Reassessment of amber-bearing deposits of Provence, southeastern France
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2021 The presence of “geological” amber (or “succin” in old French monographs) has been reported for several centuries in the Mesozoic deposits of Provence, southeastern France.
Saint Martin Jean-Paul +9 more
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Protein and chitin preservation in polymeric sheets in Miocene Ecphora gardnerae shells from Maryland, USA [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaThe shells of muricoid gastropod Ecphora gardnerae from the Miocene St. Marys Formation of Maryland, USA, have been shown to contain polymeric sheets within the calcareous matrix. These membranes were found to have amino acids and complex sugar compounds.
Timothy P. Cleland +5 more
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Geochemistry and petrogenesis of mafic and intermediate dyke swarms in eastern Tafresh (Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt) [PDF]
پترولوژیIntroductionThe Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt is one of the most active magmatic regions of Iran during the Cenozoic era. There are differing views regarding the tectonomagmatic setting of this magmatism; some attribute it to active continental margin ...
Ahmadreza Ahmadi, Behnaz Hosseini
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Tracking a “Prehistoric Pompeii” , Rhinoland and Crocodilia: New Discoveries And Interpretations Of Ipolytarnóc (N Hungary) Lower Miocene Track Site [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 The transnational Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark situated in Northern Hungary and Southern Slovakia has several important Neogene fossil sites developed for geotourism. One of them is the lower Miocene paleontological locality complex at Ipolytarnóc , which has
Laszlo Kordos +2 more
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Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Gastropod Faunas of Vareh Zard section, North of Pole-Dokhtar, (Lorestan, Iran) [PDF]
Journal of Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2014 A total 7 species and 13 genera of marine gastropod assemblages are reported for the first time from the Varehh Zard section (Asmari Formation), north of Pole Dokhtar, Lorestan Basin.
I. Maghfouri Moghaddam
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The Monterey event in the Mediterranean: A record from shelf sediments of Malta [PDF]
, 1996 Oligo-Miocene carbonate platform and shelf sediments outcropping on the Maltese Islands provide an excellent archive of the paleoceanography of the central Mediterranean.
Helmut Weissert +7 more
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Two Crusafontina (Mammalia, Insectivora) fossils from the Miocene of the Transdanubian Central Range (Hungary) [PDF]
, 2008 Two isolated teeth of Anourosoricini shrews, Crusafontina (Mammalia, Insectivora, Soricidae) are present in this paper. A complete left maxillary molar was found in the Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) locality of Várpalota Lignite Mine, Pit III.
Mészáros, L. Gy.
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Some insectivore (Mammalia) remains from the Late Miocene locality of Alsótelekes (Hungary) [PDF]
, 1999 Six Insectivora species (Plesiosorex sp., Florinia ef. stehlini, Allosorex ef. stenodus, Crusafontina endemica, Miosorex sp., Soricinae gen. et sp.) were found in the Alsótelekes Late Miocene fossil material.
Mészáros, L. Gy.
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Soricidae (Mammalia, Insectivora) remains from three Late Miocene localities in western Hungary [PDF]
, 1996 The Soricidae fauna of Sümeg, Csákvár and Széchenyi Hill (Hungary) is presented. The following taxa were identified in the fauna: Dinosorex sp., Amblycoptus oligodon KORMOS1926, Crusafontina endernica GIBERT1974, Crusafontina vicina (KRETZOJ,1954 ...
Mészáros, L. Gy.
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