"Fossil mammals" refers to the remains or traces of ancient mammals that have been preserved in rocks or other geological formations over long periods of time.
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«fossil»
«mammals»
Sentences with «fossil mammals»
- Working in the Zallah Oasis in Libya's Sirt Basin — an area that has «sporadically» produced fossil vertebrates since the 1960s — the team discovered a highly diverse and unique group of fossil mammals dating to the Oligocene, the final epoch of the Paleogene period, a time marked by a broad diversity of animals that would seem strange to us today, but also development of species critical to human evolution. (sciencedaily.com)
- Specifically, after the analysis involving microscopic techniques and virtual models developed by the UA researcher, carious lesions caused by carbohydrates, present in plants, were found in the dental remains discovered at the La Brea Tar Pits site in Los Angeles, California, described by Alejandro Romero as «one of the most paradigmatic sites to study fossil mammals from the Pleistocene in North America.» (sciencedaily.com)
- He studies fossil mammals from the Late Cretaceous to the early Eocene with particular focus on two events that are very significant in mammalian and early primate evolution. (nycep.org)
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