Taphonomy and affinity of an enigmatic Silurian vertebrate, Jamoytius kerwoodi White [PDF]
Palaeontology, 2010 The anatomy and affinities of Jamoytius kerwoodi White have long been controversial, because its complex taphonomy makes unequivocal interpretation impossible with the methodology used in previous studies. Topological analysis, model reconstruction and elemental analysis, followed by anatomical interpretation, allow features to be identified more ...
Robert S Sansom +2 more
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The paleoecology and taphonomy of a Santonian-Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) dinosaur-bearing vertebrate locality from Bulgaria: a window into an underexplored part of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago [PDF]
Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyThe Upper Cretaceous European vertebrate fossil record has improved significantly in the past three decades but there still remain chronostratigraphic and geographic gaps, which obscure our understanding of the paleobiogeography and evolution within the ...
Vladimir Nikolov +3 more
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TAPHONOMY OF SOME VERTEBRATE FOSSILS FROM HEMRIN ANTICLINE, MIDDLE IRAQ
Iraqi Geological Journal, 2018 The study area is located near Injana area; about 140 Km north of Baghdad City, middle Iraq. The Late Miocene – Pliocene site of the Mukdadiya Formation which is exposed in the northeastern limb of Hemrin South Anticline is a good example for ...
Aqeel A. Al-Zubaidi +2 more
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A new toothless pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota with comments on the Chaoyangopteridae [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 The Chaoyangopteridae is a clade of azhdarchoid pterosaurs that stands out in China, particularly in the Jehol Biota, as a Cretaceous group of medium-sized and high-crested pterosaurs. Herein, we describe a new species, Meilifeilong youhao gen.
Xiaolin Wang +13 more
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Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT For over a century, palaeopathology has been used as a tool for understanding evolution, disease in past communities and populations, and to interpret behaviour of extinct taxa. Physical traumas in particular have frequently been the justification for interpretations about aggressive and even competitive behaviours in extinct taxa.
Scott M, Gamble JA, Brown CM, Brink KS.
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The ‘Tully Monster’ is not a vertebrate: characters, convergence and taphonomy in Palaeozoic problematic animals [PDF]
Palaeontology, 2017 AbstractThe affinity ofTullimonstrum gregarium, a pincer‐mouthed, soft bodied bilaterian, has been subject to debate since its recovery from Carboniferous coal deposits at Mazon Creek, Illinois. After decades of impasse focused on mollusc, arthropod and annelid attributes, two recent, yet conflicting, high‐profile studies concluded that the ‘Tully ...
Lauren Sallan +2 more
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Vertebrate Taphonomy and Diagenesis: Implications of Structural and Compositional Alterations of Phosphate Biominerals [PDF]
Minerals (Basel, Switzerland), 2022 Biominerals are recorders of evolution and palaeoenvironments. Predation is one of the most frequent modes leading to the concentration of small vertebrates in fossil assemblages. Consumption by predators produces damages on bones and teeth from prey species, and one of the greatest challenges to taphonomists is differentiating original biological and ...
Yannicke Dauphin, Dauphin Yannicke
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Fossilized anuran soft tissues reveal a new taphonomic model for the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat-Lagerstätte, Germany [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Eocene Geiseltal Konservat-Lagerstätte (Germany) is famous for reports of three dimensionally preserved soft tissues with sub-cellular detail. The proposed mode of preservation, direct replication in silica, is not known in other fossils and has not ...
Daniel Falk +4 more
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Comparative Taphonomy, Taphofacies, and Bonebeds of the Mio-Pliocene Purisima Formation, Central California: Strong Physical Control on Marine Vertebrate Preservation in Shallow Marine Settings [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Taphonomic study of marine vertebrate remains has traditionally focused on single skeletons, lagerstätten, or bonebed genesis with few attempts to document environmental gradients in preservation. As such, establishment of a concrete taphonomic model for
Robert W Boessenecker
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New anatomical information on Dsungaripterus weii Young, 1964 with focus on the palatal region [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Pterosaur specimens with complete and well-preserved palatal region are rare. Here we describe new and previously collected specimens of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Dsungaripterus weii that are three-dimensionally preserved and provide new anatomical ...
He Chen +7 more
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