Learn how newly discovered Purgatorius fossils in Colorado’s Denver Basin are filling gaps in the Paleocene fossil record and ...

Organic-cemented benthic agglutinated foraminifera are a highly dominant component of flysch-type DWAF assemblages, while agglutinated foraminifera that use calcareous cement are rare or almost absent ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 9-27 ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

A study of boron/calcium ratios in the shells of marine plankton suggests that the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a rapid global warming and ocean acidification event 55.6 million years ago that ...

The Paleocene is a geological epoch within the Paleogene Period, spanning approximately 66 to 56 million years ago, immediately following the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary. It is defined ...

Irish explorer Providence Resources reported Monday that new seismic data indicates the presence of a significant Paleocene deepwater channelized system in the northern Porcupine Basin, offshore ...

Mammals have the largest brain to body size ratio among vertebrates, but how did this unprecedented encephalization emerge during their evolution? A new study by Ornella Bertrand and colleagues ...

A recently discovered fossil of a giant penguin with a body length of around 150 centimeters has been described in a new article. The new find dates back to the Paleocene era and, with an age of ...