Drivers of the artiodactyl turnover in insular western Europe at the Eocene–Oligocene Transition

R Weppe, FL Condamine, G Guinot… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Simultaneously investigating the effects of abiotic and biotic factors on diversity dynamics is
essential to understand the evolutionary history of clades. The Grande Coupure …

Dental anatomy, phylogenetic relationships and paleoecology of Orhaniyeia nauta (Metatheria, Anatoliadelphyidae), a Gondwanan component of the insular Eocene …

KC Beard, PMC Coster, F Ocakoğlu, A Licht… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
Two new specimens of the anatoliadelphyid metatherian Orhaniyeia nauta are described
from the middle Eocene Uzunçarşıdere Formation in the Orhaniye Basin, north-central …

Phylogenomics illuminates the evolutionary history of wild silkmoths in space and time (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)

R Rougerie, A Cruaud, P Arnal, L Ballesteros-Mejia… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Wild silkmoths (Saturniidae) are one of the most emblematic and most studied families of
moths. Yet, the absence of a robust phylogenetic framework based on a comprehensive …

An unexpected late paroxyclaenid (Mammalia, Cimolesta) out of Europe: dental evidence from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills, Pakistan

F Solé, SRH Baqri, N Iqbal, G Roohi… - Papers in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Eight isolated mammal molars were discovered in lower Oligocene deposits of the Bugti
Hills, Pakistan (Paali Nala, DB‐C2; lower Chitarwata Formation). Because of their unusual …

Small artiodactyls with tapir-like teeth from the middle Eocene of the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China

B Bai, YQ Wang, JM Theodor, J Meng - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Artiodactyls diversified during the Eocene and Oligocene in North America and Europe after
their first Holarctic appearance at the beginning of the Eocene. However, the relationships …

Additions to the late Eocene Sungulu mammal fauna in Easternmost Anatolia and the Eocene-Oligocene transition at the periphery of Balkanatolia

G Métais, P Coster, A Licht, F Ocakoğlu… - Comptes Rendus …, 2023 - avesis.ogu.edu.tr
The Eocene-Oligocene transition marks a period of dramatic global climatic change
correlated with pronounced mammalian faunal change. Fossil evidence is indispensable for …

Late Eocene to Early Miocene environments, vegetation and climate in Southeastern France documented by palynology

JP Suc, S Fauquette, SM Popescu… - Palaeogeography …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT) is crucial for understanding the climate
evolution of the Earth but is poorly documented in the terrestrial domains. A pollen record …

Neogene climatic fluctuations and poor connectivity with the centres of diversity shaped the Western Palaearctic net-winged beetle fauna

M Motyka, D Kusy, R Bilkova… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Only 22 net-winged beetle species (Elateroidea: Lycidae) are known from the Western
Palaearctic region (WPR), ie less than 0.5% of the global lycid diversity and much fewer than …

Migration of Fupingopollenites in the Cenozoic: Contribution from Turkish palynoflora and paleoclimatic implications

MS Kayseri-Özer, F Akgün, A Tuncer, E Tekin… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fupingopollenites, an extinct plant, has been suggested to belong to a family that originated
in eastern Asia, where it was recovered from the early middle Eocene. It developed …

Rapid colonization and diversification of a large-bodied mammalian herbivore clade in an insular context: New embrithopods from the Eocene of Balkanatolia

G Métais, P Coster, M Kaya, A Licht, K Miller… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2024 - Springer
Embrithopoda is an extinct clade of herbivorous placental mammals belonging to the
afrotherian subclade Paenungulata. Early in their evolutionary history, embrithopods …