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Pliocene epoch

Where did the river go? Testing the hypothesis of rivers discharging into the Gulf of Sirt (East Mediterranean) during the late Pleistocene

Barbara Mauz, Esam Abdulsamad, Saleh Emhanna, Noureddine Elmejdoub, Moez Mansoura, Michael Rogerson

published 08 Oct 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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Orbital and suborbital temperature variability in the central Mediterranean across the Pliocene/Pleistocene transition

Elena Zanola, Teresa Rodrigues, Sergio Bonomo, Patrizia Ferretti, Eliana Fornaciari, Agata Di Stefano, Alessandro Incarbona, Nereo Preto, Isabella Raffi, Luca Capraro

published 26 Dec 2024

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Diversification of Amazonian spiny tree rats in genus Makalata (Rodentia, Echimyidae): Cryptic diversity, geographic structure and drivers of speciation

Cleuton Lima Miranda, Izeni Pires Farias, Maria Nazareth F. Da Silva, Alexandre Antonelli, Arielli Fabrício Machado, Rafael N. Leite, Mario Da Silva Nunes, Tadeu Gomes De Oliveira, Julio Cesar Pieczarka

published 15 Dec 2022

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A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of voles and lemmings (Rodentia: Arvicolinae): Evolutionary and taxonomic implications

Natalia I. Abramson, Semyon Yu. Bodrov, Olga V. Bondareva, Evgeny A. Genelt-Yanovskiy, Tatyana V. Petrova

published 19 Nov 2021

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Possible species-flock scenario for the evolution of the cyprinid genus Capoeta (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) within late Neogene lake systems of the Armenian Highland

Anna Ayvazyan, Davit Vasilyan, Madelaine Böhme

published 08 May 2019

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The first record of albanerpetontid amphibians (Amphibia: Albanerpetontidae) from East Asia

Ryoko Matsumoto, Susan E. Evans

published 03 Jan 2018

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Diversification dynamics, species sorting, and changes in the functional diversity of marine benthic gastropods during the Pliocene-Quaternary at temperate western South America

Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, Sven N. Nielsen

published 26 Oct 2017

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Extreme strontium concentrations reveal specific biomineralization pathways in certain coccolithophores with implications for the Sr/Ca paleoproductivity proxy

Michaël Hermoso, Benjamin Lefeuvre, Fabrice Minoletti, Marc de Rafélis

published 16 Oct 2017

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The first darter (Aves: Anhingidae) fossils from India (late Pliocene)

Thomas Stidham, Rajeev Patnaik, Kewal Krishan, Bahadur Singh, Abhik Ghosh, Ankita Singla, Simran S. Kotla

published 24 May 2017

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The Biogeographic South-North Divide of Polygonatum (Asparagaceae Tribe Polygonateae) within Eastern Asia and Its Recent Dispersals in the Northern Hemisphere

Jia-Jian Wang, Yong-Ping Yang, Hang Sun, Jun Wen, Tao Deng, Ze-Long Nie, Ying Meng

published 03 Nov 2016

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Evolution of a Planktonic Foraminifer during Environmental Changes in the Tropical Oceans

Yurika Ujiié, Yoshiyuki Ishitani

published 17 Feb 2016

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Phylogeography of a Morphologically Cryptic Golden Mole Assemblage from South-Eastern Africa

Samantha Mynhardt, Sarita Maree, Illona Pelser, Nigel C. Bennett, Gary N. Bronner, John W. Wilson, Paulette Bloomer

published 18 Dec 2015

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