The unexpected survival of an ancient lineage of anseriform birds into the Neogene of Australia: the youngest record of Presbyornithidae [PDF]
Presbyornithids were the dominant birds in Palaeogene lacustrine assemblages, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, but are thought to have disappeared worldwide by the mid-Eocene.
Vanesa L. De Pietri +4 more
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The Middle Jurassic eastern margin of the Iberian platform system (eastern Spain). Palaeogeography and biodispersal routes of ammonoids. [PDF]
From a sedimentological and palaeogeographical point of view, in the eastern margin of the Iberian platform system, Middle Jurassic deposits are represented by a thick pile of carbonates with minor marls interbedded.
Fernández López, Sixto Rafael +1 more
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Fossil freshwater sponges: Taxonomy, geographic distribution, and critical review [PDF]
Sponges are one of the most ancient animal phyla with about 8850 living species and about 5000 described fossil taxa. Most sponges are marine and live at all depths of all oceans.
Roberto Pronzato +2 more
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The Recent planktonic larvae of the polychaete spionids are some of the most widespread and abundant group of coastal meroplankton worldwide. To study the possible co-migration of biotic partners and determine whether they were host-specific, the type of
Enrique Villas +5 more
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A new caenogastropod from the upper Rhaetian of Lombardy: Palaeobiogeographical history and implications for the Early Jurassic gastropod recovery [PDF]
A new gastropod genus and its type species, namely Ederazyga fanchini gen. et sp. nov., are described from the upper Rhaetian deposits of Lombardy (northern Italy) and tentatively placed into the family Zygopleuridae. The first appearance of Ederazyga is
Vittorio Pieroni +2 more
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Ornithomimid material from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada is described as sharing characters with Qiupalong henanensis from the Qiupa Formation of Henan Province, China. Derived characters and character combinations of the pubis and
Bradley McFeeters +3 more
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Phytogeography of the Pacific Coast of North America
This study was designed to explore floristic variation along the Pacific coast from Cook Inlet, Alaska (61º30’N), to the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico, at 23º02’N.
Manuel Peinado Lorca +3 more
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Paläobiogeographie des Korallenooliths (Mittleres Oxfordium - Unteres Kimmeridgium): Tethyale Faunen- und Florenelement auf höherer Paläobreite [PDF]
An overview is given here on the palaeobiogeography of the Korallenoolith Formation (middle Oxfordian to early Kimmeridgian) in NW Germany (Lower Saxony Basin).
Fischer, Rudolf +2 more
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A bajocian (Middle jurassic) marine gastropod assemblage from the badamu formation, Central Iran [PDF]
Nine species of gastropods are reported from the Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) part of the Badamu Formation of Central Iran. This is the first report of a gastropod assemblage of this age from the shelves of the Kimmerian Continent.
Binazadeh, Tayyeb +2 more
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During latest Devonian and early Carboniferous times, calcareous foraminifers were abundant, widely distributed, and showed the most rapid rate of evolution in the shallow-sea deposits. These factors, especially their fast phylogenetic changes, make them
Markus Aretz +2 more
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