Hips do not lie… histology of the pelvic girdle elements of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Poland [PDF]
The pelvic elements are among the least histologically studied skeletal elements of Temnospondyli, despite the fact that their histological framework can provide a lot of information about skeletochronology and function.
Dorota Konietzko-Meier +2 more
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Zur Geschichte der Geowissenschaften im Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin. Teil 5: Vom Mineralogischen Museum im Hauptgebäude der Universität zu den zwei geowissenschaftlichen Institutionen im Museum für Naturkunde – 1856 bis 1910 [PDF]
Im vorhergehenden 4. Teil der Artikelserie wurde die Zeit behandelt, in der das Gesamtgebiet der Geowissenschaften von dem Mineralogen und Kristallographen Christian Samuel Weiss im Mineralogischen Museum vertreten wurde und in der sich die ...
G. Hoppe
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Palaeoecology and depositional environments of the Tendaguru Beds (Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, Tanzania) [PDF]
The Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Tendaguru Beds (Tanzania, East Africa) have been well known for nearly a century for their diverse dinosaur assemblages.
M. Aberhan +7 more
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A Middle-Late Devonian fish fauna from the Sierra de Perijá, western Venezuela, South America [PDF]
A new Devonian fossil fish fauna from the region of Caño Colorado between the Rio Palmar and Rio Socuy, Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela, comes from two localities and several horizons within the Campo Chico Formation, dated on plants and spores as Givetian ...
G. C. Young, J. M. Moody
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Alpinites and other Posttornoceratidae (Goniatitida, Famennian) [PDF]
The rediscovery of the supposedly lost type allows a revision of Alpinites Bogoslovskiy, 1971, the most advanced genus of the Posttornoceratidae. The type-species, Alp. kayseri Schindewolf, 1923, is so far only known from the Carnic Alps. Alp.
R. T. Becker
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Ontogenetic development of the European basal aquatic turtle Pleurosternon bullockii (Paracryptodira, Pleurosternidae) [PDF]
Several British specimens of relatively complete and partial shells of small pleurosternid turtles, found in the Purbeck Limestone Group (Berriasian, Lower Cretaceous), are analysed in detail here.
A. Guerrero, A. Pérez-García
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Life history of Tendaguru sauropods as inferred from long bone histology [PDF]
Sauropod dinosaurs present exceptional challenges in understanding their biology because of their exceptional body size. One of these, life history, can be inferred from the histology of their bones.
P. M. Sander
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Selachians and actinopterygians from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania [PDF]
The first Late Jurassic selachian and actinopterygian fishes of Tendaguru in Tanzania were collected by the German-Tendaguru expedition in 1909–1913. They are represented mainly by occasional teeth of a neoselachian (Sphenodus) and several specimens of a
G. Arratia, J. Kriwet, W.-D. Heinrich
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First record of Ephemeropsis, Coptoclava, Coleoptera inc. sed. and Turfanograpta from Lower Cretaceous paper-shales of the western-most site of Mongolia [PDF]
Nymph-fragments (and detached cerci) of the may-fly Ephemeropsis trisetalis Eichwald and the water-beetle Coptoclava longipoda Ping, a coleopteran and a shell-fragment of the conchostracan Turfanograpta sp.
H. Jähnichen, E. Kahlert
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