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Nuclear preservation in the cartilage of the Jehol dinosaur Caudipteryx
Communications Biology, 2021 Zheng et al. report on the presence of nuclear preservation in the femoral cartilage of a specimen of Caudipteryx, a theropod dinosaur. They identify the presence of chromatin threads for only the second time in any vertebrate fossil.
Xiaoting Zheng +4 more
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Cretaceous bird with dinosaur skull sheds light on avian cranial evolution
Nature Communications, 2021 In addition to major innovations in their locomotor system, early birds evolved highly derived skulls. Here, Wang et al. three dimensionally reconstruct the skull of a new enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous that illustrates the early avialan ...
Min Wang +4 more
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The rapid evolution of lungfish durophagy
Nature Communications, 2022 It is unclear how Lungfishes evolved durophagy, the consumption of hard prey, despite being the longest lineage of vertebrates with this feeding mechanism. Here, the authors describe exceptionally preserved fossils of Youngolepis from the Early Devonian,
Xindong Cui +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 In this paper, seven coprolites from the Lower Cretaceous of Tsagan-Tsab formation have been described. Thus, producing a significant contribution to what we perceived as the first detailed study of coprolites from the Mesozoic deposits in Mongolia.
Paul Rummy, Kazim Halaclar, He Chen
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New information on the Wukongopteridae (Pterosauria) revealed by a new specimen from the Jurassic of China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The Wukongopteridae is an important pterosaur group discovered from Yanliao Biota, because it combines character states seen in non-pterodactyloid and pterodactyloid pterosaurs.
Xin Cheng +3 more
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Skeleton of Late Paleocene Plesiadapis Cookei (Mammalia, Euarchonta): Life History, Locomotion, and Phylogenetic Relationships [PDF]
, 2019 https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/151767/1/Papers on Paleontology 38 10-10-2019 - High Res.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/151767/2/Papers on Paleontology 38 10-10-2019 - low res.pdfDescription of Papers on Paleontology
Gingerich, Philip D., Boyer, Douglas M.
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Communications Biology, 2021 A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01852 ...
Bin Bai +4 more
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Communications Biology, 2021 A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01660-x.
Bin Bai +4 more
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Taxonomic revision of Eoalligator (Crocodylia, Brevirostres) and the paleogeographic origins of the Chinese alligatoroids [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Background. The primarily Neotropical distribution of living alligatoroids raises questions as to when and how the ancestors of Alligator sinensis migrated to China.
Yan-yin Wang, Corwin Sullivan, Jun Liu
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Diversity, 2023 The Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT) was one of the most profound climate changes in the Cenozoic era, characterized by global cooling around 34 million years ago. This time period also witnessed major faunal turnovers, such as the “Mongolian Remodeling”
Rancheng Xu +3 more
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