The Red Sandstone Group (RSG) in the Rukwa Rift Basin of southwestern Tanzania
represents one of the only well-exposed, fossiliferous Cretaceous–Paleogene continental …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

Silicified plant tissues (phytoliths) preserved in Late Cretaceous coprolites from India show
that at least five taxa from extant grass (Poaceae) subclades were present on the Indian …

In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …

Although Africa was south of the Tethys Sea and originally belonged to the Gondwana, its
paleobiogeographical history appears to have been distinct from those of both Gondwana …

Recent fossil discoveries, phylogenetic analyses, revised reconstructions of continental drift,
and accumulating molecular evidence have all yielded new information relating to …

The western branch of the East African Rift is composed of an arcuate succession of
elongate asymmetric basins, which differ in terms of interaction geometry, fault architecture …

Extinct crocodyliforms from the age of dinosaurs (Mesozoic Era) display an impressive range
of skeletal morphologies, suggesting a diversity of ecological roles not found in living …

The oldest Cenozoic mammalian assemblages in South America have been recovered from
levels of the Hansen Member of the Salamanca Formation, Punta Peligro locality in …

We define 17 African land mammal ages, or AFLMAs, covering the Cenozoic record of the
Afro-arabian continent, the planet's second largest land mass. While fossiliferous deposits …