated from the fossiliferous locality at Letkés (Börzsöny Mts, Hungary). The material represents the most highly diverse occurrence of the superfamily in the Pannonian Basin System.
Zoltán Kovács, Gerhard Stein
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Geologia Croatica, 2011 The Pannonian Basin System (PBS) originated during the Early Miocene as a result of extensional processes between the Alpine-Carpathian and the Dinaride Orogenic Belts.
Stjepan Ćorić +7 more
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