Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Jurassic Marine Crocodiles in the Monts d’Ardèche UNESCO Global Geopark [PDF]
Located in France on the eastern edge of the Massif Central, the Parc naturel regional des Monts d’Ardèche, inscribed as a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2014, presents great geological diversity.
Bernard Riou +3 more
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Late Mesozoic marine Antarctic fishes: future perspectives based on the newly collections recovered in the Ameghino and López de Bertodano Formations [PDF]
Nowadays, notothenioids are the teleostean group that dominates marine Antarctic waters. However, during the Mesozoic a diverse ichthyofauna inhabited the sea that surrounded Antarctic.
Soledad Gouiric-Cavalli +10 more
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Reexamination of the mandibular and dental morphology of the Early Jurassic mammaliaform Hadrocodium wui [PDF]
CT visualization of the mandible and dentition of Hadrocodium wui, a stem mammaliaform from the Lower Jurassic Lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China has revealed new features not accessible by previous microscopic study of the fossil.
ZHE-XI LUO +4 more
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A morganucodontan mammaliaform from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Utah, USA [PDF]
We describe two skull fragments of a new morganucodontan from the Cisco Mammal Quarry (Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation), preserving portions of the palate and snout in excellent 3D detail as well as the complete upper postcanine dentition ...
BRIAN M. DAVIS +4 more
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Diversity of chondrostean fish Coccolepis from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago, Southern Germany [PDF]
Late Jurassic marine vertebrates are extraordinarily well preserved in several Plattenkalk Lagerstätten in central Europe. Among them, the Solnhofen Archipelago has yielded the very rare fish Coccolepis bucklandi, which was the first fossil ...
ADRIANA LÓPEZ-ARBARELLO, MARTIN EBERT
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Pliensbachian, Early Jurassic radiolarians from Mount Rettenstein in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria [PDF]
One of the best preserved Early Pliensbachian radiolarian assemblages from the Western Tethys is described from the grey marly limestone exposed at Mount Rettenstein in the Northern Calcareous Alps, south of the Dachstein Massif.
Tim Cifer +3 more
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Structural analysis and reservoir evaluation has become increasingly important as petroleum exploration keeps making breakthroughs in the foreland of the southern Junggar Basin. However, the research on rock mechanical parameters which is closely related
ZHAO Jinyong +4 more
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First record of chimaeroid fish Ischyodus from the Upper Jurassic of southwestern Gondwana [PDF]
This study presents two specimens of Chimaeriformes from Upper Jurassic strata of central Chile. The material was recovered from Tithonian levels of the Baños del Flaco Formation and includes two different individuals, one preserving two articulated ...
Rodrigo A. Otero +5 more
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Jurassic stratigraphy of East Greenland
The East Greenland Rift Basin comprises a series of Jurassic subbasins with different crustal configurations, and somewhat different tectonic histories and styles.
Finn Surlyk +10 more
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