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Teaching Paleontology [PDF]

, 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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New species of the ground sloth Parocnus from the late Pleistocene-early Holocene of Hispaniola

Vertebrate Anatomy, Morphology, Palaeontology, 2021
Parocnus dominicanus sp. nov. represents a new species of megalonychid ground sloth from the Altagracia Province of southeastern Dominican Republic. Specimens of multiple individuals, including one associated partial skeleton, were recovered from two ...
Robert McAfee, Sophia Beery, Renato Rimoli, Juan Almonte, Phillip Lehman, Siobhan Cooke   +5 more
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New early Eocene tapiromorph perissodactyls from the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan, with implications for mammalian biochronology in Asia [PDF]

, 2012
Early Eocene mammals from Indo-Pakistan have only recently come under study. Here we describe the first tapiromorph perissodactyls from the subcontinent. Gandheralophus minor n. gen. and n. sp. and G. robustus n. sp.
Bai B., Dehm R., Fischer K.H., Gingerich P. D., Gingerich P.D., Gingerich P.D., Gunnell G.F., Holbrook L.T., Khan A., Kumar K., Lucas S.G., Lucas S.G., Lucas S.G., Maas M.C, Matthew W.D., Meng J., Missiaen P., Missiaen P., Philip D. Gingerich, Pieter Missiaen, Pilgrim G.E., Radinsky L.B., Radinsky L.B., Radinsky L.B., Ranga Rao A., Ranga Rao A., Rose K.D., Russell D.E., Sahni A., Sahni A., Sahni A., Thewissen J.G.M., Ting S., Ting S., Tong Y., Tsubamoto T., Wang Y., West R.M.   +37 more
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Paleontology in France: 200 years in the footsteps of Cuvier and Lamarck [PDF]

, 2012
International audienceDue to its richness in fossil localities and Fossil-Lagerstätten, France played a major role in the 18th and 19th centuries in establishing paleontology and biostratigraphy as scientific disciplines.
Antoine, Pierre-Olivier, Danelian, Taniel, Lefebvre, Bertrand, Meyer-Berthaud, Brigitte, Servais, Thomas   +4 more
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VLADIMIR ONUPHRIEVICH KOVALEVSKY - THE FOUNDER OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PALEONTOLOGY (TO THE 175TH ANNIVERSARY)

Известия высших учебных заведений: Геология и разведка, 2016
The 175th anniversary of Vladimir Onuphrievich Kovalevsky, an outstanding Russian scientist, considered as a founder of evolutionary paleontology, is celebrated in 2017 year. Before the classical works of V.O. Kovalevsky, paleontology dealt predominantly
V. N. Komarov
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he Stone Age site and paleontological location near the village of Comintern (at the confluence of the Kama and Volga): research results 2020

Археология евразийских степей, 2021
The paper features the results of archaeological and paleontological research in the left bank of the Kuibyshev reservoir, at the mouth of the Aktai River (Republic of Tatarstan).
Galimova Madina Sh. , Berezin Alexander Yu. , Berezina Natalia S. , Mikhailov Evgeny P.   +3 more
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A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Inner Mongolia, China [PDF]

, 2010
We describe a new dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia. The new taxon, Linheraptor exquisitus gen. et sp.
Choiniere, J.N., Clark, J.M., Hone, D.W.E., Li, Z., Norrell, M.A., Pittman, M.D., Sullivan, C., Tan, L., Tan, Q., Xiao, D., Xu, X.   +10 more
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High-throughput micro-CT scanning and deep learning segmentation workflow for analyses of shelly invertebrates and their fossils: Examples from marine Bivalvia

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The largest source of empirical data on the history of life largely derives from the marine invertebrates. Their rich fossil record is an important testing ground for macroecological and macroevolutionary theory, but much of this historical biodiversity ...
Stewart M. Edie, Katie S. Collins, David Jablonski, David Jablonski   +3 more
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Defossilization: A Review of 3D Printing in Experimental Paleontology

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
3D printing has made it possible to recreate, actuate, and modify replicas of ancient life in transformative ways— revolutionizing studies of ancient life.
Erynn H. Johnson, A. Carter
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Gigantism in unique biogenic magnetite at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum [PDF]

, 2008
We report the discovery of exceptionally large biogenic magnetite crystals in clay-rich sediments spanning the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) in a borehole at Ancora, New Jersey. Aside from previously-described abundant bacterial magnetofossils,
Guerquin-Kern, Jean-Luc, Hesse, Reinhard, Kirschvink, Joseph L., Kopp, Robert E., Lücken, Uwe, Raub, Timothy D., Rouiller, Isabelle, Schumann, Dirk, Sears, S. Kelly, Smirnov, Aleksey V., Tikoo, Sonia M., Vali, Hojatollah, Wu, Ting-Di   +12 more
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