Understanding past climatic changes allows us to better understand how our planet will evolve in the future. One important source of information on paleoclimate is the analysis of …
The Pliocene epoch (5.3–2.6 Ma) represents the most recent geological interval in which global temperatures were several degrees warmer than today and is therefore considered …
K Drost, D Chew, JA Petrus, F Scholze… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new approach to laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) U‐Pb dating of carbonates based on selection and pooling of pixels from 2‐D …
Abstract The Cradle of Humankind cave sites in South Africa preserve fossil evidence of four early hominin taxa: Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus sediba, Paranthropus …
Radiometric U–Pb ages are presented for the Riversleigh World Heritage fossil mammal site in northwestern Queensland, Australia. The ages are determined on speleothems which are …
The historical clade “Protorosauria” represents an important group of archosauromorph reptiles that had a wide geographic distribution between the Late Permian and Late …
SG Lucas - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2018 - lyellcollection.org
The most extensive Permian tetrapod (amphibian and reptile) fossil records from the western USA (New Mexico to Texas) and South Africa have been used to define 11 land vertebrate …
L Gibert, GR Scott, D Scholz, A Budsky… - Journal of human …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cueva Victoria has provided remains of more than 90 species of fossil vertebrates, including a hominin phalanx, and the only specimens of the African cercopithecid Theropithecus …