Paleogene fossil birds

G Mayr, Mayr - 2009 - Springer
The first edition of this book was written at a time when comprehensive analyses of
molecular sequence data just began to provide a robust framework for the interrelationships …

Phylogenetic systematics of the North American fossil caninae (Carnivora: Canidae)

RH Tedford, X Wang, BE Taylor - Bulletin of the American Museum of …, 2009 - BioOne
The canid subfamily Caninae includes all the living canids and their most recent fossil
relatives. Their sister taxon is the Borophaginae with which they share an important …

Large temperature drop across the Eocene–Oligocene transition in central North America

A Zanazzi, MJ Kohn, BJ MacFadden, DO Terry - nature, 2007 - nature.com
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition towards a cool climate (∼ 33.5 million years ago)
was one of the most pronounced climate events during the Cenozoic era. The marine record …

Cenozoic paleoclimate on land in North America

GJ Retallack - The Journal of Geology, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
Paleotemperature and paleoprecipitation over the past 40 m. yr. can be inferred from the
degree of chemical weathering and depth of carbonate nodules in paleosols of Oregon …

The Chañares Formation: a window to a Middle Triassic tetrapod community

AC Mancuso, LC Gaetano, JM Leardi, F Abdala… - Lethaia, 2014 - idunn.no
The Chañares Formation is known worldwide for its diverse and well-preserved Ladinian
non-marine tetrapod assemblage, including a wide variety of archosauriform reptiles …

Paleosols and ichnofossils of the White River Formation of Colorado: Insight into soil ecosystems of the North American Midcontinent during the Eocene-Oligocene …

DI Hembree, ST Hasiotis - Palaios, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Exposures of the upper Eocene to middle Oligocene White River Formation in northeastern
Colorado contain ichnofossil-rich paleosols in a meandering alluvial system. The …

Effect of paleosol formation on rare earth element signatures in fossil bone

CA Metzger, DO Terry Jr, DE Grandstaff - Geology, 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The rare earth element (REE) content of fossil bones was analyzed and compared with the
degree of ancient pedogenic development and depositional environments from several …

Paleopedology of the Chadron Formation of Northwestern Nebraska: implications for paleoclimatic change in the North American midcontinent across the Eocene …

DO Terry Jr - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2001 - Elsevier
The Big Cottonwood Creek Member is a newly recognized lithostratigraphic unit of the
Chadron Formation of northwestern Nebraska. I measured 23 superimposed paleosol …

The Lower Jurassic Hanson Formation of the Transantarctic Mountains: implications for the Antarctic sector of the Gondwana plate margin

DH Elliot, D Larsen, CM Fanning, TH Fleming… - Geological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The Hanson Formation, Antarctica, consists of interbedded sandstones and tuffaceous rocks
of Early Jurassic age. The sandstones, pebbly to medium-grained, range between quartzo …

Cenozoic Exhumation Across the High Plains of Southeastern Colorado from (U-Th)/He Thermochronology

SJ Kainz, LD Abbott, RM Flowers, A Olsson… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Colorado's High Plains stand at anomalously high elevations (~ 1300–2100 m) for
their continental interior setting, but when and why this region became elevated is poorly …