Systematics of Miocene apes: State of the art of a neverending controversy

A Urciuoli, DM Alba - Journal of Human Evolution, 2023 - Elsevier
Hominoids diverged from cercopithecoids during the Oligocene in Afro-Arabia, initially
radiating in that continent and subsequently dispersing into Eurasia. From the Late Miocene …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetostratigraphic dating of earliest hominin sites in Europe

L Gibert, G Scott, A Deino, R Martin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
After a century of research, the chronology of the first arrival of hominins in Europe remains
controversial. Four Spanish localities potentially record evidence of the oldest Europeans …

Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change

R Flecker, W Krijgsman, W Capella… - 2015 - Elsevier
Marine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and nutrients
between oceans and seas. As a result, changes in gateway geometry can significantly alter …

Piecing the barcoding puzzle of Palearctic water frogs (Pelophylax) sheds light on amphibian biogeography and global invasions

C Dufresnes, B Monod‐Broca, A Bellati… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Palearctic water frogs (genus Pelophylax) are an outstanding model in ecology and
evolution, being widespread, speciose, either threatened or threatening to other species …

The Alboran volcanic-arc modulated the Messinian faunal exchange and salinity crisis

G Booth-Rea, C R. Ranero, I Grevemeyer - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
What process triggered the Mediterranean Sea restriction remains debated since the
discovery of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). Recent hypotheses infer that the MSC …

The radiation of macaques out of Africa: Evidence from mitogenome divergence times and the fossil record

C Roos, M Kothe, DM Alba, E Delson… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fossil evidence indicates that numerous catarrhine clades of African origin expanded or
shifted their ranges into Eurasia, among them macaques Macaca Lacépède, 1799 …

African land mammal ages

JA Van Couvering, E Delson - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …

The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography

NR Longrich, XP Suberbiola, RA Pyron, NE Jalil - Cretaceous Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Cretaceous saw distinctly endemic dinosaur faunas evolve in the northern
and southern hemispheres. The Laurasian continents of North America and Asia were …

Chronology for the Cueva Victoria fossil site (SE Spain): evidence for early Pleistocene Afro-Iberian dispersals

L Gibert, GR Scott, D Scholz, A Budsky… - Journal of human …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cueva Victoria has provided remains of more than 90 species of fossil vertebrates, including
a hominin phalanx, and the only specimens of the African cercopithecid Theropithecus …

Tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the Western Alboran Sea Basin in the last 25 Myrs

D Do Couto, C Gorini, L Jolivet, N Lebret, R Augier… - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Western Alboran Basin (WAB) formation has always been the subject of debate
and considered either as a back-arc or a forearc basin. Stratigraphic analyses of high …