PALAEONTOLOGICAL (RADIOLARIAN) LATE JURASSIC AGE CONSTRAINT FOR THE STEPANAVAN OPHIOLITE (LESSER CAUCASUS, ARMENIA)

Understanding health care in the south Caucasus: examples from Armenia.

Global Distribution of Rhaetian Radiolarian Faunas and Their Contribution to the Definition of the Triassic-jurassic Boundary

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The Beyşehir–Hoyran–Hadim Nappes: genesis and emplacement of Mesozoic marginal and oceanic units of the northern Neotethys in southern Turkey

The Beyşehir–Hoyran–Hadim Nappes crop out over 700 km from NW to SE. Above a regionally autochthonous Tauride carbonate platform the Beyşehir–Hoyran Nappes begin with a thrust sheet (c. 400 m) of mainly redeposited carbonates, quartzose sandstones and mudstones of Mid–Late Triassic age, interpreted as a proximal slope–base-of-slope succession. Above is a thrust sheet (c. 1 km) of Middle–Upper T...

Late Jurassic salamandroid from western Liaoning, China.

A Jurassic salamander, Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis (gen. et sp. nov.), from a recently found site in western Liaoning Province, China is the earliest known record of Salamandroidea. As a Late Jurassic record of the group, it extends the range of the clade by ~40 Ma. The Late Jurassic taxon is neotenic and represented by exceptionally preserved specimens, including fully articulated cranial and ...

Revised age of late Neanderthal occupation and the end of the Middle Paleolithic in the northern Caucasus.

Advances in direct radiocarbon dating of Neanderthal and anatomically modern human (AMH) fossils and the development of archaeostratigraphic chronologies now allow refined regional models for Neanderthal-AMH coexistence. In addition, they allow us to explore the issue of late Neanderthal survival in regions of Western Eurasia located within early routes of AMH expansion such as the Caucasus. He...