The rise of macropredatory pliosaurids near the Early-Middle Jurassic transition [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 The emergence of gigantic pliosaurid plesiosaurs reshaped the trophic structure of Mesozoic marine ecosystems, and established an ~ 80 million-year (Ma) dynasty of macropredatory marine reptiles.
Sven Sachs +3 more
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New macronarian from the Middle Jurassic of Chongqing, China: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for neosauropod dinosaur evolution [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Macronaria is a clade of gigantic body-sized sauropod dinosaurs widely distributed from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous globally. However, its origin, early diversification, and dispersal are still controversial.
Hui Dai +11 more
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New and poorly known Middle Jurassic larger benthic foraminifera from the Karst Dinarides of Croatia [PDF]
Geologia Croatica, 2011 Some new and poorly known larger benthic foraminifera are described from Middle Jurassic (Upper Aalenian-Bajocian) shallow-water limestones of the Croatian Karst Dinarides.
Felix Schlagintweit, Ivo Velić
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The postcranial skeleton of Monolophosaurus jiangi (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Xinjiang, China, and a review of Middle Jurassic Chinese theropods [PDF]
Geological Magazine, 2010 The Middle Jurassic was a critical time in the evolution of theropod dinosaurs, highlighted by the origination and radiation of the large-bodied and morphologically diverse Tetanurae.
ZHAO XI-JIN +34 more
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Refining the marine reptile turnover at the Early–Middle Jurassic transition [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Even though a handful of long-lived reptilian clades dominated Mesozoic marine ecosystems, several biotic turnovers drastically changed the taxonomic composition of these communities.
Valentin Fischer, Robert Weis, Ben Thuy
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Evidence for clinging arboreality in a Middle Jurassic stem lepidosaur. [PDF]
Proc Biol SciLepidosaurs are an ecologically diverse and speciose group with more than 11 000 living species (squamates and the tuatara). Stem lepidosaurs are known from the Early Triassic onwards, but primarily from very incomplete specimens. Therefore, we have little information on their ecological diversity or the ecological context of deep ...
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MIDDLE JURASSIC NAUTILOIDEA FROM WESTERN FRANCE
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2004 The Middle Jurassic shelf margin limestones and marly limestones of Western France yield quite numerous Nautilida. This record is here described for the first time in detail, nine genera and more than forty species, whose range rarely exceeds one or two ...
PATRICK BRANGER
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Systematic composition of the middle Jurassic flora and its stratigraphic distribution (Ustyurt region, Uzbekistan) [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The article presents the systematic composition and stratigraphic distribution of the Middle Jurassic flora of Ustyurt (Uzbekistan). In the Middle Jurassic sediments, three plant complexes of different ages are distinguished, corre-sponding to aalen ...
Jalilov Gafur +5 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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Early and middle Jurassic sequence stratigraphic division of M coalfield in Xinjiang [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 The coal accumulation in the M coalfield occurred in the Early-Middle Jurassic. There are three main coal-bearing strata in the M coalfield, the Early Jurassic Talicike Formation, the Yangxia Formation and the Middle Jurassic Kizilenur Formation.
Yao Qiuhui, Cui Kai
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