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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Softshell turtles (Pan‐Trionychidae) are an early branching clade of hidden‐necked turtles (Cryptodira) with a rich fossil record extending back to the Early Cretaceous. The evolutionary history of softshell turtles is still unresolved because of their conservative morphology combined with high levels of polymorphism related to morphological ...
Léa C. Girard, Walter G. Joyce
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Dental crown morphological variation and heterodonty in carcharhiniform sharks
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Elasmobranch teeth are highly mineralized structures that constitute the majority of the fossil record for this group. Despite their taxonomic and evolutionary significance, detailed descriptions of dental morphology remain scarce. The order Carcharhiniformes, the most diverse among sharks, comprises 304 valid species that display remarkable ...
Flávia Zanini, Karla D. A. Soares
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Les hominoïdes fossiles : une aide pour l’éducation en Afrique
Revue de Primatologie, 2009 Africa is a key continent for unravelling hominid history shared with that of apes and to understand the emergence of our family in relation to the environment.
Brigitte Senut
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Belonostomus longirostrisis was named for an isolated jaw fragment from freshwater Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) sediments of the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada. Following the description of the Albertan species, numerous isolated cranial and postcranial elements have been collected from the Dinosaur Park Formation and assigned to B.
Mondo Miyazato +4 more
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Revue de Primatologie, 2011 Madagascar is one of the most important hotspot of the world biodiversity. Among the numerous endemic animals living in the island, the lemurs are the more emblematic. Within the primate order, this group is one of the most diversified.
Dominique Gommery, Beby Ramanivosoa
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An osteohistological analysis of Triceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) cranial ornamentation
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Ceratopsids are among the most distinctive and well known extinct Cretaceous vertebrates, yet many details regarding the growth and composition of their cranial features are still not fully anatomically described or understood. In particular, striking cranial adornments such as the postorbital horns and parietal‐squamosal frill of Triceratops ...
Kyle D. Obuszewski +2 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Upper Cretaceous São José do Rio Preto Formation (Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil) has yielded a fragmentary but taxonomically diverse record of titanosaur sauropods, although elements from cervical series remain scarce. Here, we describe a nearly complete sauropod axis from the Vila Ventura Paleontological Area, representing an uncommon ...
Bruno A. Navarro +7 more
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Ernst Cassirer e la biologia: dall’evoluzionismo alla paleoantropologia come scienza trascendentale dell’uomo [PDF]
S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2016 Ernst Cassirer and Biology: from Evolutionism to Paleoanthropology as human Transcendental Science In the present paper I will deal with the special epistemological problem of setting the basic conditions of a transcendental science of man in the spirit
LAINO, LUIGI
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De la paléontologie du xixe siècle à l’archéozoologie du xxe siècle
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2012 Large mammal fossil bones have been highly considered during debates about the Antiquity of Man. At early XIXth century, scholars looked for evidence of contemporaneity between knapped tools and extinct animals.
Marylène Patou-Mathis
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Aliança Formation (Jatobá Basin) represents lacustrine deposits formed in oxygenated waters that hosted a diverse fauna, including Hybodontiform sharks. Within this group, the Family Lonchidiidae comprises 11 valid genera, with Parvodus previously reported in Brazilian deposits from the Brejo Santo Formation (Araripe Basin, Late Jurassic ...
Larissa de Souza Ribeiro +1 more
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