a total 7 species and 13 genera of marine gastropod assemblages are reported for the first time from the varehh zard section (asmari formation), north of pole dokhtar, lorestan basin. the section under study, the asmari formation, lies between the shahbazam formation at the base and gachsaran formation at the top. according to the distribution of index foraminifera, the asmari formation is earl...

Abstract Geological studies in the northern sector of Chaco foreland Basin, Bolivia, yielded new fossils coming from late Oligocene-late Miocene Petaca Formation. Few fossil mammals were known Subandean Region Bolivia. We report a partially complete mandible hegetotheriid Hegetotheriinae (Notoungulata, Typotheria) Abapo (Rio Grande River). The specimen (YPFB-LIT-PAL-005) is very close size and ...

Ar–Ar and fission-track dating from four low-grade sections in the Alpujárride Complex sheds light on the timing of the early contractional history of these high-pressure metamorphic units, and their subsequent exhumation during the early Miocene extensional collapse of the Betic orogen. White mica grains from the lowest-grade rocks yield partly reset detrital Ar–Ar ages; where deformation and ...

The extant beaver, Castor, has played an important role shaping landscapes and ecosystems in Eurasia and North America, yet the origins and early evolution of this lineage remain poorly understood. Here we use a geometric morphometric approach to help re-evaluate the phylogenetic affinities of a fossil skull from the Late Miocene of China. This specimen was originally considered Sinocastor, and...

Within the Central Andes of NW Argentina, spatiotemporal distribution and style deformation is strongly influenced by pre-Cenozoic heterogeneities, mostly related to Salta rift extension in Cretaceous. At enigmatic junction thin-skinned Subandean belt thick-skinned Santa Barbara System, Tilcara Range adjacent San Lucas block, located within Eastern Cordillera, show thermochronological field evi...

This study provides a detailed magnetostratigraphic record of subsidence in the Linxia Basin, documenting a 27 Myr long sedimentary record from the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Deposition in the Linxia Basin began at V29 Ma and continued nearly uninterruptedly until V1.7 Ma. Increasing rates of subsidence between 29 and 6 Ma in the Linxia Basin suggest deposition in the foredeep po...