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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Tracking Late Jurassic ornithopods in the Lusitanian Basin of Portugal: Ichnotaxonomic implications [PDF]
The Sociedade de História Natural in Torres Vedras, Portugal houses an extensive collection of as yet undescribed dinosaur tracks with ornithopod affinities.
Diego Castanera +4 more
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First report of Plesiochelys etalloni and Tropidemys langii from the Late Jurassic of the UK and the palaeobiogeography of plesiochelyid turtles [PDF]
Plesiochelyidae is a clade of relatively large coastal marine turtles that inhabited the shallow epicontinental seas that covered western Europe during the Late Jurassic.
Jérémy Anquetin, Sandra D. Chapman
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Revision of the Late Jurassic teleosaurid genus Machimosaurus (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) [PDF]
Machimosaurus was a large-bodied genus of teleosaurid crocodylomorph, considered to have been durophagous/chelonivorous, and which frequented coastal marine/estuarine ecosystems during the Late Jurassic.
Mark T. Young +10 more
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Two new species of Late Jurassic erymid lobsters, Stenodactylina devillezi sp. nov. and Stenodactylina geigerae sp. nov., are described on the basis of isolated, but well-preserved chelipeds from the upper Kimmeridgian of Swabia and the lower Tithonian
Günter SCHWEIGERT, Jürgen HÄRER
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The sequence stratigraphy of the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian to Kimmeridgian) of the central Arabia is based on outcrop measured sections. The sequence stratigraphic framework is extended eastward across the Arabian Basin through surface-to-subsurface gamma-
A. Al-Mojel, P. Razin, G. Dera
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La sedimentación en la cuenca ibérica septentrional durante el Kimmeridgiense tuvo lugar en una extensa rampa carbonatada de bajo ángulo. Las facies de rampa externa, acumuladas por debajo del nivel de base del oleaje debido a tormentas (i.e., C.
M. Aurell, B. Bádenas
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Thalassemys bruntrutana n. sp., a new coastal marine turtle from the Late Jurassic of Porrentruy (Switzerland), and the paleobiogeography of the Thalassemydidae [PDF]
Background. The Swiss Jura Mountains are a key region for Late Jurassic eucryptodiran turtles. Already in the mid 19th century, the Solothurn Turtle Limestone (Solothurn, NW Switzerland) yielded a great amount of Kimmeridgian turtles that are ...
Christian Püntener +2 more
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New findings of rhyncholites in the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Crimea
Until now thefindingsof rhyncholites from the Jurassic marine sediments of Crimea were very scarce. In both the Oxfordian and Kimmeridgian of Crimea, rhyncholites were never found despite the fact that in Western and Central Europe they are very numerous
A. A. Mironenko, V. N. Komarov
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Over the last two centuries, numerous exquisitely preserved thalattosuchian crocodylomorph skeletons have been found in the Jurassic strata of Southern Germany.
Pascal Abel, S. Sachs, M. Young
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