The age and origin of the central Scotia Sea [PDF]
, 2010 Opening of the Drake Passage gateway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans has been linked in various ways to Cenozoic climate changes. From the oceanic floor of Drake Passage, the largest of the remaining uncertainties in understanding this opening is
Eagles, Graeme
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New Early Cretaceous pentatomorph bugs from China and the systematic position of Kobdocoridae [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaKobdocoridae is an extinct family of the infraorder Pentatomomorpha, mainly distributed in the Eurasia and currently comprise only nine species from seven genera in three locations.
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Agrociencia Uruguay, 2022 Petrographic analyses are presented for the Rivera, Tacuarembó and Cuchilla Ombú formations, which constitute the outcropping Guaraní Aquifer System in the Rivera and Tacuarembó departments, Uruguay.
Paula Collazo +2 more
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Indigenous demosponge spicules in a Late Devonian stromatoporoid basal skeleton from the Frasnian of Belgium [PDF]
, 2014 This paper records the first example of a demosponge spicule framework in a single specimen of a Devonian stromatoporoid from the Frasnian of southern Belgium.
Alvarez +51 more
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First record of chimaeroid fish Ischyodus from the Upper Jurassic of southwestern Gondwana [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 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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Paleoproteomics of Mesozoic Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Fossils
PROTEOMICS, 2019 AbstractMolecular studies have contributed greatly to our understanding of evolutionary processes that act upon virtually every aspect of living organisms. However, these studies are limited with regard to extinct organisms, particularly those from the Mesozoic because fossils pose unique challenges to molecular workflows, and because prevailing wisdom
Mary Higby Schweitzer +3 more
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Integrated phylogenomic and fossil evidence of stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) reveal a Permian–Triassic co-origination with insectivores [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are a distinctive insect order whose members are characterized by mimicking various plant tissues such as twigs, foliage and bark.
Erik Tihelka +4 more
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Mesozoic Coleopteran Faunas fromArgentina: Geological Context, Diversity, Taphonomic Observations, and Comparison with Other Fossil Insect Records [PDF]
, 2012 The order Coleoptera is the most diversified group of the Class Insecta and is the largest group of the Animal Kingdom. This contribution reviews the Mesozoic insects and especially the coleopteran records from Argentina, based on bibliographical and ...
Gallego, Oscar Florencio +2 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 The marine Mesozoic is widely distributed in the northeastern waters of the South China Sea and is an important field for oil-gas exploration in the South China Sea. The Chaoshan Depression is the largest residual depression in this sea.
Zhong Guangjian +9 more
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The Mesozoic along-strike tectono-metamorphic segmentation of Longmen Shan (eastern Tibetan plateau) [PDF]
, 2018 The Longmen Shan belt (eastern border of the Tibetan plateau) constitutes a tectonically active region as demonstrated by the occurrence of the unexpected 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan and 2013 Mw 6.6 Lushan earthquakes in the central and southern parts of the ...
A. Robert +80 more
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