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...

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...

This work introduces one of the first palynostatigraphic study conducted on formations from Eocene and overlying lowermost Miocene successions (Cunga Quifangondo formations) exposed in Onshore Kwanza Basin, Angola. To improve Cunga age, new biostratigraphic correlations palaeoenvironmental interpretations based qualitative quantitative analyses organic walled dinoflagellate cysts sedimentary ro...

BACKGROUND The family Phyllanthaceae has a predominantly pantropical distribution. Of its several genera, Bridelia Willd. is of a special interest because it has disjunct equally distributed species in Africa and tropical Asia i.e. 18-20 species in Africa-Madagascar (all endemic) and 18 species in tropical Asia (some shared with Australia). On the basis of molecular phylogenetic study on Bridel...

in this research, biostratigraphy and paleo-ecological reconstruction of the qom formation deposits in bijegan village, northeast ofdelijan, are discussed. the studied section is situated in the western margin of the urumieh-dokhtar magmatic arc (the intra-arc basin).the qom formation deposits at the studied area are rupelian-chattian in age. larger benthic foraminifers are used for biostratigr...

L’étude de la biodiversité corallienne série sédimentaire l’Oligocène supérieur (Lower Coralline Limestone, Chattien) Malte a permis d’identifier 25 genres scléractiniaires représentés par 41 espèces. Trois nouvelles espèces sont proposées : Miophora naxxarensis n. sp. , Nerthastraea maltensis sp.et Gyrosmilia Les observations réalisées dans divers sites oligocènes Malte, surtout aux environs N...

Abstract The authors describe a fossil avian distal tibiotarsal epiphysis, remains of cormorant (Phalacrociracinae), differing in age and morphological characters from other cormorants. material comes sandy marine deposits the village Máriahalom north-western Hungary, together with 26 vertebrate species, mostly marine. fossiliferous deposit is established Late Oligocene, at beginning Chattian s...