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The Plio-Pleistocene boundary in Southeast Spain: A review [PDF]
Quaternary International, 1997 The Plio-Pleistocene boundary in the Mediterranean region has been defined by the entry of the so-called 'northern guests'. The absence of this characteristic cold fauna in the sedimentary record of littoral marine basins in SE Spain has led to the local establishment of this boundary by other means.
Bardají Azcárate, Teresa +7 more
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PREDATOR-PREY BIOMASS FLUCTUATIONS IN THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE [PDF]
PALAIOS, 2012 The application of principles derived from recent ecosystems to paleoecosystems is an important tool for testing the universality of these principles, as well as identifying deviations that require further investigation. Here, we estimate the predator and prey biomass in nine Italian Plio-Pleistocene mammalian paleocommunities and compare their ...
Meloro, C, Clauss, Marcus
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Evaluation of the Plio-Pleistocene astronomical timescale
Paleoceanography, 1996 An astronomically calibrated timescale has recently been established [Hilgen, 1991a, b] for the Pliocene and earliest Pleistocene based on the correlation of dominantly precession controlled sedimentary cycles (sapropels and carbonate cycles) in Mediterranean marine sequences to the precession time series of the astronomical solution of Berger and ...
Lourens, L.J. +5 more
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A REVISION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN PLIO-PLEISTOCENE DIMYIDAE FISCHER, 1886
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2017 The revision of Mediterranean Dimyidae recorded from Plio-Pleistocene sediments has demonstrated the validity of Dimya tenuiplicata (Seguenza, 1879), occurring from Tortonian to Upper Pleistocene.
CESARE CORSELLI, ALESSANDRA BERNOCCHI
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A dated phylogeny shows Plio-Pleistocene climates spurred evolution of antibrowsing defences in the New Zealand flora. [PDF]
New Phytol, 2022 Summary Some plant traits may be legacies of coevolution with extinct megafauna. One example is the convergent evolution of ‘divaricate’ cage architectures in many New Zealand lineages, interpreted as a response to recently extinct flightless avian ...
Maurin KJL, Smissen RD, Lusk CH.
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Oscillayers: A dataset for the study of climatic oscillations over Plio-Pleistocene time-scales at high spatial-temporal resolution. [PDF]
Glob Ecol Biogeogr, 2019 Motivation In order to understand how species evolutionarily responded to Plio‐Pleistocene climate oscillations (e.g. in terms of speciation, extinction, migration and adaptation), it is first important to have a good understanding of those past climate ...
Gamisch A.
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Independent evolution of baleen whale gigantism linked to Plio-Pleistocene ocean dynamics. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2017 Vertebrates have evolved to gigantic sizes repeatedly over the past 250 Myr, reaching their extreme in today's baleen whales (Mysticeti). Hypotheses for the evolution of exceptionally large size in mysticetes range from niche partitioning to predator ...
Slater GJ, Goldbogen JA, Pyenson ND.
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Hominid butchers and biting crocodiles in the African Plio-Pleistocene. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Significance The idea that early Australopithecus shaped stone tools to butcher large mammals before the emergence of Homo around 2 million years ago has excited both primatologists and archaeologists.
Sahle Y, El Zaatari S, White TD.
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Modelled ocean changes at the Plio-Pleistocene transition driven by Antarctic ice advance. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2017 The Earth underwent a major transition from the warm climates of the Pliocene to the Pleistocene ice ages between 3.2 and 2.6 million years ago. The intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation is the most obvious result of the Plio-Pleistocene ...
Hill DJ, Bolton KP, Haywood AM.
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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 2021 Efforts to understand long‐term Indian Ocean dynamics and land‐sea linkages in southeast Africa during periods of significant global and regional climate change have been inhibited by a lack of high‐resolution climate records, particularly during the ...
Audrey K. Taylor +9 more
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