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The morphology and histology of a juvenile Sinokannemeyeria from the Middle Triassic Ermaying Formation of Shanxi, North China

open access: yesChina Geology, 2023
Kannemeyeriiformes were dominated tetrapods in the Middle Triassic terrestrial faunae of China. Although abundant materials of Sinokannemeyeria have been collected, their postcranial morphology information is not well studied, especially the juveniles ...
Li-juan Xie   +5 more
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New Apterodontinae (Hyaenodontida) from the Eocene locality of Dur At-Talah (Libya): systematic, paleoecological and phylogenetical implications. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
The African Hyaenodontida, mainly known from the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene Fayum depression in Egypt, show a very poor diversity in oldest Paleogene localities.
Camille Grohé   +9 more
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Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Skeletal pneumaticity is found in the presacral vertebrae of most sauropod dinosaurs, but pneumaticity is much less common in the vertebrae of the tail.
Michael P Taylor   +3 more
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Forty new specimens of Ichthyornis provide unprecedented insight into the postcranial morphology of crownward stem group birds [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2022
Ichthyornis has long been recognized as a pivotally important fossil taxon for understanding the latest stages of the dinosaur–bird transition, but little significant new postcranial material has been brought to light since initial descriptions of ...
Juan Benito   +5 more
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The Population of Kostroma in XVI–XVIII Centuries (anthropological research)

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2018
This paper presents the results of human remains study from the necropolis on Tekstilschiki street (Kostroma city, Russia), dated back to XVI–XVIII centuries.
Vasilyev Sergey V.   +2 more
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Crushed but not lost: a colubriform snake (Serpentes) from the Miocene Swiss Molasse, identified through the use of micro-CT scanning technology

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Geosciences, 2022
An incomplete postcranial skeleton of a snake from the middle Miocene of the Swiss Molasse in Käpfnach mine, near Zurich, Switzerland, is described in this paper.
Georgios L. Georgalis   +1 more
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Hand to mouth in a Neandertal : right-handedness in regourdou 1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We describe and analyze a Neandertal postcranial skeleton and dentition, which together show unambiguous signs of right-handedness. Asymmetries between the left and right upper arm in Regourdou 1 were identified nearly 20 years ago, then confirmed by ...
Volpato, Virginie   +19 more
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VALLESAURUS CENENSIS WILD, 1991, A DREPANOSAURID (REPTILIA DIAPSIDA) FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC OF NORTHERN ITALY

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2006
Vallesaurus cenensis, a small drepanosaurid reptile from the Norian (Late Triassic) beds of the Calcare di Zorzino (Zorzino Limestone) is described. The holotype and only known specimen represents the first drepanosaurid in which the skull is preserved ...
SILVIO RENESTO, GIORGIO BINELLI
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Oldest skeleton of a plesiadapiform provides additional evidence for an exclusively arboreal radiation of stem primates in the Palaeocene [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2017
Palaechthonid plesiadapiforms from the Palaeocene of western North America have long been recognized as among the oldest and most primitive euarchontan mammals, a group that includes extant primates, colugos and treeshrews.
Stephen G. B. Chester   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The ontogeny of the postcranial skeleton in saddle-back tamarins, Leontocebus fuscicollis and callimicos, Callimico goeldii (Callitrichidae, Primates)

open access: yesAnthropological Review, 2023
Ontogenetic studies of callitrichid anatomy are limited to research focused mainly on postcranial skeleton of adults. The goal of this study is to compare the ontogeny of postcranial skeletal development in Goeldi’s monkeys (i.e., callimico; Callimico ...
Bernardo Urbani
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