The Lipovany and Mu?ín paleobotanical localities contain important floral associations within the tuff horizons, which were used for determination of subtropical to tropical climatic conditions during Early Miocene. Based on combination results from plagioclase biotite 40Ar/39Ar dating, age deposition is around 17.3Ma. For locality, single-grain convergent ages 17.49±0.54Ma 17.28±0.06Ma, obtain...

Abstract Winged seeds were recovered from two sites of the late early Miocene (Karpatian) flora Magyaregregy, Mecsek Mts, W Hungary. The are assigned to fossil-genus and species, Mecsekispermum gordonioides Hably Erdei gen. nov. et sp. nov., tentatively related family Theaceae. Based on overall character winged isodiametric surface pattern seed coat, most comparable with species Gordonia J. Ell...

lithological characteristics of the asmari formation in the burujen area are: pelagic foraminifera wackestone-packstone; bentic foraminifera echinid packstone; bentic foraminifera corallinaceapackstone; coral boundstone and echinid corallinacea packstone to grainstone; corallinacea boundstone; corallinacea bryozoa packstone; rniliolid echinid wackestone; and bioclastic wackestone. the examined ...

Mantis shrimps (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) are rather rare in the fossil record. Nineteen species have been assigned to Squillidae, of which 12 species have been recorded from the Miocene. We describe herein a squillid, Squilla taulinanus n. sp., from the Miocene of Taulignan, south-eastern France. The exceptionally well-preserved specimen is remarkable in apparently having abdominal somites 5–6 c...

The offshore Niger Delta provides a spectacular example of gravity collapse tectonics, but the timing shale mobilisation remains poorly understood. Here we present new information from western Delta, based on detailed interpretation 3D seismic volume, calibrated with biostratigraphic data exploration wells. study area is underlain by mobile shales containing thrust-fold anticlines, overlain >5 ...