Early Pleistocene integration of the Yellow River I: Detrital-zircon evidence from the North China Plain

The Plio‐Pleistocene site of Tegelen in the Netherlands contains some of the oldest evidence for the presence of the medium‐sized pantherine felid of the European Pleistocene, Panthera gombaszoegensis , based on published fragmentary dental specimens. Measurements of these specimens, together with those from other localities, suggest that earlier representatives of the species are small, but one of a small number of previously unstudied specimens from the site now indicates the presence of a larger pantherine individual. Such a size difference could point to the presence of a second species, or suggest that the Tegelen deposits encompass a longer time span than has been supposed. Either of these would have serious implications; the first would increase the complexity of the early Pleistocene carnivore guild, and the second would threaten the status of Tegelen as a type site in the European Pleistocene biostratigraphic scheme. However, consideration of the size range in sexed samples of extant pantherines in conjunction with a re‐examination of the size distributions in the hypodigm of P. gombaszoegensis suggests that sexual dimorphism offers a more plausible interpretation.

Plio-Pleistocene

Early Pleistocene

Guild

Carnivore

10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00400.x

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Temporal Changes of Plio—Pleistocene Ostracoda from the Takanabe Formation, Miyazaki Group, Southwest Japan

Paleontological Research (2011)

Hokuto Iwatani Toshiaki Irizuki Takashi Goto

A total of 145 ostracode taxa were obtained from the upper part of the Plio—Pleistocene Takanabe Formation, Miyazaki Group, in the northern part of the Miyazaki Plain, Southwest Japan. Most of the assemblages are extant temperate and subtropical water species that have been reported from the recent western North Pacific Ocean around Southwest Japan, the Tsushima Strait, and the shelves off China. Four ostracode bioassociations (UA, MA, LA, and DA) and two biofacies (SF and DF) were discriminated on the basis of Rand Q-mode cluster analyses. Biofacies SF is divided into six sub-biofacies (SF1–6). The results revealed at least two transgressions and one regression during the deposition of the upper part of the Takanabe Formation. The sea-level fluctuation at approximately 2.6 Ma inferred in this study is extremely large compared with the glacio-eustatic sea-level fluctuations during the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene, suggesting that local tectonic movement in the study site during the deposition of the upper part of the studied interval at ∼2.6 Ma may have led to the large sea-level fluctuation. This paper also includes descriptions of two new species, Acanthocythereis abei sp. nov. and Acanthocythereis takanabensis sp. nov.

Plio-Pleistocene

Early Pleistocene

Neogene

Deposition

10.2517/1342-8144-15.4.269

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Bioclimatic analysis of rodent palaeofaunas reveals severe climatic changes in Southwestern Europe during the Plio-Pleistocene

Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology (2007)

Manuel Hérnandez Fernández María Sierra Pablo Peláez‐Campomanes

Plio-Pleistocene

Paleoclimatology