Mammal biochronology (Land Mammal Ages) around the world from Late Miocene to Middle Pleistocene and major events in horse evolutionary history

L Rook, RL Bernor, LS Avilla, O Cirilli… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Biochronology is important to vertebrate chronology because the primary temporal units
developed and applied by vertebrate paleontologists for correlation of terrestrial deposits …

The last Plio-Pleistocene hipparions of Western Eurasia. A review with remarks on their taxonomy, paleobiogeography and evolution

O Cirilli, L Pandolfi, DM Alba… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pliocene and Early Pleistocene three-toed horses of Western Eurasia
(Caucasus, Anatolia, Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, Italian and Iberian Peninsulas …

The expansion of grassland ecosystems in Africa in relation to mammalian evolution and the origin of the genus Homo

R Bobe, AK Behrensmeyer - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2004 - Elsevier
The relationship between climatic change and human evolution can be framed in terms of
three major hypotheses. A modern version of the long-held savanna hypothesis posits that …

[PDF][PDF] Extending the tooth mesowear method to extinct and extant equids

TM Kaiser, N Solounias - Geodiversitas, 2003 - doc.rero.ch
ABSTRACT A new approach of reconstructing ungulate diets, the mesowear method, was
introduced by Fortelius & Solounias (2000). Mesowear is based on facet development on …

Differential mesowear in occluding upper and lower molars: opening mesowear analysis for lower molars and premolars in hypsodont horses

TM Kaiser, M Fortelius - Journal of Morphology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
A new approach of reconstructing ungulate diet, the mesowear method, was recently
introduced by Fortelius and Solounias ([2000] Am Mus Novitat 3301: 1–36). Mesowear is …

Lothagam: a record of faunal change in the Late Miocene of East Africa

MG Leakey, CS Feibel, RL Bernor… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
Lothagam is a richly fossiliferous late Miocene site near the western shore of Lake Turkana,
northern Kenya. This site has yielded a diverse fauna documenting a chronological interval …

Pliocene and Quaternary regional uplift in western Turkey: the Gediz River terrace staircase and the volcanism at Kula

R Westaway, M Pringle, S Yurtmen, T Demir… - Tectonophysics, 2004 - Elsevier
Along the upper reaches of the Gediz River in western Turkey, in the eastern part of the
Aegean extensional province, the land surface has uplifted by∼ 400 m since the Middle …

Evolution of the family Equidae, subfamily Equinae, in North, central and south America, Eurasia and Africa during the plio-pleistocene

O Cirilli, H Machado, J Arroyo-Cabrales… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The family Equidae enjoys an iconic evolutionary record, especially the
genus Equus which is actively investigated by both paleontologists and molecular biologists …

A revised (earliest Vallesian) age for the hominoid-bearing locality of Can Mata 1 based on new magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data from Abocador de Can …

DM Alba, JM Robles, I Casanovas-Vilar… - Journal of Human …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Abocador de Can Mata (ACM) composite stratigraphic sequence (els Hostalets
de Pierola, Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula) has yielded a diverse primate …

New insights on the Early Pleistocene equids from Roca-Neyra (France, central Europe): implications for the Hipparion LAD and the Equus FAD in Europe

O Cirilli, RL Bernor, L Rook - Journal of Paleontology, 2021 - cambridge.org
We undertake a redescription of the equid sample from the Early Pleistocene of Roca-Neyra,
France. This locality has been recently calibrated at the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary …