Posts treating: "Miocene Epoch"
Wednesday, 02 December 2015
This picture is of a Castanea kubinyi plant fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Plants like this existed at the time of the Miocene epoch of the Neogene Period. The fossil was found in S. Angelo Senigallia Marche Italy.
Image taken in June
Here is a picture of a Parvamussium cristatellum (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912) bivalve fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Miocene Epoch of Neogene Period. At the museum it was labeled as Amussium cristatum aka Pecten cristatum (Bavay, 1905).
Image taken in June 2014.
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An interesting fossil shown in this picture is of an Oreopithecus bambolii primate. The fossil can be found at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Miocene Epoch of Neogene Period. Fossil was found in Baccinello Basin located in Tuscany, Italy. The area was known for its lignite mines. An intact Oreopithecus fossil skeleton
Here is a picture of a Castanea kubinyi plant leaf fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Plants like this existed at the time of the Miocene Epoch of the Neogene Period. The fossil was found in S. Angelo, Senigaglia, Marche Italy.
Image taken in June
Here is a picture of a Granchio indeterminato crab fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Miocene Epoch of Neogene Period. Fossil was found in Argentina.
Image taken in June
Here is a picture of an unidentified insect fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Miocene Epoch of Neogene Period.
Image taken in June
Picture of a display at the Red Rock Canyon State park in California, USA as of October 2013. It shows a mammal like elephant tusk called gomphothere. The fossils are from the Claredonian era (late Miocene epoch - Neogene Period) and were found in the Dove Spring Formation.Learn more about fossils from this area: http://inyo.coffeecup.com/site/redrock/redrockfossils.htmlThanks to Kenny for the picture.Image of more
Another group of pictures from my folder clean up feature this Chesapecten nefrens pelecypod from the Calvert formation of Maryland. I collected this 25 years ago while on a trip to Calvert Cliffs in Maryland. It was found in the Choptank formation while staying at Matoaka Cottages.Left valve Right valveRight profilePosteriorInterior of both valves. The white paint and ink lettering were a short lived attempt by my younger self to catalog my fossil collection at the time. In this case the "CC" [...]
Notes from the Museum of the Earth [2010-07-28 21:07:00]
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Neogene
Our fossil for this week belonged to one of the most fearsome predators ever to swim our planet’s oceans. Carcharocles megalodon was a massive shark that likely exceeded 50 feet in length as an adult, making it the largest known shark species. It is believed that C. megalodon preyed upon other large marine animals, including whales!Like modern sharks, C. megalodon had numerous rows of teeth to rapidly replace those that fell out of its mouth. These teeth, along with rarely found skeletal [...]
AKA the double-winner (so far) for this year's most impressive name and most dramatic media image. Once more, I wish I still had my UMich access to journals. This (surely exaggerated?) monster is Leviathan melvillei (Lambert et al., 2010), a Miocene sperm whale from Peru with teeth in both jaws. Huge teeth, at that, estimated as the largest cetacean teeth known. And, of course, since no news story about a prehistoric monster is complete without saying "OMG it ate dinosaurs/mammoths/big [...]
Sometimes palaeontologists when naming a new species got inspired by myths and legends told in ancient and modern stories. A recent example is a new whale from Miocene sediments of the Peruvian desert, described as a new genus and species: Leviathan melvillei, in honour of Moby-Dick author Melville and the mythical monster mentioned in the bible.The 14m long animal, related to the modern sperm whale, has an ulterior particularity worthy of its name, 29 teeth's up to 0,9m long, thought to be [...]
Inside the www.foraminifera.eu Project [2010-05-26 14:50:00]
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(35 visits) Neogene
The Miocene epoch lasted from 23.0-5.3 Mya BC and has foraminiferal faunas closely related to recent ones. The genus Florilus is common in Miocene sediments of the shelf. Some authors placed them in Nonion.Florilus boueanum (d´Orbigny, 1846),Stade, Germany, Pre North Sea, Middle MioceneFlorilus boueanum (d´Orbigny, 1846),Gram, Denmark, Pre North Sea, MioceneFlorilus grateloupi (d´Orbigny, 1826),Calvert Cliffs Bed 10, Maryland, USA, MioceneFlorilus chesapeakensis Gibson, 1983,Calvert Cliffs [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology on May 22nd, 2010:
Cenozoic Era : Pliocene Epoch : The Piacenzian Age [ Palaeos Timescale ]
Cenozoic Era : Pliocene Stratigraphy [ Palaeos Timescale ]
Cenozoic Era : The Miocene Epoch [ Palaeos Timescale ]
Cenozoic Era : Neogene Period Geography [ Palaeos Timescale ]
Cenozoic Era : The Oligocene Epoch [ Palaeos
En el ultimo numero de Nature se ha descrito una nueva especie, genero y familia de focas del Mioceno inferior de Canadá, bautizada Puijila darwini, de la familia Puijilae. Lo curioso es que, por la anatomía de la nueva foca, debería de tener una forma de vida parecida a las nutrias de agua dulce, siendo una cazadora acuática activa. Pero a pesar de lo que dice la web de El Mundo y como bien comenta el Paleofreak, no es un antepasado directo de las focas actuales, ya que ya habían otros [...]
A semi-aquatic Arctic mammalian carnivore from the Miocene epoch and origin of Pinnipedia. 2009. N. Rybczynski, et al., Nature 458: 1021-1024.The 24 to 20 million-year-old fossil skeleton of Puijila darwini was found in the summer of 2007 during a fieldwork expedition on Devon Island, Nunavut, in a meteor impact crater. It resembled an otter, but a skull that is more closely related to seals.
