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Divergent defense strategies and niche partitioning in Cretaceous micro‐beetles

open access: yesJournal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.
We report a new clambid beetle from mid‐Cretaceous Kachin amber, Scutacalyptus kolibaci gen. et sp. nov., characterized by a flattened body and explanate margins. Alongside spiny and conglobating clambid forms, this diversity reflects niche partitioning and varied antipredator strategies in the Cretaceous forest floor.
Yan‑Da Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Constructive waterfalls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The excavation of valleys by waterfalls is one of the best known and most effective processes by which rivers cut down the surface of the earth. The influence of waterfalls is usually regarded as solely destructive, and as always helping to lower the ...
Gregory, John Walter
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Geology of the Transverse Range Province, Southern California [PDF]

open access: yes, 1954
The Transverse Range province of southern California is an elongate geomorphic and structural unit that trends essentially east-west across parts of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties (pl. 4).
Bailey, Thomas L., Jahns, Richard H.
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Review of the dental pattern in the squalomorph shark Protospinax annectans , and a description of two new Jurassic shark genera

open access: yesActa Palaeontologica Polonica
The extinct elasmobranch Protospinax is an intriguing shark known mostly from isolated teeth and rare complete skeletons. Most previous studies focused on differences in isolated teeth for taxonomic assignments, with little to no considerations of dental
Arnaud Begat   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fossilized gill soft tissues in Mesozoic freshwater unionoid bivalves: reinvestigation and new evidence of the evolution of adaptation to the freshwater environment

open access: yesActa Palaeontologica Polonica
Large freshwater unionoid bivalves today are a globally distributed and diverse group, with a history dating back to the Triassic. Their evolutionary success largely depends on their reproductive behavior, today, they all take maternal care via brooding ...
Aleksandra Skawina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mesozoic Thermo-Tectonic Evolution of the Western Altai Orogenic Belt (NW China): Insights from Low-Temperature Thermochronology [PDF]

open access: gold, 2023
Mingxuan Wu   +9 more
openalex   +1 more source

Campylopus, a modern and successful genus!? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Campylopus with nearly 200 revised species is one of the largest genera of mosses in the world and has extremely broad geographical, altitudinal and ecological ranges.
Frahm, Jan-Peter
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