A study of the Mio-Pliocene marine palaeoenvironment on South Africa’s west coast revealed aspects biology and behaviour fossil mammals. Close examination showed that seals from Langebaanweg suffered pathologies bore marks carnivore activity. This adds to our knowledge shark feeding in geological past is one a few studies sharks record. Two incomplete seal humeri with tooth are first documented...

New fossil discoveries are reported from the Grammajukku Formation at Luobákte south of Lake Torneträsk in northern Swedish Lapland, including a fauna Small Shelly Fossils (SSF) limestone bed uppermost part formation and new occurrences brachiopods trilobites siltstones lower formation. The moderately diverse SSF is first its kind Caledonides includes record tommotiid Lapworthella schodackensis...

Abstract Chalicotheres are a peculiar group of large herbivorous mammals, closely related to extant tapirs, rhinoceroses, and horses, but with claws instead hooves. The family Chalicotheriidae consists two subfamilies, the Schizotheriinae Chalicotheriinae. Herein we present chalicothere remains from Upper Miocene locality Pogana 1 in Romania, identifying schizotheriine Ancylotherium pentelicum ...