The fossil diversity of Diapriidae in Baltic amber, dated Upper Eocene, has been poorly investigated. However, some studies suggest that this family was already diversified at this time. This is supported by our present study of the Baltic amber collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, from which we describe and figure ten new species b...
Published in Heliyon
Palynomorph assemblages, Depositional sequence, Paleo-environment, Cenozoic, Douala Basin, Cameroon.
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
The Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the North Qaidam-Qilian Shan fold-thrust belt in the northern Tibetan Plateau is important to understanding the tectonic rejuvenation of orogeny and growth of the plateau. However, the deformation processes in this region remain controversial. This study presents new apatite fission track (AFT) data from Paleogene...
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The chemical weathering of sulfide-bearing rocks can result in the dissolution of carbonate rocks leading to degassing of (Formula presented.) to the atmosphere. While this process has been argued to be a significant geologic source of (Formula presented.), it also perturbs the geological cycles of oxygen and sulfur, triggering a cascade of geochem...
More than 200 years since its initial exploration, Zanda Basin, a high-elevation (3,800–4,500 m above sea), intermountain basin at the foothills of the Himalaya, is the site to some of the earliest fossil discoveries, including the holotype of extinct Tibetan antelope, Qurliqnoria hundesiensis. These fossils also hold the record, in 1823, as the fi...
Marine reptiles and mammals are phylogenetically so distant from each other that their marine adaptations are rarely compared directly. We reviewed ecophysiological features in extant non-avian marine tetrapods representing 31 marine colonizations to test whether there is a common pattern across higher taxonomic groups, such as mammals and reptiles...
Published in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Marine reptiles and mammals are phylogenetically so distant from each other that their marine adaptations are rarely compared directly. We reviewed ecophysiological features in extant non-avian marine tetrapods representing 31 marine colonizations to test whether there is a common pattern across higher taxonomic groups, such as mammals and reptiles...
Published in Moscow University Geology Bulletin
Abstract—The paleotemperature curves for water masses and average annual temperatures have been plotted for the first time on the basis of original and published data for the Central and Eastern Tethys for the Jurassic–Quaternary period.
