Parallel evolution controlled by adaptation and covariation in ammonoid cephalopods [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background A major goal in evolutionary biology is to understand the processes that shape the evolutionary trajectory of clades. The repeated and similar large-scale morphological evolutionary trends of distinct lineages suggest that adaptation by means ...
Klug Christian +2 more
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Hidden diversity in waterfall environments: The genus Acrorbis (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) from the Upper-Paraná Atlantic Forest. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 High-energy freshwater environments such as rapids and waterfalls in the Upper-Paraná Atlantic Forest are home to highly endemic minute freshwater snails of the genus Acrorbis. Only one species, Acrorbis petricola, is currently included within this genus,
Vogler RE +6 more
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UV Light Reveals the Diversity of Jurassic Shell Colour Patterns: Examples from the Cordebugle Lagerstätte (Calvados, France) [PDF]
, 2015 Viewed under UV light the diverse and exceptionally well-preserved molluscs from the Late Jurassic Cordebugle Konservat Lagerstätte (Calvados, Normandy, France) reveal fluorescent fossil shell colour patterns predating the oldest previously known ...
Caze, Bruno +2 more
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Taxonomy and palaeoecology of continental Gastropoda (Mollusca) from the Late Pleistocene mammoth-bearing site of Bullendorf in NE Austria [PDF]
, 2018 We present a taxonomic and palaeoecological analysis of a continental mollusc fauna from a mammoth-bearing succession near Bullendorf in Lower Austria.
Carobene, Daria +3 more
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Revision of Dadagulella gen. nov., the “Gulella radius group” (Gastropoda: Streptaxidae) of the eastern Afrotropics, including six new species and three new subspecies [PDF]
, 2013 The genus Dadagulella gen. nov. is described to include 16 species of small, dentate, ovateacuminate Afrotropical snails. An identification key is provided and biogeography, anatomy and systematics are discussed. The type species is the Kenyan D. radius (
Rowson, Ben, Tattersfield, Peter
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Early Miocene gastropod and ectothermic vertebrate remains from the Lesvos Petrified Forest (Greece) [PDF]
, 2017 The Lesvos Petrified Forest (western Lesvos, Greece) has long been famous for its plant fossils. Recently, one proboscidean (from the Gavathas locality) and seven micromammalian species (from the Lapsarna locality) were described; these were the first
Böhme, Madelaine +6 more
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Timing, cause and impact of the late Eocene stepwise sea retreat from the Tarim Basin (west China) [PDF]
, 2014 International audienceA vast shallow epicontinental sea extended across Eurasia and was well-connected to the Western Tethys before it retreated westward and became isolated as the Paratethys Sea.
Bosboom, Roderic +10 more
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Marine Neogene Samples from around Tasmania: an extension to the Miocene/Pliocene marine record in Tasmania [PDF]
, 1994 New Miocene and Quaternary foraminiferid faunas have been recovered from previously unrecorded localities onshore near Penguin and Strahan, and at nine offshore localities off northwestern, northeastern and southeastern Tasmania.
Quilty, PG, Telfer, A
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THE SANGIRAN FOSSIL SHELL ASSEMBLAGES CATALOGUE [PDF]
, 2020 Abstrak. Katalog Himpunan Fosil Kerang Sangiran. Makalah ini merupakan pemutakhiran himpunan fosil cangkang Sangiran di Jawa Tengah. Tujuannya untuk mendokumentasikan dan menyajikan gastropoda dan kerang dari seri Kalibeng atas dan Pucangan Bawah ...
Adityas, Metta +4 more
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PALAEONTOLOGY OF THE UPPER PLIOCENE MARINE DEPOSITS OF RIO VACCARUZZA, VILLALVERNIA (PIEDMONT, NW ITALY) [PDF]
, 2022 . The topmost Argille Azzurre (beds 1-2) and the basal Sabbie di Asti (beds 3-9) formations in the Villalvernia area are analysed in terms of palaeoecological and taxonomic features; the succession is 6 m thick and dates back to the middle Piacenzian ...
CARNEVALE, GIORGIO +5 more
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