Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2014 The late Quaternary megafauna extinction was a severe global-scale event. Two factors, climate change and modern humans, have received broad support as the primary drivers, but their absolute and relative importance remains controversial.
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The eoorthid brachiopod Apheoorthina in the Lower Ordovician of NW Argentina and the dispersal pathways along western Gondwana [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 The eoorthid brachiopod Apheoorthina is reported for the first time from the Lower Ordovician of NW Argentina. It is represented by a species similar to A.
Diego F. Muñoz , Juan L. Benedetto
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The palaeobiogeography of South American gomphotheres
Journal of Palaeogeography, 2013 Gomphotheriid proboscideans reached South America as Late Cenozoic immigrants from North America. However, disagreements over alpha taxonomy, age dating and phylogenetic relationships have produced three competing hypotheses about this immigration: (1) a
Spencer G. Lucas
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Jurassic planktic foraminifera from the Polish Basin [PDF]
Journal of Micropalaeontology, 2021 Jurassic (Bathonian–Oxfordian) planktic foraminifera from the epicontinental strata of the Polish Basin have been investigated. The palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, and biostratigraphical potential of the recorded taxa are discussed.
M. Gajewska, Z. Dubicka, M. B. Hart
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The morphological disparity, ecological evolution and palaeobiogeography of Palaeozoic hyoliths [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2023 Hyolitha is a group of extinct invertebrates, the most dominant benthic animals within the Cambrian evolutionary fauna and forming a part of the Palaeozoic evolutionary fauna.
Fan Liu +5 more
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First report of the mitrate Mitrocystella (Echinodermata, Stylophora) in the Middle Ordovician of the Crozon Peninsula, Brittany (France) [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2023 The mid-Ordovician mitrocystitid mitrate Mitrocystella incipiens was one of the most widespread stylophorans in the high latitude Mediterranean Province, with occurrences in the Armorican Massif (France), the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain) and ...
Maxime Renaud +6 more
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BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2020 The first ostracods known from the Lycian Nappes in southwestern Turkey are here reported, adding to the scientific understanding of marine ostracods during the Cordevolian, early Carnian, Late Triassic.
Forel Marie-Béatrice, Moix Patrice
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Placoderms from the Lower Devonian “placoderm sandstone” of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland with biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017 The siliciclastic sequence of the Lower Devonian of the southern part of the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland is renown for abundant vertebrate fossils, including ostracoderm, sarcopterygian, acanthodian, chondrichthyan, and placoderm remains. Study of the
Piotr Szrek, Vincent Dupret
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Rugose corals across the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in NW Turkey [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 An uppermost Famennian (Strunian) coral assemblage has been recovered in the middle part of the Yılanlı Formation of the Istanbul Zone (Zonguldak and Bartın areas, NW Turkey). In the Bartın area, the studied fossiliferous interval corresponds to a c.
Julien Denayer
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 The Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, has produced several partial sauropod skeletons, but cranial remains—including teeth—remain rare.
Stephen F. Poropat +6 more
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