Geosciences, 2020 Here we present relative abundances of planktic foraminifera that span the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO) at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1258 in the western equatorial Atlantic.
Roberta D’Onofrio +4 more
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The Pleistocene Glyptodontidae Gray, 1869 (Xenarthra: Cingulata) of Colombia and some considerations about the South American Glyptodontinae [PDF]
, 2012 Until recently, one well-characterized Pleistocene genus of the subfamily Glyptodontinae (Glyptodon ca. 1.08-0.0011 My) was recognized in South America.
Arenas Mosqueras, José E. +3 more
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The eoorthid brachiopod Apheoorthina in the Lower Ordovician of NW Argentina and the dispersal pathways along western Gondwana [PDF]
, 2016 The eoorthid brachiopod Apheoorthina is reported for the first time from the Lower Ordovician of NW Argentina. It is represented by a species similar to A.
Benedetto, Juan Luis Arnaldo +1 more
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Ecological limiting factors of early hominins in western Eurasia
One Health & Risk Management, 2023 Introduction. Early hominin (Homo ex. gr. erectus) dispersals from Africa into western Eurasia took place during the Early Pleistocene. Evidence points to the presence of humans in Western Europe, specifically Spain, around 1.1-1.2 Ma and in the ...
Roman CROITOR
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Mesozoic dinosaurs from Brazil and their biogeographic implications
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011 The record of dinosaur body-fossils in the Brazilian Mesozoic is restricted to the Triassic of Rio Grande do Sul and Cretaceous of various parts of the country.
Jonathas S. Bittencourt, Max C. Langer
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A large marine eosauropterygian reptile with affinities to nothosauroid diapsids from the Early Triassic of British Columbia, Canada [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 Sauropterygia, one of the main clades of Mesozoic marine reptiles, diversified shortly after the Permo-Triassic biotic crisis and afterwards remained one of the major components of Early Triassic and later Mesozoic marine ecosystems.
Torsten M. Scheyer +2 more
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The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution [PDF]
, 2015 The previous oldest known fossil snakes date from ∼100 million year old sediments (Upper Cretaceous) and are both morphologically and phylogenetically diverse, indicating that snakes underwent a much earlier origin and adaptive radiation.
Apesteguía, Sebastián +3 more
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2018 Nemkovella daguini (Neumann, 1958) is a small-sized orthophragminid species previously reported from the Lutetian to lower Priabonian shelf deposits of the peri-Mediterranean region (Western Tethys).
ERCAN ÖZCAN +5 more
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The Parautochthonous Gondwanan origin of the Cuyania (greater Precordillera) terrane of Argentina : a re-evaluation of evidence used to support an allochthonous Laurentian origin [PDF]
, 2007 A substantial, diverse body of evidence has been interpreted as suggesting that the Cuyania terrane of northwestern Argentina, which includes the Argentine Precordillera, rifted from the Ouachita embayment of Laurentia in the Early Cambrian, drifted ...
Finney, S. C.
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Aliança Formation (Jatobá Basin) represents lacustrine deposits formed in oxygenated waters that hosted a diverse fauna, including Hybodontiform sharks. Within this group, the Family Lonchidiidae comprises 11 valid genera, with Parvodus previously reported in Brazilian deposits from the Brejo Santo Formation (Araripe Basin, Late Jurassic ...
Larissa de Souza Ribeiro +1 more
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