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Miocene epoch

Geochronological insights of middle miocene primates and vertebrate fauna of Ramnagar (J&K, India): Integrating litho- and magnetostratigraphy

Deepak Choudhary, Christopher C. Gilbert, Christopher J. Campisano, Daniel J. Peppe, Mohammad Arif, Sarvendra Pratap Singh, Kahsay Tesfay, Biren A. Patel, Wasim Abass Wazir, Rohit Kumar, Binita Phartiyal, Ningthoujam Premjit Singh, Kongrailatpam Milankumar Sharma, Rajeev Patnaik

published 26 Feb 2026

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Postcranial anatomy of the Late Miocene Eurasian hornless rhinocerotid Chilotherium

Panagiotis Kampouridis, Georgia Svorligkou, Nikolai Spassov, Madelaine Böhme

published 05 Dec 2025

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Phylogenomics of sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): Cloud forests and Pliocene extinction explain the timing and spread of an iconic South American radiation

Max R. Bangs, Alexandre Reis Percequillo, Víctor Pacheco, Scott J. Steppan

published 04 Nov 2025

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Evolutionary history of the snooks: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the genus Centropomus

Gabryele Malcher, Thamires Oliveira, Paulo Ronaldo Ferreira, Lucila Melo, Patrícia Mendonça, Omar Dominguez-Dominguez, Arturo Angulo, Claudia Patricia Ornelas-García, Rocío Rodiles-Hernández, Péricles Sena do Rêgo, Juliana Araripe

published 09 Oct 2025

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A new giraffe ossicone from Wolf Camp, Tunggur Formation, Inner Mongolia suggests a new genus in Bohlinini (Artiodactyla, Giraffidae)

Xiaoming Wang, Nikos Solounias, Su-kuan Hou, Lu Li, Yukimitsu Tomida

published 05 Aug 2025

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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico

Kleyton M. Cantalice, Hugo E. Salgado-Garrido, Erick Sosa-Rodríguez, Kay Vilchis-Zapata, Gerardo González-Barba, on behalf of the Underwater Archaeological Atlas project

published 06 Feb 2025

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Buronius manfredschmidi—A new small hominid from the early late Miocene of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)

M. Böhme, D. R. Begun, A. C. Holmes, T. Lechner, G. Ferreira

published 07 Jun 2024

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An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography

Zixuan Guo, Naoki Kohno

published 15 Feb 2023

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The exceptionally high diversity of small carnivorans from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)

Nikolaos Kargopoulos, Alberto Valenciano, Juan Abella, Panagiotis Kampouridis, Thomas Lechner, Madelaine Böhme

published 13 Jul 2022

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Unexpected cranial sexual dimorphism in the tragulid Dorcatherium naui based on material from the middle to late Miocene localities of Eppelsheim and Hammerschmiede (Germany)

Josephina Hartung, Madelaine Böhme

published 18 May 2022

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Late middle Miocene caviomorph rodents from Tarapoto, Peruvian Amazonia

Myriam Boivin, Laurent Marivaux, Walter Aguirre-Diaz, Aldo Benites-Palomino, Guillaume Billet, François Pujos, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, Narla S. Stutz, Julia V. Tejada-Lara, Rafael M. Varas-Malca, Anne H. Walton, Pierre-Olivier Antoine

published 03 Nov 2021

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No evidence for parallel evolution of cursorial limb adaptations among Neogene South American native ungulates (SANUs)

Darin A. Croft, Malena Lorente

published 17 Aug 2021

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Reassessment of the enigmatic ruminant Miocene genus Amphimoschus Bourgeois, 1873 (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Pecora)

Bastien Mennecart, Grégoire Métais, Loïc Costeur, Léonard Ginsburg, Gertrud E. Rössner

published 29 Jan 2021

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