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VIRTUAL PALEONTOLOGY—AN OVERVIEW [PDF]
The Paleontological Society Papers, 2016 AbstractVirtual paleontology is the study of fossils through three-dimensional digital visualizations; it represents a powerful and well-established set of tools for the analysis and dissemination of fossil data. Techniques are divisible into tomographic (i.e., slice-based) and surface-based types.
Sutton, MD, Rahman, IA, Garwood, RJ
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Laser-stimulated fluorescence in paleontology. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Fluorescence using ultraviolet (UV) light has seen increased use as a tool in paleontology over the last decade. Laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF) is a next generation technique that is emerging as a way to fluoresce paleontological specimens that ...
Thomas G Kaye +8 more
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Improving the relevance of paleontology to climate change policy
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Paleontology has provided invaluable basic knowledge on the history of life on Earth. The discipline can also provide substantial knowledge to societal challenges such as climate change.
W. Kiessling, Jansen A. Smith, N. Raja
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Paleobiology, 2023 Non-technical Summary Researchers often use large databases to conduct their studies; however, they do not always provide credit, through citations, to the people who produced the data in the databases.
Jansen A. Smith +14 more
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Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology
Paleobiology, 2021 . As practitioners of a historical science, paleontologists and geoscientists are well versed in the idea that the ability to understand and to anticipate the future relies upon our collective knowledge of the past.
Pedro M. Monarrez +12 more
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Phylogenetic Signal and Bias in Paleontology
Systematic Biology, 2021 An unprecedented amount of evidence now illuminates the phylogeny of living mammals and birds on the Tree of Life. We use this tree to measure the phylogenetic value of data typically used in paleontology (bones and teeth) from six data sets derived from
R. Asher, Martin R. Smith
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Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco
ZooKeys, 2020 The geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to as the “Kem Kem beds”, are reviewed.
Nizar Ibrahim +9 more
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Land, 2022 The important paleontological and archaeological discoveries made in Tamajón in recent years have enriched the exceptional natural and cultural heritage of this town in the north of the Guadalajara province (central Spain).
Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla +8 more
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New scientific direction of the bacterial paleontology in Mongolia
Mongolian Geoscientist, 2019 We review the initial development of Bacterial Paleontology in Mongolia and present some electron microscopic images of fossil bacteria in different stages of preservation in sedimentary rocks.
Dorj Dorjnamjaa +2 more
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, 1995 This guide is designed to be used by teachers as an aid for teaching principles of fossils and past life to elementary school students. The activities and labs provided include topics such as fossilization, sedimentation, trace fossils, the importance of
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