These rocks overlie the Oligocene limestone in which the caves occur but have been removed locally by erosion. “The cave proprietors were claiming the boulder was a meteorite, ...

Late Oligocene subsidence at Sites 558 and 563 caused the local disappearance of a buliminid assemblage. Nuttallides umbonifera increased in abundance at the deepest locations (Sites 10, 119, 400; ...

The catarrhine fossil record subsequent to propliopithecoids was unknown except for isolated dentitions of the late-Oligocene Kamoyapithecus hamiltoni from Kenya 16 until the Afro-Arabian early ...

Profound environmental and faunal changes are associated with climatic deterioration during the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) roughly 34 million years ago. Primates are among the most ...

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Dental mesowear and microwear are used to determine diet in the palaeothere Plagiolophus minor from a sequence of four localities across the Eocene-Oligocene transition in Europe: La Débruge, ...