A forged ‘chimera’ including the second specimen of the protostegid sea turtle Santanachelys gaffneyi and shell parts of the pleurodire Araripemys from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Group of Brazil [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2023 Fossils of Cretaceous sea turtles adapted to an open marine lifestyle remain rare finds to date. Furthermore, the relationships between extant sea turtles, chelonioids, and other Mesozoic marine turtles are still contested, with one key species being ...
Torsten M. Scheyer +6 more
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Anhanguera taxonomy revisited: is our understanding of Santana Group pterosaur diversity biased by poor biological and stratigraphic control? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Anhanguerids comprise an important clade of pterosaurs, mostly known from dozens of three-dimensionally preserved specimens recovered from the Lower Cretaceous Romualdo Formation (northeastern Brazil).
Felipe L. Pinheiro, Taissa Rodrigues
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A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Santana Group in Northeast Brazil has yielded a remarkable discovery: the first filter-feeding pterosaur from the tropics, named Bakiribu waridza gen. et sp. nov.
R. V. Pêgas +5 more
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Aptian archaeoniscid isopod from the Araripe Basin supports Tethyan-linked dispersal into Gondwanan lacustrine systems [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA new genus and species of fossil isopod, Cicero spectabilis n. gen. n. sp. is described from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Nova Olinda Member of the Crato Formation, Araripe Sedimentary Basin, Ceará, northeastern Brazil.
Daniel Lima +4 more
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Journal of Water and Health, 2023 Wastewater released into the environment without proper treatment contributes to the high prevalence of parasitic infections. We aimed to investigate the occurrence of parasites in sewage waters in both rainy and dry seasons in the city of Santana do ...
P. D. Lima +13 more
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Scratching the surface: a new species of Bent-toed gecko (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Cyrtodactylus) from Timor-Leste of the darmandvillei group marks the potential for future discoveries [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 A new species of limestone-dwelling Bent-toed gecko (genus Cyrtodactylus) is described from Nino Konis Santana National Park in the far-east region of Timor-Leste.
Kin Onn Chan +5 more
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Systematic Reviews, 2023 Food-borne diseases are a global public health issue with 1 in 10 people falling ill after eating contaminated food every year. In response, the food industry has implemented several new pathogen control strategies, such as biotechnological tools using ...
Danitza Xiomara Romero-Calle +5 more
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An enigmatic tropical conifer from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaWe describe a new genus of Leliacladus Batista & L.Kunzmann with the type species Leliacladus (Brachyphyllum) castilhoi (Duarte, 1985) Batista & L.Kunzmann gen. nov. et comb.
Maria Edenilce P. Batista +6 more
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Prognostic accuracy of preoperative nutritional indicators of survival in head and neck cancer patients [PDF]
PeerJHead and neck cancer (HNC) patients are known to have high nutritional risk and a high prevalence of malnutrition. The diagnosis of HNC, together with sequelae and other consequences of cancer treatment, directly impacts survival.
Neyara dos Santos Oliveira +6 more
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New brachyuran crabs from the Aptian–Albian Romualdo Formation, Santana Group of Brazil: Evidence for a Tethyan connection to the Araripe Basin [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2018 Despite the exceptional palaeontological richness of the renowned Santana Group from the Early Cretaceous Araripe Basin of Brazil, only one specimen of true crabs (Brachyura) has been discovered to date.
Ludmila A.C. Prado +3 more
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