Mosasaurs, Limpets or Diagenesis: How Placenticeras Shells Got Punctured [PDF]
Claimed mosasaur bites in Upper Cretaceous Placenticeras shells from the Western United States are reinterpreted as limpetmade pits that became punctured by compactional pressure and beveled during diagenesis.
A. Seilacher
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Allostaffia, a new genus name for Staffia Heinrich, 1999 (Allotheria, Haramiyida) preoccupied by Staffia Schubert, 1911 (Protista, Foraminifera) [PDF]
The genus name Staffia Heinrich, 1999 published for a Jurassic allotherian mammal from Tendaguru, Tanzania, is preoccupied by Staffia Schubert, 1911 (Protista, Foraminifera). A replacement name, Allostaffia, is proposed here.
W.-D. Heinrich
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ROC curve analysis of plasma miR-601 and miR-760.
(A, B, C) MiR-601 yield an AUC of 0.747(95% CI: 0.666–0.828) with 69.2% sensitivity and 72.4% specificity(cut-off value = −11.50), and miR-760 yield an AUC of 0.788(95% CI: 0.714–0.862) with 80.0% sensitivity and 72.4% specificity(cut-off value = −8.09 ...
Qinghua Xu (137673) +9 more
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New or previously unrecorded avian taxa from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany) [PDF]
Three new or from this site previously unrecorded birds are described from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany). Serudaptus pohli n. gen. n. sp.
G. Mayr
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A new species of Cyclotosaurus (Stereospondyli, Capitosauria) from the Late Triassic of Bielefeld, NW Germany, and the intrarelationships of the genus [PDF]
A nearly complete dermal skull roof of a capitosaur stereospondyl with closed otic fenestrae from the middle Carnian Stuttgart Formation (Late Triassic) of Bielefeld-Sieker (NW Germany) is described. The specimen is assigned to the genus Cyclotosaurus
F. Witzmann +4 more
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The German-Tanzanian Tendaguru Expedition 2000 [PDF]
The celebrated fossil locality of Tendaguru (Tanzania, East Africa) has been well known for its unique Late Jurassic dinosaur assemblages since the early decades of the 20th century.
W.-D. Heinrich +10 more
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A Porolepiform Rhipidistian from the Lower Devonian of the Canadian Arctic [PDF]
A holoptychiid fish is described from the Lower Devonian of Arctic Canada. The new form is distinct from other holoptychiids by the presence of a large supraorbital bone and a boomerang-shaped tabular. Nasogaluakus n. gen.
H.-P. Schultze
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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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The youngest trigonotarbid Permotarbus schuberti n. gen., n. sp. from the Permian Petrified Forest of Chemnitz in Germany [PDF]
A new trigonotarbid (Arachnida: Trigonotarbida) is described as Permotarbus schuberti n. gen., n. sp. from the Early Permian Petrified Forest (Rotliegend) of Chemnitz in Saxony (Germany). At ca.
J. A. Dunlop, R. Rößler
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First occurrence of Panthera atrox (Felidae, Pantherinae) in the Mexican state of Hidalgo and a review of the record of felids from the Pleistocene of Mexico [PDF]
Panthera atrox was a common large-sized cat in North America during the late Pleistocene. An isolated lower canine and a fifth metacarpal bone referable to this species were recovered from fluvial Quaternary deposits that outcrop in southeastern ...
V. M. Bravo-Cuevas +3 more
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