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The transient impact of the African monsoon on Plio-Pleistocene Mediterranean sediments [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2021 Over the Plio-Pleistocene interval a strong linkage exists between northern African climate changes and the supply of dust over the surrounding oceans and continental runoff towards the Mediterranean Sea.
B. de Boer +3 more
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Geologija, 2019 This study presents the results of the first systematic morphostratigraphic and provenance analyses of the Pliocene-Quaternary fluvial sediments in the Celje and Drava-Ptuj intramontane basins.
Eva Mencin Gale +6 more
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Shape Ontogeny of the Distal Femur in the Hominidae with Implications for the Evolution of Bipedality. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Heterochrony has been invoked to explain differences in the morphology of modern humans as compared to other great apes. The distal femur is one area where heterochrony has been hypothesized to explain morphological differentiation among Plio-Pleistocene
Melissa Tallman
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Hominin cranial fragments from Milner Hall, Sterkfontein, South Africa
South African Journal of Science, 2018 The Sterkfontein Caves site is one of the richest early hominin localities in Africa. In addition to significant fossil assemblages from Members 2 and 4 of the Sterkfontein Formation, recent excavations have revealed hominin-bearing sedimentary deposits ...
Amélie Beaudet +4 more
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Nyctereutes terblanchei: The raccoon dog that never was [PDF]
, 2012 Fossils of the raccoon dog (genus Nyctereutes) are particularly rare in the African PlioPleistocene record, whilst the sole living representative, Nyctereutes procyonoides, is found in eastern Asia and parts of Europe. In southern Africa, only one fossil
Reynolds, Sally C., Reynolds, Sally
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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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THE GENUS URSUS IN EURASIA: DISPERSAL EVENTS AND STRATIGRAPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2017 On the basis of the results of former studies by the present authors five main groups of bears are recognized: Ursus gr. minimus - thibetanus (black bears), Ursus gr. etruscus (etruscan bears), Ursus gr. arctos (brown bears), Ursus gr.
MARCO RUSTIONI, PAUL MAZZA
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Clay Mineralogy of Red Clay Deposits from the Central Carpathian Basin (Hungary): Implications for Plio/Pleistocene Chemical Weathering and Paleoclimate [PDF]
, 2013 Geochemical and mineralogical studies of palaeosols provide essential information for palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of continental deposits and can present a proxy for palaeoclimate.
Ottner, Franz +5 more
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Quaternary, 2021 The Pampean Region contains sedimentary sequences with abundant mammal fossil records, which constitute the chronological outline of the Plio–Pleistocene of South America.
José Luis Prado +2 more
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Evolutionary diversification of the lizard genus Bassiana (Scincidae) across Southern Australia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 BACKGROUND: Relatively recent (Plio-Pleistocene) climatic variations had strong impacts on the fauna and flora of temperate-zone North America and Europe; genetic analyses suggest that many lineages were restricted to unglaciated refuges during this time,
Sylvain Dubey, Richard Shine
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