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Largest mammal 'Paraceratherium' to ever walk on Earth was a mixture of rhino and giraffe, researchers claim

Paraceratherium, primarily living in Asia during the Oligocene epoch, has been deemed the largest ever land mammal in the ...
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Two new genera and species of Oligocene spikefishes (Tetraodontiformes:Triacanthodidae), the first fossils of the Hollardiinae and Triacanthodinae / James C. Tyler ... [et al.]

Two new genera and species of spikefishes from the Menilitic Formation (late Tethys Sea) of the Upper Oligocene of Poland represent the first fossils of the two subfamilies of the tetraodontiform ...
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Evidence for two sympatric sirenian species (Mammalia, Tethytheria) in the early Oligocene of Central Europe

Manja Voss, Oliver Hampe, Evidence for two sympatric sirenian species (Mammalia, Tethytheria) in the early Oligocene of Central Europe, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 91, No. 2 (2017), pp. 337-367 ...
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Climate transition at the Eocene–Oligocene influenced by bathymetric changes to the Atlantic–Arctic oceanic gateways

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 17 (April 26, 2022), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) The Eocene–Oligocene Transition (∼33.9 Ma) marks the largest step ...
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A New Specimen of Behemotops proteus (Order Desmostylia) from the Marine Oligocene of Washington

Ray, Clayton Edward, Domning, D. P., and McKenna, M. C. 1994. "A New Specimen of Behemotops proteus (Order Desmostylia) from the Marine Oligocene of Washington." In Contributions in Marine Mammal ...