A new genus of lance lacewings from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 Fossils of Osmylinae are rare, currently only one fossil genus of this subfamily is known, Lithosmylus which is recorded from the late Eocene Florissant Formation of USA. Herein, we report a new Osmylinae genus with two new species, Vetosmylus tentus gen.
Yiming Ma +3 more
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Molar morphology and occlusion of the Early Jurassic mammaliaform Erythrotherium parringtoni [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 The South African Early Jurassic morganucodontan Erythrotherium is considered by some authors to be potentially synonymous with Morganucodon, due to similar tooth morphology.
KAI R.K. JÄGER +3 more
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Comparative bone microstructure of three archosauromorphs from the Carnian, Late Triassic Chañares Formation of Argentina [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 The Chañares Formation exhibits one of the most important archosauriform records of early Carnian ecosystems. Here we present new data on the palaeohistology of Chañares archosauriforms and provide new insights into their paleobiology, as well as ...
Jordi Alexis Garcia Marsà +2 more
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A new Early Cretaceous flea from China [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 Fleas are highly specialized holometabolic insects. So far, only 16 species of fossil fleas in five families have been reported due to the rare fossil records.
Yanjie Zhang +4 more
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Seazzadactylus venieri gen. et sp. nov., a new pterosaur (Diapsida: Pterosauria) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of northeastern Italy [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 A new non-monofenestratan pterosaur with multicusped dentition, Seazzadactylus venieri, is described from the Upper Triassic (middle-upper Norian) of the Carnian Prealps (northeastern Italy). The holotype of S. venieri preserves a complete mandibular and
Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia
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Perinatal specimens of Maiasaura from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana (USA): insights into the early ontogeny of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Perinatal specimens of hadrosaurids discovered in the late 1970’s by field crews from Princeton University were significant in providing evidence of the early ontogenetic stages in North American dinosaurs.
Albert Prieto-Marquez +1 more
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Insects, 2022 A new Burmese amber genus Maculixiusgen. nov. with its type species Maculixius jiewenaesp. nov. is described in the planthopper family Cixiidae. This new genus is unique in Burmese Cixiidae by its forewing venation, with Pcu and A1 merging in the middle ...
Menglin Wang +2 more
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Jaw shape and mechanical advantage are indicative of diet in Mesozoic mammals
Communications Biology, 2021 Jaw morphology is closely linked to both diet and biomechanical performance, and jaws are one of the most common Mesozoic mammal fossil elements. Knowledge of the dietary and functional diversity of early mammals informs on the ecological structure of ...
N. M. Morales-García +3 more
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Correlation of Proterozoic-Phanerozoic deep wells sections targeting Aldan-Maya area petroleum potentiality estimation [PDF]
Нефтегазовая геология: Теория и практика, 2022 The article discusses the debatable issues of well log correlation of the Riphean, Vendian, Cambrian and Mesozoic sections, promising for the search for oil and gas in the Aldan-Maya potentially petroleum bearing region. The author's proposed correlation
Fomin A.M. +3 more
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Journal of Economic Geology, 2021 Introduction Granitoids are the main rock units in the continental crust. Study of granitoids reveals significant information on tectonic mantle and upper crust.
Ramin Samadi +2 more
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