Short note on the first record of fossil shark teeth in the Chehel-Kaman formation, Iran [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2020 Shark teeth discovered in the late Paleocene-early Eocene Chehel-Kaman Formation in NE Iran bring new data on the fossil fish record from this country. Two genera from the location are described and figured.
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The Nadir Crater offshore West Africa: A candidate Cretaceous-Paleogene impact structure
Science Advances, 2022 Evidence of marine target impacts, binary impact craters, or impact clusters are rare on Earth. Seismic reflection data from the Guinea Plateau, West Africa, reveal a ≥8.5-km-wide structure buried below ~300 to 400 m of Paleogene sediment with ...
Uisdean Nicholson +3 more
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Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2022 On overview of over a hundred years of history of Polish palaeobotanical research on the Paleogene and Neogene (formerly Tertiary) is provided. Profiles of the researchers who laid the foundations for the development of paleofloristic research are ...
Barbara Słodkowska +1 more
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LEROYI: A NEW TETHYAN LAGENID BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL GENUS [PDF]
Earth Sciences Pakistan, 2020 Leroyi n. gen., is introduced to include the Cretaceous-Neogene (predominantly Maastrichtian-Eocene) benthic Lagenid foraminiferids from many Tethyan localities that characterized by its slightly coiled early portion of the smooth test, later slightly ...
Haidar Salim Anan
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A Window onto the Eocene (Cenozoic): The Palaeontological Record of the Sobrarbe-Pirineos UNESCO Global Geopark (Huesca, Aragon, Spain) [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 The Sobrarbe-Pirineos UNESCO Global Geopark, located in the Central Pyrenees, is a region of remarkable geodiversity that includes extensive Eocene fossil-bearing sites and constitutes an important archive of paleobiodiversity.
Jose Canudo +11 more
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地质科技通报, 2021 The Melut Basin is an important petroliferous basin in African Continent. The northern part of the basin is characterized by far-source oil accumulation with the oil generation in the Lower Cretaceous and the oil accumulation in the Paleogene. Clarifying
Zhongsheng Shi +6 more
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Investigating bio-events and time expansion of Calcareous nannofossils in the upper part of the Gurpi Formation and lower part of the Pabdeh Formation, northwestern Shiraz [PDF]
Journal of Stratigraphy and Sedimentology Researches, 2020 In this study, calcareous nannofossils are investigated in the upper part of the Gurpi Formation and lower part of the Pabdeh Formation at the Par-e Nobar section located in the northwest of Shiraz. The thickness of the studied section is about 41 m. The
Saeedeh Senemari, Behzad Saeedi razavi
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Multispecies leatherback turtle assemblage from the Oligocene Chandler Bridge and Ashley formations of South Carolina, USA [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 Paleogene dermochelyid species richness far exceeded that of today. Leatherback sea turtles were most species rich in the Paleogene, but their richness declined sharply during the Neogene with only one species existing today, Dermochelys coriacea.
Bailey R. Fallon +1 more
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Evolution and dispersal of snakes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
Nature Communications, 2021 Mass extinctions have repeatedly shaped global biodiversity. The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction caused the demise of numerous vertebrate groups, and its aftermath saw the rapid diversification of surviving mammals, birds, frogs, and teleost ...
Catherine G Klein +5 more
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A Paleogene magmatic overprint on Cretaceous seamounts of the western Pacific
Island Arc, 2021 The West Pacific Seamount Province (WPSP) represents a series of short‐lived Cretaceous hotspot tracks. However, no intraplate volcanoes in advance of petit‐spot volcanism erupted near a trench have been identified after the formation of the WPSP on the ...
N. Hirano +8 more
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