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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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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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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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Based on the results from the previous research on Mesozoic igneous rocks, as well as tectonic environments in the northern South China Sea and southern East China Sea (NSCS-SECS), geophysical parameters, strata, and characteristics of seismic facies in ...
Mingjian Wang +6 more
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Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2022 The Delingha Sag that witnessed the Indosinian, Yanshanian and Himalayan orogenies since the Mesozoic, is a potential petroliferous Meso-Cenozoic sag located in the eastern segment of the northern margin of the Qaidam Basin in North Tibet.
Huaiwei Feng +5 more
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A new basal sauropod dinosaur from the middle Jurassic of Niger and the early evolution of sauropoda. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 The early evolution of sauropod dinosaurs is poorly understood because of a highly incomplete fossil record. New discoveries of Early and Middle Jurassic sauropods have a great potential to lead to a better understanding of early sauropod evolution and ...
Kristian Remes +9 more
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FIRST THEROPOD RECORD FROM THE MARINE BATHONIAN OF JAISALMER BASIN, TETHYAN COAST OF GONDWANAN INDIA
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2023 Middle Jurassic theropods have a scanty record worldwide, especially from Gondwana. In India, where Jurassic theropods are particularly rare and only represented by a few isolated teeth and some badly preserved bones, there is currently no record of ...
Archana Sharma +2 more
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