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Antler tine homologies and cervid systematics: A review of past and present controversies with special emphasis on Elaphurus davidianus

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, Volume 306, Issue 1, Page 5-28, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Antlers are the most conspicuous trait of cervids and have been used in the past to establish a classification of their fossil and living representatives. Since the availability of molecular data, morphological characters have generally become less important for phylogenetic reconstructions.
Nicola S. Heckeberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

DENISOVA CAVE: A PROMINENT PALEOLITHIC SITE IN NORTH ASIA [PDF]

open access: yesShedet, 2017
Denisova Cave is situated in the Altai region of Siberia (Russia). It contains more than twenty layers of excavated artifacts indicative hominin occupation dating as far back as 280,000 years BP and as recent as the Middle Ages.
Aboualhassan BAKRY
doaj   +1 more source

The skeleton of Congruus kitcheneri, a semiarboreal kangaroo from the Pleistocene of southern Australia [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2021
The macropodine kangaroo, Wallabia kitcheneri, was first described in 1989 from a Pleistocene deposit within Mammoth Cave, southwestern Australia, on the basis of a few partial dentaries and maxilla fragments. Here, we recognize W.
Natalie M. Warburton   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Middle Pleistocene Fauna Of Fossil Rodents And LoessPaleosol Series Of The Pekla Key Section (Taman Peninsula, Russia)

open access: yesGeography, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Pleistocene glaciation of Fenland, England, and its implications for evolution of the region [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2018
Detailed investigation of landforms and their underlying deposits on the eastern margin of Fenland, East Anglia, demonstrated that they represent a series of glaciofluvial delta-fan and related sediments.
P. L. Gibbard   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pleistocene hominins as a resource for carnivores. A c. 500,000-year-old human femur bearing tooth-marks in North Africa (Thomas Quarry I, Morocco) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In many Middle Pleistocene sites, the co-occurrence of hominins with carnivores, who both contributed to faunal accumulations, suggests competition for resources as well as for living spaces.
Abderrahim, Mohib   +6 more
core   +10 more sources

Macaca sylvanus Linnaeus 1758 from the Middle Pleistocene of Quecchia Quarry (Brescia, Northern Italy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Effect of ice sheet thickness on formation of the Hiawatha impact crater [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The discovery of a large putative impact crater buried beneath Hiawatha Glacier along the margin of the northwestern Greenland Ice Sheet has reinvigorated interest into the nature of large impacts into thick ice masses. This circular structure is relatively shallow and exhibits a small central uplift, whereas a peak-ring morphology is expected.
arxiv   +1 more source

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