New skulls of the basal sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis from Frick, Switzerland: Is there more than one species? [PDF]
The Triassic basal sauropodomorph Plateosaurus trossingensis is well-known from mass accumulations at the German localities of Trossingen and Halberstadt and the Swiss locality of Frick, and is significant especially regarding its taphonomy and proposed ...
Jens N. Lallensack +3 more
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A new euarthropod from the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota of South China [PDF]
A new small euarthropod Astutuscaris bispinifer gen. et sp. nov. is described from the early Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota in Yunnan, China. This new euarthropod possesses a wide head shield, a pair of possible eyes, paired frontalmost appendages ...
DE-GUANG JIAO, KUN-SHENG DU
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Climate-driven diversity changes of Mediterranean echinoids over the last 6 Ma [PDF]
Echinoids represent an important component of the Cenozoic marine benthic communities. Their diversity in the Mediterranean area is reviewed within the Late Miocene–Recent, a period of remarkable paleogeographic and paleoclimate changes.
ENRICO BORGHI, VITTORIO GARILLI
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Brachiopod fauna from uppermost Visean (Mississippian) mud mounds in Derbyshire, UK [PDF]
The systematic study of a brachiopod fauna collected from a Brigantian, uppermost Visean, Mississippian, mud mound complex on the Derbyshire Carbonate Platform (England, United Kingdom) recognises 45 species, representing 36 genera and seven orders ...
ALESSANDRO P. CARNITI +4 more
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Sangiran is the biggest early man site in Indonesia which has an important value such as human evolutions, culture, early fauna, and its environments. The evidence of the living past of early man sees through fossil collection, artifact, and environment.
Edy Susena +2 more
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De la paléontologie du xixe siècle à l’archéozoologie du xxe siècle
Large mammal fossil bones have been highly considered during debates about the Antiquity of Man. At early XIXth century, scholars looked for evidence of contemporaneity between knapped tools and extinct animals.
Marylène Patou-Mathis
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Rate of lineage origin explains the diversity anomaly in the World’s mangrove vegetation [PDF]
The contribution of nonecological factors to global patterns in diversity is evident when species richness differs between regions with similar habitats and geographic area. Mangrove environments in the Eastern Hemisphere harbor six times as many species
Renner, Susanne S. +2 more
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Evaluating the utility of linear measurements to identify isolated tooth loci of extinct Hyracoidea [PDF]
Serially homologous elements pose an identification problem in fragmentary records, particularly those of vertebrate fossils. Examples include individual vertebrae in the vertebral column and teeth in a tooth row.
NATASHA S. VITEK +1 more
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New finds of Olenekian, Early Triassic, trematosaurid amphibians and prolocophonid reptiles from Poland [PDF]
The continental Lower Triassic (Middle Buntsandstein) siliciclastic deposits exposed along the margins of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, yield locally abundant vertebrate footprints and bones.
TOMASZ SULEJ +2 more
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Small mammal fauna from Wulanhuxiu (Nei Mongol, China) implies the Irdinmanhan–Sharamurunian (Eocene) faunal turnover [PDF]
Wulanhuxiu, a middle Eocene locality in the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol (China) has been commonly regarded as belonging to the Ulan Shireh Formation, equated with the Irdin Manha Formation.
Qian Li +2 more
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