Although the first ten million years of whale evolution are documented by a remarkable
series of fossil skeletons, the link to the ancestor of cetaceans has been missing. It was …

The phylogenetic position of Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) is an important
exemplar problem for combined data parsimony analyses because the clade is ancient and …

374 SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA advance in devising a nomenclature for what came to
be recognized as a series of successive faunas. These, together with additional units …

The earliest known hippopotamids, attributed to the subfamily Kenyapotaminae, are known
essentially from dental remains of two species. The first was found in the middle Miocene of …

Since its first erection almost 200 years ago, palaeontologists have assigned to the genus
Anthracotherium many species, some with dubious descriptions. Although it is a key taxon …

Highly curved orogens often demonstrate a complex poly-phase tectonic evolution and
significant strain partitioning. While the oroclinal bending towards the outer arc is …

Since the first exploitation of the Huppersandstones quarry of Rickenbach (Canton
Solothurn, Switzerland) in 1898, many fossils of plants, molluscs, and vertebrates have been …

The biostratigraphy and diversity patterns of terrestrial, hoofed mammals help to understand
the transition between the Palaeogene and the Neogene in Western Europe. Three phases …

Hippopotamoids are herbivorous mammals that originated in the late middle Eocene. This
taxon includes animals with a great variety of sizes and body proportions, from small and …

Recently collected carnivoran specimens from the Siwalik Group of Pakistan are described
and discussed. These specimens add to our knowledge of the previously known taxa while …