A partial skeleton of Deinotherium (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the late Middle Miocene Gratkorn locality (Austria)

Abstract. Late Middle Miocene (Upper Badenian) strata of the Fore-Carpathian Depression of Poland yield a shallow-water ostracod fauna which contains the species Triebelina raripila (G. W. Müller, 1894) and Carinocythereis carinata (Roemer, 1838). The palaeobiogeographic distribution of the two main species suggests, that in the late Middle Miocene, Central Paratethys was still connected to the Mediterranean, although still separated from the Eastern Paratethys and from southeastern Eurasia. The continuous occurrence of Triebelina raripila and Carinocythereis carinata in the Mediterranean basins, from the Early Miocene to Recent, indicates that marine conditions existed throughout, thereby allowing them to survive the Late Miocene salinity crisis.

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New record of Neosaimiri (Cebidae, Platyrrhini) from the late Middle Miocene of Peruvian Amazonia

Journal of Human Evolution ◽

10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102835 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 146 ◽

pp. 102835 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laurent Marivaux ◽

Walter Aguirre-Diaz ◽

Aldo Benites-Palomino ◽

Guillaume Billet ◽

Myriam Boivin ◽

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Keyword(s):

New Record ◽

Middle Miocene ◽

Late Middle Miocene ◽

Peruvian Amazonia

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Two new macraucheniids (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the late middle Miocene (Laventan South American Land Mammal Age) of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology ◽

10.1080/02724634.2018.1461632 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. e1461632 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Andrew J. McGrath ◽

Federico Anaya ◽

Darin A. Croft

Keyword(s):

Middle Miocene ◽

South American ◽

Late Middle Miocene ◽

Land Mammal

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Evolutionary adaptation and geographic spread of the Cenozoic buccinid genus Lirabuccinum in the North Pacific

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000044711 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 77 (5) ◽

pp. 863-872 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kazutaka Amano ◽

Geerat J. Vermeij

Keyword(s):

North Pacific ◽

Middle Miocene ◽

Eastern Pacific ◽

Early Pleistocene ◽

Northwestern Pacific ◽

The North ◽

Early Oligocene ◽

Rocky Bottom ◽

Late Middle Miocene ◽

The Western Pacific

The Early Oligocene to Recent genus Lirabuccinum Vermeij, 1991, is a North Pacific clade of rocky-bottom predatory buccinid gastropods. A re-examination of all available material from eastern Asia and comparison of this material with western American species leads us to recognize four northwestern Pacific species: L. fuscolabiatum (Smith, 1875) from the Pliocene to Recent; L. japonicum (Yokoyama, 1926) from the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene; L. branneri (Clark and Arnold, 1923) from the early Middle Miocene, also known from the Oligocene in the eastern Pacific; and Lirabuccinum sp. from the late Middle Miocene. The genus originated in the eastern Pacific and subsequently spread to the western Pacific by late Early Miocene to early Middle Miocene time. Lirabuccinum exemplifies a common pattern among rocky-bottom North Pacific gastropods in that the early species have a thick, internally strongly ribbed or denticulate outer lip. As they adapted to the colder boreal realm during the Pliocene and Pleistocene, Lirabuccinum and such other clades as Nucella, Ceratostoma, and Ocinebrellus (all Muricidae) evolved thinner, less heavily reinforced outer lips.

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