The widespread assumption that the origin of polar marine faunas is linked to the onset of major global cooling in the Late Eocene-Early Oligocene is being increasingly challenged. The Antarctic fossil record in particular is suggesting that some modern Southern Ocean taxa may have Early Eocene or even Paleocene origins, i.e. well within the Early Cenozoic greenhouse world. A global analysis of...

An early Badenian (middle Miocene) Buccinoidea (Colubrariidae, Eosiphonidae, Tudiclidae, Fasciolariidae, Melongenidae, Pisaniidae and genus Euthriofusus) assemblage – that was collected from Coşteiu de Sus, Lăpugiu Nemeşeşti (W Romania), stored in the collection of Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest is revisited. Fasciolaria moravica Hoernes et Auinger, 1890 considered as a junior synon...