Phylogenetic relationships of Chanidae (Teleostei: Gonorynchiformes) as impacted by Dastilbe moraesi, from the Sanfranciscana basin, Early Cretaceous of Brazil [PDF]
Fossil gonorynchiform fishes range from the Lower Cretaceous to the early Miocene, and are represented by a few dozen living species. The order is currently divided into two major clades: Gonorynchoidei, which includes the families Gonorynchidae and ...
Bockmann, Flávio A. +3 more
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Mass mortality events of autochthonous faunas in a Lower Cretaceous Gondwanan Lagerstätte
Mass mortality events are unusual in the Crato Formation. Although mayflies’ accumulations have been previously reported from that unit, they lacked crucial stratigraphic data.
Arianny P. Storari +4 more
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Chalcosicya maya n. sp, a new Mexican species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumoplinae) and its implications for morphology and biogeography [PDF]
Chalcosicya maya, new species, (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) is described and the species key of Blake (1951) is modified to accommodate it. This is the first known mainland species of this previously Antillean genus.
Flowers, R. Wills
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Cretaceous Horse flies and their phylogenetic significance (Diptera: Tabanidae) [PDF]
Popularly known as horse flies or deer flies, Tabanidae, has 4.400 described species distributed worldwide. Most of the females are hematophagous, but several species are also flower visitors.
Daniel Dias Dornelas do Carmo +3 more
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This paper presents the results of a petrographic and diagenetic study of the laminated limestones of the upper part of the Aptian to Albian Crato Formation, northeast of Brazil.
Flávia Araújo de Arruda Cabral +5 more
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New record of Abelisauroid Theropods from the Bauru group (upper cretaceous), São Paulo State, Brazil [PDF]
Isolated bones of abelisauroid theropods from the Bauru Group (Late Cretaceous, Brazil), are described. They correspond to three individuals represented by fused ischia and part of the ilium, a partial axis, and a right fi bula, respectively. The fossils
Iori, Fabiano V. +2 more
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Há um sistema culinário do milho no Cariri?/ Is there a culinary corn system in the Cearense Cariri?
Esta comunicação tem o objetivo de analisar o papel do milho no meio rural do Cariri. Para tanto, recorre-se aos estudos de Carneiro (2003), Cascudo (1967), Flandrin e Montanari (1998), entre outros.
Ariza Maria Rocha
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The Crato Formation paleoflora is one of the few equatorial floras of the Early Cretaceous. It is diverse, with many angiosperms, especially representatives of the clades magnoliids, monocotyledons and eudicots, which confirms the assumption that ...
FLAVIANA J. DE LIMA +4 more
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Response to “An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans” [PDF]
Hörnig, Haug & Haug (2017) published a description of a new specimen of Santanmantis axelrodi MB.I.2068, an extinct species of praying mantis from the Crato Formation of Brazil.
Sydney K. Brannoch, Gavin J. Svenson
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Long-proboscid brachyceran flies in Cretaceous amber (Diptera: Stratiomyomorpha: Zhangsolvidae) [PDF]
The monophyletic family Zhangsolvidae comprises stout-bodied brachyceran flies with a long proboscis and occurring only in the Cretaceous, originally known in shale from the Early Cretaceous Laiyang Formation (Fm.) in China (Zhangsolva Nagatomi & Yang ...
Arillo, Antonio +7 more
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