An integrated study including magnetostratigraphy, larger benthic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy is presented herein. This work was performed in shallow marine siliciclastics rich foraminifera, around the Ypresian/Lutetian boundary Ésera valley (South-Central Pyrenees). Although content studied interval low, not allowing a precise Y/L to be recognised, taxa found are en...

BACKGROUND Phorusrhacidae was a clade including middle-sized to giant terrestrial carnivorous birds, known mainly from the Cenozoic of South America, but also occurring in the Plio-Pleistocene of North America and the Eocene of Africa. Previous reports of small phorusrhacids in the Paleogene of Europe have been dismissed as based on non-phorusrhacid material. METHODOLOGY we have re-examined s...

Partial skeletons of two new fossil whales, Artiocetus clavis and Rodhocetus balochistanensis, are among the oldest known protocetid archaeocetes. These came from early Lutetian age (47 million years ago) strata in eastern Balochistan Province, Pakistan. Both have an astragalus and cuboid in the ankle with characteristics diagnostic of artiodactyls; R. balochistanensis has virtually complete fo...

The Eocene deposits of Egypt provide a wide variety shallow marine facies and fossil assemblages, allowing paleoenvironmental reconstructions in this warmhouse climate interval. Forty-three rock samples have been collected from two middle sections, exposed at southeast Beni-Suef area northern Egypt. studied outcrops are lithologicsally subdivided into units named base to top as follows: (1) the...

A new genus and species of omomyid primate is described from the middle Eocene (Lutetian) Lülük Member Uzunçar?idere Formation, Orhaniye Basin, north-central Anatolia, Turkey. This first to be reported vast area between Switzerland Pakistan. The taxon currently represented by a single dentary fragment, limiting scope morphological comparisons that can made with related taxa. Nevertheless, its d...

Despite the large number of magnetostratigraphic studies in South Pyrenean Basin aiming to calibrate basin chronostratigraphy and biostratigraphic scales, Eastern Jaca remains unexplored from this perspective, its relation with Ainsa is not fully understood. In work we contribute new data 950m thick Las Bellostas section, located northern hinge Balzes anticline. Well-proven primary signal (posi...