The late Miocene evolution of the Mediterranean Basin is characterized by major changes in
connectivity, climate and tectonic activity resulting in unprecedented environmental and …

What process triggered the Mediterranean Sea restriction remains debated since the
discovery of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). Recent hypotheses infer that the MSC …

The evolution of the present-day African savannah fauna has been substantially influenced
by the dispersal of Eurasian ancestors into Africa. The ancestors evolved endemically …

Theraphosidae is the most diversified family of mygalomorph spiders, commonly known as
tarantulas. Two genera inhabit the Mediterranean region: Chaetopelma in the east and …

A series of phylogeographic studies in the Maghreb identified a repeated pattern of deep
genetic divergence between an eastern (Tunisia) and western (Morocco) lineage for several …

Benthic foraminiferal, sedimentological, and stable isotope analyses performed on early
Zanclean sediments from Alboran Basin ODP Site 976 and southern Spanish land-based …

The gerbillid Myocricetodon is mainly known from the Miocene of Africa and Asia, but some
small samples of this genus have been identified in southwestern Europe, interpreted as …

Abstract The site of Tighennif (= Ternifine) in Northern Algeria, well-known for its Homo
mauritanicus (= Homo rhodesiensis?) remains, and probably dating to the late Calabrian …

The Miocene is an essential period in the configuration of the present-day relief of the Betic
Cordillera and the South Iberian continental margin, which determined the structure and …

ABSTRACT The late Miocene and Pliocene Middle Awash fish fauna is one of the earliest
known Neogene fish faunas in eastern Africa and is the earliest known from the Horn of …