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An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years

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The anthracotheres from northern Junggar Basin and their palaeoclimatic significance in relation to the Tibetan Plateau

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Comparisons of Schansitherium tafeli with Samotherium boissieri (Giraffidae, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Gansu Province, China

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Paleoecology of Pleistocene mammals and paleoclimatic change in South China: Evidence from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes

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Large-scale ruminant genome sequencing provides insights into their evolution and distinct traits

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Biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and geochronology of lower Miocene Aoerban strata in central Inner Mongolia

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Micromeryx? eiselei—A new moschid species from Steinheim am Albuch, Germany, and the first comprehensive description of moschid cranial material from the Miocene of Central Europe

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A new giraffid (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Pecora) from the late Miocene of Spain, and the evolution of the sivathere-samothere lineage

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A New Species of Prolibytherium (Ruminantia, Mammalia) from Pakistan, and the Functional Implications of an Atypical Atlanto-Occipital Morphology

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Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth–Death Process

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Fossil evidence and stages of elongation of theGiraffa camelopardalisneck

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The Cervical Osteology of Okapia johnstoni and Giraffa camelopardalis

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Systematics and Evolution of the Miocene Three-Horned Palaeomerycid Ruminants (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla)

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Bayesian Inference of Sampled Ancestor Trees for Epidemiology and Fossil Calibration

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Behavioural leads in evolution: evidence from the fossil record

(2013) Adrian M. Lister   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Distributions of Cranial Pathologies Provide Evidence for Head-Butting in Dome-Headed Dinosaurs (Pachycephalosauridae)

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A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

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New 40Ar/39Ar dating results from the Shanwang Basin, eastern China: Constraints on the age of the Shanwang Formation and associated biota

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Evolution of ruminant headgear: a review

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Necks-for-sex or competing browsers? A critique of ideas on the evolution of giraffe

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Systematics and palaeoecology of Ruminantia (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (southern Germany, Northern Alpine Foreland Basin)

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The genus Hispanomeryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Moschidae) and its bearing on musk deer phylogeny and systematics

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Dietary interpretation and paleoecology of herbivores from Pikermi and Samos (late Miocene of Greece)

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C4 expansion in the central Inner Mongolia during the latest Miocene and early Pliocene

(2009) Chunfu Zhang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A new species of Megacerini (Cervidae, Artiodactyla) from the Late Miocene of Taralyk-Cher, Tuva (Russia), and remarks on the relationships of the group

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Evolution of weaponry in female bovids

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