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Palaeoecological deductions from osteohistology

Biology Letters, 2023
Palaeoecological deductions are vital for understanding the evolution and diversification of species within prehistoric environments. This review highlights the multitude of ways in which the microanatomy and microscopic structure of bones enables palaeoecological deductions. The occurrence of growth marks in bones is discussed, and their usefulness in
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Osteohistology of two phorusrhacids reveals uninterrupted growth strategy

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Phorusrhacidae were apex predators that primarily dominated South America ecosystems for at least 40 million years with their imposing size and predatory lifestyle—yet some aspects of their biology remain poorly understood. Osteohistology is a tool for understanding growth dynamics and biomechanical adaptations.
Lotta Dreyer, Christian Cooper, Jingmai O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a process of translational palaeoecology: A practical guide to research co‐production

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Palaeoecology has the potential to support practical conservation, offering a long‐term perspective to issues such as biodiversity loss, environmental restoration and peatland carbon storage.
Jessica Gauld, William J. Fletcher, Emma L. Shuttleworth, Jane Akerman, Morag Angus, Conrad Barrowclough, Helen Bennion, Antony Blundell, Dave Bromwich, Althea L. Davies, Gregory P. Dietl, Francisco Javier Ezquerra, Michelle Farrell, Karl Flessa, Cynthia Froyd, Ralph Fyfe, Martin Gillard, Robin Gledhill, Helen Harper, Joanna Higgins, Mike Longden, Celia Martin‐Puertas, César Morales‐Molino, Gautier Nicoli, Melanie A. Riedinger‐Whitmore, Ben Siggery, Emily Stewart‐Rayner, Rob Stoneman, Beth Thomas, Nathan Thomas, Philip Wright   +30 more
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Complexities of Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Biogeochemistry in Ancient Freshwater Ecosystems: Implications for the Study of Past Subsistence and Environmental Change

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of human and animal tissues have become an important means of studying both anthropogenic and natural food webs in aquatic ecosystems.
Eric Guiry, Eric Guiry
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FACIES AND RADIOLITID PALEOENVIRONMENT OF THE UPPER CENOMANIAN SHALLOW-WATER SUCCESSION FROM THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE ADRIATIC CARBONATE PLATFORM, NORTHWESTERN SIDE OF KORČULA ISLAND, CROATIA

Rudarsko-geološko-naftni Zbornik, 2023
Upper Cenomanian limestones from the northwestern part of the island of Korčula in Croatia are shallow-water Chondrodonta-level deposits that represent a lateral equivalent of a foundered platform paleoenvironment.
Alan Moro, Aleksandar Mezga, Goran Mikša, Nikola Kalemarski   +3 more
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Palaeolimnology of Lake Sapanca and identification of historic earthquake signals, Northern Anatolian Fault Zone (Turkey) [PDF]

, 2009
Lake Sapanca is located on a strand of the Northern Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ, Turkey), where a series of strong earthquakes (Ms >6.0) have occurred over the past hundred years. Identifying prehistoric earthquakes in and around Lake Sapanca is key to a
Bertrand, S, Dulski, P, Leroy, SAG, McGee, E, Nowaczyk, N, Schwab, MJ, Werner, P   +6 more
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Inter‐ and intraspecific variation in theropod dinosaur dental microwear and its palaeoecological implications

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Differences in skull and tooth morphology, stomach contents, and estimated bite force between medium‐to‐large sized (≥100 kg) predatory theropod dinosaurs have long been suspected to correlate with differences in their diets and dietary guilds (e.g., hypercarnivory, piscivory).
Cassius Morrison, James Gregory, Christopher Jackson, Jordan Bestwick, Katlin Schroeder, Samuel J.L. Gascoigne, Paul Bills, Laura B. Porro, Philip D. Mannion, Paul M. Barrett   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trace fossils associated with Burgess Shale non-biomineralized carapaces: bringing taphonomic and ecological controls into focus [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2019
The association of trace fossils and non-biomineralized carapaces has been reported from Cambrian Lagerstätten worldwide, but the abundance, ichnodiversity, taphonomy and ecological significance of such associations have yet to be fully investigated. Two
M. Gabriela Mángano, Christopher David Hawkes, Jean-Bernard Caron   +2 more
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“Grassland in a jar” – an ecological view of the archaeobotanical contents of vessels from two Lusatian Urnfield Culture settlements (Early Iron Age) in north-central Poland

Acta Palaeobotanica
During the archaeological exploration of two Lusatian Urnfield Culture settlements, dated to the Early Iron Age and located in north-central Poland, 11 well-preserved clay vessels filled with waterlogged botanical remains were discovered.
Karolina Maciejewska, Małgorzata Latałowa, Dominika Kunicka, Monika Badura   +3 more
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Ecomorphological and taphonomic gradients in clypeasteroid-dominated echinoid assemblages along a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate shelf from the early Miocene of northern Sardinia, Italy [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017
Clypeasteroid echinoids are widespread and abundant within Miocene sedimentary sequences of the Mediterranean area within both siliciclastic and carbonate deposits.
Andrea Mancosu , James H. Nebelsick
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