[PDF][PDF] Miocene Central Paratethys stratigraphy–current status and future directions

WE Piller, M Harzhauser, O Mandic - Stratigraphy, 2007 - olivirv.myspecies.info
The complex geodynamic history of the Paratethys periodically fostered the evolution of a
highly endemic biota with only limited exchange between the neighboring Mediterranean …

Paleogene integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

Y Wang, Q Li, B Bai, X Jin, F Mao, J Meng - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
The Paleogene is the first period after the Mesozoic Mass Extinction. Mammals become the
dominant group in the terrestrial ecosystem with a rapid radiation, and Asia has been …

Palaeogeographic considerations for Mediterranean and Paratethys seaways (Oligocene to Miocene)

F Rögl - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien …, 1997 - JSTOR
Some considerations on the palaeogeography of the Mediterranean and Paratethys
Oligocene to Miocene are presented in ten time-slices. The time-slices start with the …

Fossil mammals resolve regional patterns of Eurasian climate change over 20 million years

M Fortelius, J Eronen, J Jernvall… - Evolutionary …, 2002 - evolutionary-ecology.com
Fossil teeth of terrestrial plant-eating mammals offer a new, quasi-quantitative proxy for
environmental aridity that resolves previously unseen regional features across the Eurasian …

Phylogenetic systematics of the North American fossil caninae (Carnivora: Canidae)

RH Tedford, X Wang, BE Taylor - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2009 - BioOne
The canid subfamily Caninae includes all the living canids and their most recent fossil
relatives. Their sister taxon is the Borophaginae with which they share an important …

Post-Eocene evolution of the North Alpine Foreland Basin and its response to Alpine tectonics

J Kuhlemann, O Kempf - Sedimentary geology, 2002 - Elsevier
The post-flysch (Oligocene–Miocene) palaeogeographic evolution of the entire North Alpine
Foreland Basin (NAFB) between Savoy (France) and Lower Austria is presented in eight …

Origin of NE-trending basins in western Turkey

E Bozkurt - Geodinamica acta, 2003 - Elsevier
The origin of NE-trending basins and their relation to the E–W-trending grabens in western
Turkey have been the subject of long lasting debate. The stratigraphical and structural …

Rise and fall of the Paratethys Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis

W Krijgsman, M Stoica, I Vasiliev, VV Popov - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Extremely thick evaporite units were deposited during the so-called Messinian Salinity Crisis
(MSC: 5.96–5.33 Ma) in a deep Mediterranean basin that was progressively disconnected …

Late Miocene and Pliocene large land mammals and climatic changes in Eurasia

M Fortelius, J Eronen, L Liu, D Pushkina… - Palaeogeography …, 2006 - Elsevier
The fossil teeth of land mammals offer a powerful tool to map the regional details of past
climate change in the terrestrial realm. We use mean plant-eater hypsodonty (molar crown …

The spread of grass-dominated habitats in Turkey and surrounding areas during the Cenozoic: phytolith evidence

CAE Strömberg, L Werdelin, EM Friis… - Palaeogeography …, 2007 - Elsevier
The arrival of hipparionine horses in the eastern Mediterranean region around 11 Ma was
traditionally thought to mark the simultaneous westward expansion of savanna vegetation …