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Tracking a “Prehistoric Pompeii” , Rhinoland and Crocodilia: New Discoveries And Interpretations Of Ipolytarnóc (N Hungary) Lower Miocene Track Site [PDF]

open access: yesGeoconservation Research, 2021
The transnational Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark situated in Northern Hungary and Southern Slovakia has several important Neogene fossil sites developed for geotourism. One of them is the lower Miocene paleontological locality complex at Ipolytarnóc , which has
Laszlo Kordos   +2 more
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The Messel Pit: Window into a Greenhouse World [PDF]

open access: yesGeoconservation Research, 2021
Anthropogenic climate change may result, within 200 years, in warm and equable climatic conditions not experienced on Earth for tens of millions of years. Ancient ecosystems under such “greenhouse” conditions may be seen as natural experiments, and their
Krister Smith
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A Revised Phylogenetic Classification for Viola (Violaceae)

open access: yesPlants, 2022
The genus Viola (Violaceae) is among the 40–50 largest genera among angiosperms, yet its taxonomy has not been revised for nearly a century. In the most recent revision, by Wilhelm Becker in 1925, the then-known 400 species were distributed among 14 ...
Thomas Marcussen   +5 more
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A new fossil Lucanidae subfamily (Coleoptera) from the Mesozoic of China [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2015
Litholamprima longimana Nikolajev et Ren, gen. et sp. n. of the family Lucanidae is described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation. Fossils were collected from Chaomidian Village, Liaoning Province, China.
G.V. Nikolajev, D. Ren
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The Phylogeny of Rays and Skates (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) Based on Morphological Characters Revisited

open access: yesDiversity, 2022
Elasmobranchii are relatively well-studied. However, numerous phylogenetic uncertainties about their relationships remain. Here, we revisit the phylogenetic evidence based on a detailed morphological re-evaluation of all the major extant batomorph clades
Eduardo Villalobos-Segura   +6 more
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Museum of Natural Sciences: valuation of the paleontological collection of the State University of Ponta Grossa

open access: yesTerr@ Plural, 2021
In the State University of Ponta Grossa is a reference institution in Paleontology in the State of Paraná, for being located on top of fossiliferous terrains of the Devonian and, mainly, by the tradition in research in this area since 1969.
Antonio Liccardo   +4 more
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Scientific collection of Paleontology and the communication ability of a blog about the discipline

open access: yesTerr@ Plural, 2021
To enhance the teaching of Paleontology, due to the lack of tools to assist it in the undergraduate course in Geology at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil, we developed a blog using the existing resources on a free online platform, as well as ...
Jonatas Rodrigues Tessari   +3 more
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The significance of Anomalocaris and other Radiodonta for understanding paleoecology and evolution during the Cambrian explosion

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2023
One of the most widespread and diverse animal groups of the Cambrian Explosion is a clade of stem lineage arthropods known as Radiodonta, which lived exclusively in the early Paleozoic.
Gaëtan J.-M. Potin, Allison C. Daley
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High-energy synchrotron-radiation-based X-ray micro-tomography enables non-destructive and micro-scale palaeohistological assessment of macro-scale fossil dinosaur bones

open access: yesJournal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2023
Palaeohistological analysis has numerous applications in understanding the palaeobiology of extinct dinosaurs. Recent developments of synchrotron-radiation-based X-ray micro-tomography (SXMT) have allowed the non-destructive assessment of ...
Takuya Imai   +3 more
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European UNESCO Geoparks: Introduction to Part II [PDF]

open access: yesGeoconservation Research, 2021
The concept of the volume is to survey all the key geoparks throughout Europe in terms of their palaeontological significance. The second set of 36 articles in this Part cover the long span of geological time from the Triassic to the Quaternary, arranged
Michael Benton
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