A guide for microscopic description of fossil stromatolites [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Geology, 2023 Stromatolites are laminated biosedimentary structures of great importance for paleobiological, paleoecological, and paleoenvironmental analyses, mainly in Precambrian rocks. Their value is related to the glimpse of past life recorded in their lamination,
Evelyn Aparecida Mecenero Sanchez +4 more
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Photosymbiosis in Late Triassic scleractinian corals from the Italian Dolomites [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 During the Carnian, oligotrophic shallow-water regions of the western Tethys were occupied by small, coral-rich patch reefs. Scleractinian corals, which already contributed to the formation of the reef structure, owed their position most probably to the ...
Katarzyna Frankowiak +2 more
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Shell variability in the stem turtles Proterochersis spp. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Turtle shells tend to exhibit frequent and substantial variability, both in bone and scute layout. Aside from secondary changes, caused by diseases, parasites, and trauma, this variability appears to be inherent and result from stochastic or ...
Tomasz Szczygielski +2 more
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Paleobiology in the Mediterranean
Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 2020 ----------------
Dominici S., Scarponi D.
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Ecomorphology and bone microstructure of Proterochampsia from the Chañares Formation [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 Proterochampsians are a South American endemic group of non-archosaurian archosauriforms with morphological characteristics recollecting Recent crocodilians, and therefore have been proposed as aquatic species. However, this has not been based on careful
Andrea Arcucci +2 more
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Exploring the past to protect the future: an analysis of conservation paleobiology in South America [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiênciasConservation paleobiology, an expanding field, employs taphonomy tools to investigate past environmental conditions and organisms before human impacts, thereby addressing key conservation issues.
ANNA CLARA A. DE ASSUMPÇÃO +1 more
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Appendicular skeleton of Protoceratops andrewsi (Dinosauria, Ornithischia): comparative morphology, ontogenetic changes, and the implications for non-ceratopsid ceratopsian locomotion [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Protoceratops andrewsi is a well-known ceratopsian dinosaur from the Djadokhta Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia). Since the 1920s, numerous skeletons of different ontogenetic stages from hatchlings to adults, including fully articulated specimens ...
Justyna Słowiak +2 more
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What are the limits on whale ear bone size? Non-isometric scaling of the cetacean bulla [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The history of cetaceans demonstrates dramatic macroevolutionary changes that have aided their transformation from terrestrial to obligate aquatic mammals.
Sabrina L. Groves +2 more
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Body mass estimation in Triassic cynodonts from Argentina based on limb variables
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 Body mass estimations for extinct taxa are fundamental in palaeobiological reconstructions, but little work has been done on this topic for non-mammaliaform cynodonts (NMC), the diverse and abundant Permo-Cretaceous forerunners of mammals.
FLORENCIA S. FILIPPINI +2 more
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The soft-tissue attachment scars in Late Jurassic ammonites from Central Russia [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2015 Soft-tissue attachment scars of two genera and four species of Late Jurassic craspeditid ammonites from the Russian Platform are described. A previously suggested relationship between lateral attachment scars and ammonoid hyponome is confirmed, however,
Aleksandr A. Mironenko
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