Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi gen. et sp. nov., a first nearly complete feather star (Crinoidea) from the Upper Jurassic of Africa [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Fossil comatulids, referred to as feather stars, are mostly known from highly disarticulated specimens. A single isolated element (centrodorsal) has been the basis for taxonomic description of a vast majority of fossil comatulids.
Mariusz A. Salamon +5 more
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Biostratigraphic significance of calcareous dinocysts in the Tithonian of the Pieniny Klippen Belt (southern Poland) [PDF]
PeerJBiostratigraphic studies of pelagic Tithonian limestones in the Western Tethys are important for regional palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, particularly for determining the onset of the accumulation of Maiolica-type sediments which dominated Early ...
Agnieszka Ciurej +3 more
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Insect and Plant Diversity in Hot-Spring Ecosystems during the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary from Spain (Aguilar Fm., Palencia) [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Hydrothermal palaeoenvironments are very uncommon in Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous deposits worldwide. We present new plant and insect remains from travertines formed during the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in northern Spain (Aguilar Fm., Palencia ...
Artai A. Santos +5 more
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Failed prey or peculiar necrolysis? Isolated ammonite soft body from the Late Jurassic of Eichstätt (Germany) with complete digestive tract and male reproductive organs [PDF]
Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2021 Ammonoid soft parts have been rarely described. Here, we document the soft parts of a perisphinctid ammonite from the early Tithonian of Wintershof near Eichstätt (Germany). This exceptional preservation was enabled by the special depositional conditions
Christian Klug +3 more
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Diversity of chondrostean fish Coccolepis from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago, Southern Germany [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 Late Jurassic marine vertebrates are extraordinarily well preserved in several Plattenkalk Lagerstätten in central Europe. Among them, the Solnhofen Archipelago has yielded the very rare fish Coccolepis bucklandi, which was the first fossil ...
ADRIANA LÓPEZ-ARBARELLO, MARTIN EBERT
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First record of chimaeroid fish Ischyodus from the Upper Jurassic of southwestern Gondwana [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 This study presents two specimens of Chimaeriformes from Upper Jurassic strata of central Chile. The material was recovered from Tithonian levels of the Baños del Flaco Formation and includes two different individuals, one preserving two articulated ...
Rodrigo A. Otero +5 more
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The role of forest in geoecological system of the Caucasian Mineral Waters [PDF]
Сибирский лесной журнал, 2021 The created forest plantations of 9424 hectares in the area of nutrition of mineral springs and around the resort towns of the Caucasian Mineral Waters excluded the pollution of ground and surface waters with fertilizers, created conditions for the ...
A. P. Kazankin
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Tracking Late Jurassic ornithopods in the Lusitanian Basin of Portugal: Ichnotaxonomic implications [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 The Sociedade de História Natural in Torres Vedras, Portugal houses an extensive collection of as yet undescribed dinosaur tracks with ornithopod affinities.
Diego Castanera +4 more
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Stratigraphy of the Krš Gradac section (SW Serbia) [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2009 In the Krš Gradac section (near to Sjenica, SW Serbia), a transition of a carbonate platform to basin facies are outcropped: Norian-lower Liassic shallow-water carbonates, middle Liassic-lower Dogger Ammonitico Rosso facies, and upper Bathonian into ...
Radoičić Rajka +2 more
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Geologija, 2020 Two new species of Late Jurassic erymid lobsters, Stenodactylina devillezi sp. nov. and Stenodactylina geigerae sp. nov., are described on the basis of isolated, but well-preserved chelipeds from the upper Kimmeridgian of Swabia and the lower Tithonian
Günter SCHWEIGERT, Jürgen HÄRER
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