lithological characteristics of the asmari formation in the burujen area are: pelagic foraminifera wackestone-packstone; bentic foraminifera echinid packstone; bentic foraminifera corallinaceapackstone; coral boundstone and echinid corallinacea packstone to grainstone; corallinacea boundstone; corallinacea bryozoa packstone; rniliolid echinid wackestone; and bioclastic wackestone. the examined ...

Here we describe a new elasmobranch assemblage consisting of isolated dental material from the Aquitanian near-shore marine deposits Shuwayr and Warak formations at Sharbithat, in eastern Sultanate Oman. The faunal composition clearly indicates affinities to other early Miocene elasmobranch-bearing localities worldwide. This is predominantly composed large common pelagic sharks as well teeth at...

The Taatsiin Gol Basin in Mongolia is a key area for understanding the evolution and dispersal of Central Asian mammal faunas during the Oligocene and early Miocene. After two decades of intense fieldwork, the area is extraordinarily well sampled and taxonomically well studied, yielding a large dataset of 19,042 specimens from 60 samples. The specimens represent 176 species-level and 99 genus-l...

New paleomagnetic results from Neogene sedimentary sequences from the Betic chain (Spain) are here presented. Sedimentary basins located in different areas were selected in order to obtain paleomagnetic data from structural domains that experienced different tectonic evolution during the Neogene. Whereas no rotations have been evidenced in the Late Tortonian sediments in the Guadalquivir forela...

Abstract The Nukhul Formation has been a point of controversy until now due to lack index fossils, varied facies modifications, and different time gaps. As result, the calcareous nannofossils exposed Miocene rocks at Wadi Baba, west-central Sinai have studied quantitatively for first time. An important sequence nannofossil bioevents recorded in Formation, including FOs Discoaster druggii , Sphe...

The position of Turkey between Europe and Asia makes this region interesting for palaeobotanical investigations. We investigated plant macrofossils from early Miocene deposits W (Soma, Manisa) compiled a catalogue revised new taxa. documented 100 fossil-taxa, which several are (Mahonia aff. pseudosimplex, Ziziphus paradisiaca, Comptonia longirostris, Carya denticulata, Viscum, Fatsia, Pungiphyl...

Abstract King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula) is renowned for its terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record, which includes evidence potentially up to four Cenozoic glacial periods. An advantage of the glacigenic outcrops on island that they are associated with volcanic formations can be isotopically dated. As a result new mapping and chronological study, it now shown p...