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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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.
Sandom C +3 more
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Osteology and relationships of Rhinopycnodus gabriellae gen. et sp. nov. (Pycnodontiformes) from the marine Late Cretaceous of Lebanon [PDF]
, 2013 The osteology of Rhinopycnodus gabriellae gen. and sp. nov., a pycnodontiform fish from the marine Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Lebanon, is studied in detail.
Capasso, Luigi, Taverne, Louis
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Camenellan tommotiids from the Cambrian Series 2 of East Antarctica: Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography, and systematics [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 Cambrian Series 2 shelly fossils from thick carbonate successions in East Antarctica have received limited systematic treatment through the 20th century.
Thomas M. Claybourn +5 more
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The evolution of reproduction in Ediacaran-Cambrian metazoans. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT The evolution of reproductive style is a fundamental aspect of metazoan life history but has not been explored holistically through the Ediacaran–Cambrian rise of metazoans. Recent molecular clock analyses based on only unequivocal metazoan fossil calibrations suggest that Porifera were present by at least 590 million years ago (Ma), all major
Wood RA, Droser ML.
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Cosmopolitan myodocope ostracods from the Silurian of Uzbekistan, Central Asia
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2020 Four species of myodocope ostracod are documented from the Silurian Ludlow Series of the Aburtkan gorge on the southern slope of Dzhalpak Mountain, Uzbekistan: namely, Parabolbozoe bohemica (Barrande, 1872), Bolbozoe anomala Barrande, 1872 ...
Mikhailova Elena +6 more
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A new sediment-dwelling pholadid bivalve from Oligocene glaciomarine sediments of King George Island, West Antarctica [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 We present a re-description of the pholadid bivalve from the Oligocene Polonez Cove Formation, King George Island, West Antarctica, previously identified as Penitella sp. The study is based on a collection of 210 specimens, preserved exclusively in life
Krzysztof Hryniewicz, Andrzej Gaździcki
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Journal of Palaeogeography, 2013 The northern flank of the Tindouf Syncline in southern Morocco exhibits a continuous, well exposed Carboniferous succession with limestones of Late Asbian to Early Bashkirian age containing rich and diverse foraminiferal and rugose coral assemblages ...
Ian D. Somerville +5 more
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Provenance history of a Late Triassic-Jurassic Gondwana margin forearc basin, Murihiku Terrane, North Island, New Zealand: petrographic and geochemical constraints [PDF]
, 2004 The Murihiku Terrane in the North Island was a forearc basin adjacent to a volcanic arc along the eastern margin of Gondwana during the Mesozoic. The rocks that infill the basin are mainly volcaniclastic sandstones and mudstones, often turbiditic, with ...
Briggs, Roger M. +2 more
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The Gemmellaro Collection: first record of an anomuran from the Tithonian of Sicily, Italy
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2017 A recent field trip to Sicily and an examination of decapod crustacean collections at the Museo Geologico G.G. Gemmellaro in the centre of Palermo, Sicily (Italy), has demonstrated that most of the anomuran and brachyuran material described by Gemmellaro
Fraaije René H.B. +4 more
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