Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Lagomorpha is a clade of herbivorous mammals nested within Euarchontoglires, one of the major placental groups represented today. It comprises two extant families with markedly different body plans: the long-eared and long-limbed Leporidae (hares and ...
Andrzej S. Wolniewicz +3 more
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Using the Fossil Record to Evaluate Timetree Timescales. [PDF]
, 2019 The fossil and geologic records provide the primary data used to established absolute timescales for timetrees. For the paleontological evaluation of proposed timetree timescales, and for node-based methods for constructing timetrees, the fossil record ...
Marshall, Charles R
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Comparison of diverse mandibular mechanics during biting in Devonian lungfishes
iScienceSummary: Fossil lungfish from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation, Australia, feature some of the most remarkable and specialized mandible morphologies in their 415-million-year history.
Joshua Bland +7 more
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Ecological succession of a Jurassic shallow-water ichthyosaur fall. [PDF]
, 2014 After the discovery of whale fall communities in modern oceans, it has been hypothesized that during the Mesozoic the carcasses of marine reptiles created similar habitats supporting long-lived and specialized animal communities.
A Glover +58 more
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Macraucheniidae y Proterotheriidae (Mammalia, Litopterna) de Quebrada Fiera (Oligoceno tardío), Mendoza, Argentina [PDF]
, 2019 In this contribution we present new specimens of Litopterna recovered during the last decade in Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza Province, Argentina), whose fossiliferous sediments, currently recognized as the base of Agua de la Piedra Formation, are assignable ...
Cerdeño Serrano, Maria Esperanza +2 more
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Sea surface temperature contributes to marine crocodylomorph evolution [PDF]
, 2014 During the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, four distinct crocodylomorph lineages colonized the marine environment. They were conspicuously absent from high latitudes, which in the Mesozoic were occupied by warm-blooded ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.
Amiot, Romain +3 more
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A Review of the Paleobiology of Some Neogene Sharks and the Fossil Records of Extant Shark Species
DiversityIn recent years, new findings and new methods (stable isotopes of oxygen, zinc, and nitrogen; 2D and 3D modeling; and geometric morphometric analyses of the teeth) have enhanced our knowledge of the Neogene shark fauna and its paleobiology.
Olaf Höltke +2 more
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StratPal: An R package for creating stratigraphic paleobiology modelling pipelines
Methods in Ecology and EvolutionThe fossil record is an important source of information to understand biological processes that take place over timescales not accessible to human observation or experiments. Fossil data are not a perfect reflection of past biological change, but a joint
Niklas Hohmann, Emilia Jarochowska
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New Records of Panthera gombaszoegensis (Kretzoi, 1938) from Europe
QuaternaryNew postcranial material of Panthera gombaszoegensis, a large pantherine felid, is analyzed from the English site of Corton (early Middle Pleistocene, possibly 0.7–0.6 mya) and the Polish site of Rogóżka Cave (0.45–0.35 mya).
Adrian Marciszak, Alfie Bower
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Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast [PDF]
, 2013 We conducted a species-level study of molluscs associated with a 5-m long carcass of a minke whale at a depth of 125 m in the Kosterfjord (North Sea, Sweden).
Dahlgren, TG +3 more
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