Browsing by Subject "Pliocene"

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    • A new odontocete (Inioidea, Odontoceti) from the late Neogene of North Carolina, USA 
      Godfrey, Stephen J.; Gutstein, Carolina Simon; Morgan III, Donald J. (Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH, Germanyc, 2021)
      A new monotypic genus of Neogene odontocete (Isoninia borealis) is named on the basis of a partial skull (CMM-V-4061). The holotype was found on the riverbed of the Meherrin River (North Carolina, USA) and probably originated ...
    • Did North Atlantic cooling and freshening from 3.65–3.5 Ma precondition Northern Hemisphere ice sheet growth? 
      Karas, Cyrus; Khélifi, Nabil; Bahr, André; Naafs, Bernhard; Nürnberg, Dirk; Herrle, Jens O. (Elsevier, 2020)
      The North Atlantic Current (NAC) as part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the major supplier of heat into the northern North Atlantic. Pliocene changes of AMOC strength were speculated to either ...
    • Paleoecological implications of dental mesowear and hypsodonty in fossil ungulates from Kanapoi 
      Dumouchel, Laurence; Bobe, René (Elsevier, 2020)
      The Pliocene site of Kanapoi is key to our understanding of the environmental context of the earliest species of Australopithecus. Various approaches have been used to reconstruct the environments of this site, and here ...
    • Repeated Near-Collapse of the Pliocene Sea Surface Temperature Gradient in the North Atlantic 
      Naafs, B. D. A.; Voelker, A. H. L.; Karas, C.; Andersen, N.; Sierro, F. J. (American Geophysical Union, 2020)
      Sea surface temperature (SST) is used to infer past changes in the state of the climate system. Here we use a combination of newly generated and published organic paleothermometer records, together with novel high-resolution ...
    • Ruminants (giraffidae and bovidae) from Kanapoi 
      Geraads, Denis; Bobe, René (Elsevier, 2020)
      We update here our recent revision of the Kanapoi ruminants and describe recently collected material. We now regard the occurrence of reduncins as doubtful, we revise the identification of a large raphicerin as being more ...
    • Suidae from Kanapoi 
      Geraads, Denis; Bobe, René (Elsevier, 2020)
      The whole collection of Suidae from Kanapoi is revised in the context of the systematics and evolution of Nyanzachoerus in the Pliocene of Eastern Africa. It contains only two species, Nyanzachoerus kanamensis and Notochoerus ...