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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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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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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The Evolution of Equid Monodactyly: A Review Including a New Hypothesis
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The traditional story of horse evolution is well-known: over time, horses became larger, they attained higher-crowned teeth, and they changed from having three toes (tridactyly) to a single toe (monodactyly). Evolution is often perceived as a progression
Christine M. Janis +2 more
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The phylogenetic affinities and morphological peculiarities of the bird-like dinosaur Borogovia gracilicrus from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Borogovia gracilicrus is a small-bodied theropod dinosaur from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Nemegt Formation of southern Mongolia. The taxon is based on a single fragmentary specimen preserving only the distal part of the hindlimbs.
Andrea Cau, Daniel Madzia
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 Multibeam bathymetric mapping of the Santa Monica Basin in the eastern Pacific has revealed the existence of a number of elevated bathymetric features, or mounds, harboring cold seep communities.
Magdalena N. Georgieva +9 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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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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Paleobiology and philosophy [PDF]
Biology & Philosophy, 2019 I offer four ways of distinguishing paleobiology from neontology, and from this develop a sketch of the philosophy of paleobiology. I then situate and describe the papers in the special issue Paleobiology and Philosophy, and reflect on the value and prospects of paleontology-focused philosophy.
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