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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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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A new Beneziphius beaked whale from the ocean floor off Galicia, Spain and biostratigraphic reassessment of the type species [PDF]
Although the fossil record of beaked whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) is continuously improving, the geological age of new taxa is often poorly constrained.
Ismael Miján +2 more
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New postcranial remains of large toxodontian notoungulates from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, Argentina and their systematic implications [PDF]
During the last decade, the Deseadan (late Oligocene) Quebrada Fiera locality, Mendoza Province, Argentina, has provided a large amount of mammal remains.
Santiago Hernández Del Pino +2 more
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RESOLVING THE ANATOMY OF MATURE SCLERIFIED CONIFER SEED CONES: COMPLEMENTARITY AMONG THREE METHODS
Phylogenetic studies of conifers that involve morphology are hindered by gaps in the anatomical characterization of seed cones, a direct result of difficulties encountered in sectioning cones in mature stages, which are often hardened due to ...
Samar Riad El-Abdallah +4 more
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Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man By Kenneth P. Oakley. Second edition. Pp. x + 355. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966.) 45s. net.
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The endocranial anatomy of the stem turtle Naomichelys speciosa from the Early Cretaceous of North America [PDF]
Fossil turtles are one of the least studied clades in regard to endocranial anatomy. Recently, the use of non-invasive technologies, such as radiographic computed tomography (CT), increased the knowledge of the neuroanatomy of several extinct and extant ...
Ariana Paulina-Carabajal +2 more
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The first Permian centipedes from Russia [PDF]
While fossils of myriapods are well-known from the Devonian and Carboniferous, until recently sediments from the Permian have been largely devoid of the remains of this important group of terrestrial arthropods.
Alexander V. Khramov +3 more
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