Ecomorphospace occupation of large herbivorous dinosaurs from Late Jurassic through to Late Cretaceous time in North America [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Following the Late Jurassic, megaherbivore communities in North America undergo a dramatic turnover in faunal composition: sauropods decline to the point of becoming relatively minor components of ecosystems, stegosaurs become extinct, and hadrosaurids ...
Taia Wyenberg-Henzler
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Two turtles with soft tissue preservation from the platy limestones of Germany provide evidence for marine flipper adaptations in Late Jurassic thalassochelydians. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Late Jurassic deposits across Europe have yielded a rich fauna of extinct turtles. Although many of these turtles are recovered from marine deposits, it is unclear which of these taxa are habitually marine and which may be riverine species washed into ...
Walter G Joyce +2 more
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Provenance and tectonic settings of late Triassic–Jurassic deposits in the Southwestern Yangtze block: evidence from the geochemistry, SW China [PDF]
Scientific ReportsDuring the Late Triassic to Jurassic, the western Yangtze Block transitioned from marine carbonate deposits to terrestrial detrital deposits. There are different views on the orogen evolution of the western margin of the Yangtze Block, such as whether ...
Shengyang Yao +7 more
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A taxonomic review of the Late Jurassic eucryptodiran turtles from the Jura Mountains (Switzerland and France) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Background. Eucryptodiran turtles from the Late Jurassic (mainly Kimmeridgian) deposits of the Jura Mountains (Switzerland and France) are among the earliest named species traditionally referred to the Plesiochelyidae, Thalassemydidae, and Eurysternidae.
Jérémy Anquetin +2 more
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A non-archaeopterygid avialan theropod from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany. [PDF]
Elife, 2019 Rauhut OW, Tischlinger H, Foth C.
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Because of the influence of the far field effect of the collision between Euro-Asian and India plates during the Late Cenozoic, the Tian Shan orogenic belt underwent intense reactivation, forming the Southern Junggar fold-and-thrust belt (SJ-FTB) to the ...
Delong Ma +11 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Sedimentary investigations, petrography, heavy mineral and conglomerate component analyses, and detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology were conducted to reconstruct the sedimentary and source-to-sink evolution of the Southern Junggar Basin, an ...
Xutong Guan +4 more
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Temporal patterns in disparity and diversity of the Jurassic ammonoids of southern Germany [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2011 A morphometric analysis of the characteristic whorl cross-sections of 1,200 Jurassic ammonoid species from southern Germany enabled us to characterise their morphospace.
M. S. Simon, D. Korn, S. Koenemann
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Diversity, 2023 The Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (164–100 Ma) represents one of the main transitional periods in life history. Recent studies unveiled a complex scenario in which abiotic and biotic factors and drivers on regional and global scales due to the ...
Eduardo Villalobos-Segura +7 more
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A giant pliosaurid skull from the late Jurassic of England. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Pliosaurids were a long-lived and cosmopolitan group of marine predators that spanned 110 million years and occupied the upper tiers of marine ecosystems from the Middle Jurassic until the early Late Cretaceous.
Roger B J Benson +6 more
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