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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mio-Pliocene"”.
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Salamanders of the Mio-Pliocene Gray Fossil Site, Washington County, Tennessee.
… salamander fauna for the southern Appalachian Mio-Pliocene; including at least five taxa from three modern families (Ambystomatidae, Plethodontidae, and Salamandridae) supporting the woodland-pond interpretation of the site. All specimens represent the earliest record of their respective …
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Non-Ranid Anurans of the Mio-Pliocene Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee
<p>Researchers at the GFS, Washington County, Tennessee through the wet screening of nearly 100%of the sediment excavated at the site, recovered an extensive collection of anuran fossil elements. Until recently, these specimens have not been analyzed. The purpose here is the examination, …
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The taxonomy and taphonomy in mio-pliocene and late middle pleistocene micromammals from the Cape west coast, South Africa
… in the western Cape Province representing the Mio-Pliocene, a slice of time when modem micromammal genera were emerging. The second site investigated in this thesis is the late Middle Pleistocene site of Hoedjiespunt 1, which fills a significant gap in the continuum of micromammal evolution in …
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Variation in the Modified First Metatarsal of a Large Sample of <em>Tapirus polkensis</em> and the Functional Implications for Ceratomorphs.
<p>The Mio-Pliocene age Gray Fossil Site of northeastern Tennessee has the largest collection of tapir postcranial skeletons in the world. Though representing a single species, a few localized structures show high variability. This paper deals with variation of the first metatarsal, which in tapirs …
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The role of wind and water in shaping earth's plateaus
… Spectroradiometer; (3) finally, a 2.5-km-long Mio-Pliocene sedimentary record of the intermontane Angastaco Basin (25°45’ S, 66°00’ W) is presented in the context of hydrogen and carbon compositions of molecular lipid biomarker, and oxygen and carbon isotopes obtained from pedogenic carbonates; …
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Sedimentology and taphonomy of cenozoic vertebrates from Langebaanweg, Cape West Coast, South Africa; with palaeoecological interpretations
… Africa that preserves remains from the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene. The Mio-Pliocene is a period of major climatic change, with global temperatures falling, and increased aridity and seasonality across the African continent. Langebaanweg, located on the coastal platform of Southern Africa, …