Abstract Ray-finned fishes comprise nearly half of extant vertebrate species and include several ancient lineages with fossil records that stretch over 200 Myr in time. One these old clades, the sturgeons paddlefishes, is distributed across Northern Hemisphere includes some largest known freshwater fishes. Yet, record this lineage (Acipenseriformes) poor compared to similarly ray-finned fish cl...

The Paleogene evolution of the NW margin African Plate (Western External Rif Zone) was studied by means multidisciplinary analyses twenty-one stratigraphic logs, including tectofacies recognition, petro-mineralogical results, and thicknesses analysis. Four intervals were recognized separated three unconformities coarsely aligned with Cretaceous–Paleogene, Eocene–Oligocene Oligocene–Miocene boun...