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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Comparative bone microstructure of three archosauromorphs from the Carnian, Late Triassic Chañares Formation of Argentina [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 The Chañares Formation exhibits one of the most important archosauriform records of early Carnian ecosystems. Here we present new data on the palaeohistology of Chañares archosauriforms and provide new insights into their paleobiology, as well as ...
Jordi Alexis Garcia Marsà +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Desmostylia is an extinct clade of marine mammals with two major sub-clades, Desmostylidae and Paleoparadoxiidae, known from Oligocene to Miocene strata of the North Pacific coastline.
Kumiko Matsui +2 more
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Faunal Assemblages From Lower Bed I (Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Palaeobiological and archeological excavations at the site of Ewass Oldupa, found in the western Plio-Pleistocene rift basin of Oldupai Gorge (also Olduvai Gorge), Tanzania, revealed rich fossiliferous levels and the earliest remains of human activity at
Pamela Akuku +12 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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