Anisodontheriumfrom the Late Miocene of North-Western Argentina

First mammal fossil locality from the late Miocene of Zagros, western Iran

A new and the first mammal fossil locality from the Zagros Basin of Iran is reported here. The fossil locality, known as Dimeh, is located in the Lorestan province, west of Iran. The fauna includes abundant bovid cranial remains, mostly representing boselaphines and palaeoryxoids, as well as gazelles and spiral horned antelopes. Hipparionine horses similar to Hippotherium group are also represe...

Airesites: a New Class of Late Miocene Tektites from Argentina

Introduction: We report the discovery of two tektites (Fig. 1A) collected in the vicinity of Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province (BPA), Argentina. The smaller tektite (T2) has an elongate, teardrop form ~2 mm long. The larger one (T1) appears to be a classic disc-shaped tektite ~2 mm in diameter. Both are black in reflected light and exhibit the grooved and pitted surface sculpting common to te...

Occurrence of Anopheles (Anopheles) neomaculipalpus Curry in north-western Argentina.

16. Late Neogene Paleoceanography in the Western North Pacific

Late Neogene paleoceanographic history in the western North Pacific is discussed on the basis of: (1) Td (diatom temperature) values, (2) species composition, and (3) the structure of diatom assemblages at Sites 579 and 580. These factors provide a record of fluctuations of the past position of the subarctic-subtropic front because these sites lie within the transition zone between the modern d...

A Log runner Orthonyx (Passeriformes: Orthonychidae) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, North-western Queensland

The purpose of this application is to conserve the current universal understanding and usage of the specific names of Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin, [1789]) and M. halli Mathews, 1912, for the southern, antarctic and the more northern, subantarc-tic species of giant petrel respectively (family PRO-CELLARIIDAE).The namegiganteus (type species of the genusMacronectes Richmond,...