Pleistocene Legacies in the Contemporary Population Genetic Structure of an Acid-Specialised Crayfish, the Threatened Sand Yabby <i>Cherax robustus</i>. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study describes the contemporary genetic structure of a vulnerable short‐range endemic crayfish which is restricted to the heavily fragmented heathland‐peatland complexes of southeast Queensland across a range of approximately 200 km2. Using high‐resolution genome‐wide SNP sequencing, we estimate that population divergence in this species ...
Smith G, Ventura T, Yule CM.
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Seed-cone architecture of Pararaucaria utahensis Gee, Howell et Dayvault sp. nov. (Cheirolepidiaceae) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah, USA. [PDF]
Am J BotAbstract Premise Although Pararaucaria seed cones were first described 90 years ago, only in the last dozen years have we discovered the greater extent of the species diversity and paleogeographic range of the genus. Pararaucaria is now known across the mid‐latitudes of the Lower Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous in the northern and southern hemispheres ...
Gee CT, Howell MM, Dayvault RD.
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New records of extinct Icacinaceae from Paleocene rainforests of northwestern South America. [PDF]
Am J BotAbstract Premise This study describes three new records of Icacinaceae—Punctiuga bachue gen. et sp. nov., Palaeophytocrene paramoae sp. nov., and Goweria bacatana sp. nov. from the Paleocene (Selandian–Thanetian) Bogotá Formation in Colombia—improving understanding of the distribution and evolution of this family in the Neotropics.
Puente-Santos LM +3 more
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First occurrences of Trionychidae (Testudines, Cryptodira) from the Miocene of Poland: Detailed cranial anatomy and biogeographic implications. [PDF]
J AnatFossil finds from three Middle Miocene sites in Poland reveal the northernmost known presence of trionychid turtles in Europe, tentatively identified as Trionyx cf. vindobonensis, suggesting a warmer climate that supported thermophilic species in Central Europe during this period. Abstract Modern trionychids (Testudines, Cryptodira) have a pan‐tropical
Pochat-Cottilloux Y +5 more
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Habitat Suitability and Glacial Refugia of the Turbid-Water Coral Turbinaria peltata Across the Indo-West Pacific Ocean Based on MaxEnt Modeling [PDF]
BiologyAs a typical turbid-water reef coral, Turbinaria peltata shows strong tolerance to high temperature and sediment disturbance, yet its basin-scale niche drivers and glacial distribution dynamics across the Indo-West Pacific remain unclear.
Yanping Zhang +5 more
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Phylogeny and Historical Biogeography of the Scorpion Genus Hottentotta Birula, 1908 (Buthidae) in the Iranian Plateau and the Zagros Mountains [PDF]
InsectsThe scorpion genus Hottentotta Birula, 1908 is widely distributed across Africa and the Middle East, extending to Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. The processes which resulted in their evolution and diversification across this vast area are poorly ...
Omid Mirshamsi +3 more
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A new record of Tayassuidae (Mammalia: Cetartiodactyla) from the Pleistocene of northern Brazil [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 In this contribution, we described a new fossil of a Pleistocene Tayassuidae from northern Brazil. The specimen is a left dentary with molars assigned to cf. Pecari tajacu recovered from an outcrop of the Rio Madeira Formation, State of Rondônia, Brazil.
PAULA L. COPETTI +3 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 This study aims to investigate a marlstone and claystone succession located at the southern end of the Eastern Carpathians, a region where oceanic anoxic event 2 (OAE2) has not been pointed out so far.
Mihaela Melinte-Dobrinescu +8 more
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First record of chimaeroid fish Ischyodus from the Upper Jurassic of southwestern Gondwana [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 This study presents two specimens of Chimaeriformes from Upper Jurassic strata of central Chile. The material was recovered from Tithonian levels of the Baños del Flaco Formation and includes two different individuals, one preserving two articulated ...
Rodrigo A. Otero +5 more
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Diversity, 2023 The Sinamiidae are a family of halecomorph fishes (Holostei) stratigraphically limited to the Lower Cretaceous and confined to East Asia. The first species of sinamiids were discovered in China, and then new occurrences were recorded in Thailand and ...
Uthumporn Deesri +6 more
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