In a re-examination of the Neogene stratigraphy of the Uşak,Güre,and Selendi basins of western Anatolia,western Turkey,the stratigraphic position of the previously definedİnay Group is revised,which was previously co...
I wish to thank Professor M-R.Palombo for inviting me to participate in this special volume.I also thank A.Athanassiou,G.Lyras and S.Roussiakis for providing photos of the material housed in the Museum of Palaeontology and Geology,University of Athens.Many thanks are due to other reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions on the manuscript.
Knowledge on the Villafranchian faunas of Greece was limited for a long time,but over the past 3 decades several new fossiliferous sites have been discovered and new material has been unearthed.The carnivores constit...
supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB806400);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40532010);the Basic Work Program of MST of China (Grant No. 2006FY120300-15);Special Fund for Fossil Excavation and Preparation of Chinese Academy of Sciences,and US National Science Foundation (Grant Nos. EAR-0120727, BCS-0309800)
Paleogene strata in the Huheboerhe area,Erlian Basin,Inner Mongolia,China have been subdivided into three lithological units:the Nomogen Formation,the Arshanto Formation,and the Irdin Manha Formation.At least 12 mamma...
Cenozoic terrestrial mammals from Sardinia contribute substantial information for reconstructing the complex his-tory of the western Mediterranean.The occurrence of endemic perissodactyls in Eocene marine and marsh de...
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.40232023);Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.KZCX2-103 and RJZ2001-105);Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.G2000077700).|
The Hezheng area Of Gansu Province produces the most abundant mammal fossils in China as well as the whole Eurasia, and it also produces other Cenozoic fossils of different animals and plants. Therefore, all of them a...
The consensus view among geologists is that the Lanzhou Basin sequence of sedimentscontains the Oligocene/Miocene boundary, but where this occurs is unknown. Indeed, this is thecrux of the issues concerning mid-Tertia...