The Friasian age is a period of geologic time (16.3–15.5 Ma) within the Early Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification of South America. It follows the Santacrucian and precedes the Colloncuran age.[1]
The Friasian age is a period of geologic time (16.3–15.5 Ma) within the Early Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification...
caiman that lived in South America during the Miocene epoch, from the Friasian to the Huayquerian in the SALMA classification. It is known from skull...
basin; the Early Miocene Santacrucian from the Santa Cruz Formation and Friasian from the Río Frías Formation and the Pleistocene Ensenadan from the La...
America. Fossils of Homalodotherium have been found in the Middle Miocene (Friasian in the SALMA classification) Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina and the...
Phorusrhacos (/ˌfɔːrəsˈrɑːkɒs/ FOR-əs-RAH-koss) is an extinct genus of giant flightless terror birds that inhabited South America during the Miocene epoch...
Patterson (1959). Fossils of the family were found in the Colhuehuapian to Friasian Pinturas, Sarmiento, Santa Cruz, Río Jeinemeiní and Collón Curá Formations...
Hirschfeld SE. 1985. Ground sloths from the Friasian La Venta Fauna, with additions to the pre-Friasian Coyaima Fauna of Colombia, South America. University...
Barinasuchus (meaning "Barinas crocodile," in reference to where the type material was found) is an extinct genus of sebecid mesoeucrocodylian. Its fossils...
an extinct genus of river dolphins from the Early Miocene (Deseadan to Friasian in the SALMA classification). The type species is H. raimondii, found in...
tree-dwelling species. This change happened progressively during the earlier Friasian stage. The transition towards more arid landscapes would have happened...
Megatheriidae. Thalassocninae may have diverged from Megatheriinae during the Friasian age of the Miocene around 16 mya. However, a 2018 analysis retains Thalassocninae...
to the Neogene period; Burdigalian to Langhian stages, Colloncuran and Friasian in the SALMA classification, and has a maximum thickness of 440 metres...
Gryposuchus is an extinct genus of gavialid crocodilian. Fossils have been found from Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and the Peruvian Amazon. The...
Brontornis is an extinct genus of giant bird that inhabited Argentina during the Early to Middle Miocene. Its taxonomic position is highly controversial...
The Viche Formation is a Langhian (Friasian to Colloncuran in the SALMA classification) geologic formation of the Borbón Basin in northwestern Ecuador...
specifically within the SALMA classification in South America. It follows the Friasian and precedes the Laventan age. The age is named after the Collón Curá Formation...
Alto Río Cisnes Fossil Fauna (Río Frías Formation, Early-Middle Miocene, Friasian SALMA): A keystone and paradigmatic vertebrate assemblage of the South...
Tinguirirican South American land mammal age (SALMA), together with the Friasian named after the Río Frías Formation of the Aysén Region, the only ages...
Theosodon is an extinct genus of litoptern mammal from the Early to Middle Miocene of South America. Theosodon was long-legged with a long neck resembling...
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Victoria Formation of the Honda Group in Colombia and date back to the Friasian and Laventan regional South American land mammal ages of the Middle Miocene...
Hirschfield, Sue Ellen (1985). "Ground Sloths from the Friasian la Venta Fauna: With Additions to the Pre-Friasian Coyaima Fauna of Colombia, South America". University...
Hiskatherium is an extinct genus of small ground sloth from the Middle Miocene (Friasian to Mayoan) Honda Group of Bolivia. The type species H. saintandrei was...
in the Americas, primarily among the Santacrucian (17.5–16.3 mya) and Friasian (16.3–15.5) sites of Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Brazil. Extensive...
classification in South America. It follows the Colhuehuapian and precedes the Friasian age. The age is named after the Santa Cruz Formation in the Austral/Magallanes...
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