Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2023 The history of the early Middle Pleistocene small mammal faunas of Eastern Europe is very complicated. The early Middle Pleistocene which spanned from the Brunhes-Matuyama transition (772.9 ka BP, within MIS 19) till the beginning of the Likhvin ...
Anastasia K. Markova +2 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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A Peculiar New Pampatheriidae (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Cingulata) from the Pleistocene of Argentina and Comments on Pampatheriidae Diversity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Pampatheriidae are a group of cingulates native to South American that are known from the middle Miocene to the lower Holocene. Two genera have been recognized between the lower Pleistocene and the lower Holocene: Pampatherium Gervais and Ameghino ...
Flávio Góis +3 more
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Deciphering African late middle Pleistocene hominin diversity and the origin of our species. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2019 The origin of Homo sapiens remains a matter of debate. The extent and geographic patterning of morphological diversity among Late Middle Pleistocene (LMP) African hominins is largely unknown, thus precluding the definition of boundaries of variability in
Mounier A, Mirazón Lahr M.
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Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Significance Human evolution through the Middle to the Late Pleistocene in East Asia has been seen as reflecting diverse groups and discontinuities vs. a continuity of form reflecting an evolving population.
Wu XJ +18 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 ...
BELLUCCI, Luca +4 more
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Quaternary marine transgressions in eastern China
Journal of Palaeogeography, 2012 Based on the data from 117 holes (9151 samples) and the research on ecology and palaeoecology of Foraminifera combined with that on Ostracoda, diatoms, pollen and spores, eight marine transgressions have been recognized in the great plain regions through
Lin Jingxing, Dai Luping
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Steppes, savannahs, forests and phytodiversity reservoirs during the Pleistocene in the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
, 2010 A palaeobotanical analysis of the Pleistocene floras and vegetation in the Iberian Peninsula shows the existence of patched landscapes with Pinus woodlands, deciduous and mixed forests, parklands (savannah-like), shrublands, steppes and grasslands ...
Agustí +259 more
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MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SMALL MAMMAL FAUNAS OF EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE: CHRONOLOGY, CORRELATION
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2012 Many new very important Middle Pleistocene small mammal localities of Europe were discovered during the last decades. These new data permit to divide the Middle Pleistocene geological sequences of Eastern and Western Europe and carried out the ...
Anastasia Markova, Thijs van Kolfschoten
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Large mammal remains from the early pleistocene site of Podere San Lorenzo (Perugia, Central Italy) [PDF]
, 2019 Most of the research on fossil mammals from Umbria (central Italy) has been carried out in the southwestern branch of the Tiber basin, due to its paleontological richness.
Azzarà, Beatrice +6 more
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