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An ontological morphological phylogenetic framework for living and extinct ray‐finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The ray‐finned fishes include one out of every two species of living vertebrates on Earth and have an abundant fossil record stretching 380 million years into the past. The division of systematic knowledge of ray‐finned fishes between paleontologists working on extinct animals and neontologists studying extant species has obscured the ...
Jack Stack
wiley   +1 more source

Mesozoic and Cenozoic diktyogenese in the Lower Yangtze region

Shiyou shiyan dizhi, 2020
Three stages of metamorphic tectonic movements took place in the Lower Yangtze region due to the joint action of the Tethys and the Pacific plates from the Middle/Late Triassic to the Early/Middle Jurassic, the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, and ...
Daogui DING, Fengli LI
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The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution [PDF]

, 2015
The previous oldest known fossil snakes date from ∼100 million year old sediments (Upper Cretaceous) and are both morphologically and phylogenetically diverse, indicating that snakes underwent a much earlier origin and adaptive radiation.
Apesteguía, Sebastián, Caldwell, Michael Wayne, Nydam, Randall L., Palci, Alessandro   +3 more
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Endothermy, neuron counts, and other issues: Further remarks on neurocognitive evolution in fossil vertebrates

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Last year, we challenged the view that large‐bodied theropod dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex resembled primates in cognition and behavior, a proposition made by Herculano‐Houzel in 2023. More recently, Jensen et al. have criticized our work on this topic, raising methodological and conceptual issues.
Kai R. Caspar, Cristián Gutiérrez‐Ibáñez, Hady George, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Darren Naish, Grant R. Hurlburt   +5 more
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A new early branching armored dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of southwestern China

eLife, 2022
The early evolutionary history of the armored dinosaurs (Thyreophora) is obscured by their patchily distributed fossil record and by conflicting views on the relationships of Early Jurassic taxa. Here, we describe an early diverging thyreophoran from the
Xi Yao, Paul M Barrett, Lei Yang, Xing Xu, Shundong Bi   +4 more
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The Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary and high resolution biostratigraphy of the pelagic sequences of the kurovice section (Outer Western Carpathians, the northern Tethyan margin) [PDF]

, 2019
Microfacies and high resolution studies at the Kurovice quarry (Czech Republic, Outer Western Carpathians) on calpionellids, calcareous and non-calcareous dinoflagellate cysts, sporomorphs and calcareous nannofossils, aligned with paleomagnetism, allow ...
Elbra, Tiiu, Reháková, Daniela, Schnabl, Petr, Skupien, Petr, Svobodová, Andrea, Svobodová, Marcela, Švábenická, Lilian   +6 more
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Fertile Osmundaceae from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina

International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2012
Two new compression-impression species of the Osmundaceae described from reproductive and vegetative remains are erected for the first time from the Early Jurassic of Argentina. Todites cacereii sp. nov. and Osmundopsis rafaelii sp. nov. demonstrate that two main osmundaceous reproductive morphologies; i.e., differentiated reduced or unreduced fertile ...
Escapa, Ignacio Hernán, Cúneo, Néstor Rubén   +1 more
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Cranial anatomy of a Late Cretaceous aspidorhynchid fish (Neopterygii: Aspidorhynchiformes) from Alberta, Canada

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Belonostomus longirostrisis was named for an isolated jaw fragment from freshwater Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) sediments of the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada. Following the description of the Albertan species, numerous isolated cranial and postcranial elements have been collected from the Dinosaur Park Formation and assigned to B.
Mondo Miyazato, Luke E. Nelson, Joshua A. Doyon, Donald B. Brinkman, Alison M. Murray   +4 more
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The Jurassic structure of the northern sector of Foligno mountains (Central Italy)

Journal of Maps
This study examines the Jurassic palaeogeography and tectonic evolution of the northern Foligno mountains. A 1:10,000-scale geological survey highlights the impact of Jurassic extensional faulting on depositional environments.
Sandro Galdenzi
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A glimpse of the lost Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic architecture of the Dinaric Carbonate Platform margin and slope

Geologija, 2022
In the southernmost outcrops of the Slovenian Basin the Middle Jurassic coarse-grained limestone breccia (mega)beds are interstratified within a succession that is otherwise dominated by hemipelagites and distal turbidites.
Boštjan Rožič, Luka Gale, Primož Oprčkal, Astrid Švara, Tomislav Popit, Lara Kunst, Dragica Turnšek, Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek, Andrej Šmuc, Aljaž Ivekovič, Jan Udovč, David Gerčar   +11 more
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