Variable preservation potential and richness in the fossil record of vertebrates
Palaeontology, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 313-329, March 2020., 2020 Abstract Variation in preservation and sampling probability clouds our estimates of past biodiversity. The most extreme examples are Lagerstätten faunas and floras. Although such deposits provide a wealth of information and represent true richness better than other deposits, they can create misleading diversity peaks because of their species richness ...
Fiona M. Walker +3 more
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Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and biostratinomic analysis of the Jurassic Yanliao Lagerstätte in northeastern China [PDF]
, 2018 The Middle-Upper Jurassic Yanliao Lagerstätte contains numerous exceptionally preserved fossils of aquatic and land organisms, including insects, salamanders, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and mammaliaforms.
Benton, Michael J. +8 more
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New cleroid beetles from the Middle–Late Jurassic of China [PDF]
, 2019 Four specimens of fossil beetles recorded from the Middle and Late Jurassic boundary beds of Inner Mongolia, China are assigned to the melyrid lineage of Cleroidea. Three of them are described as Sinomelyris praedecessor gen. et sp. nov.
Diying Huang, Jiří Kolibáč
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European Journal of Entomology, 2018 A new fossil genus and species of Sinoalidae, Stictocercopis wuhuaensis gen. et sp. n., from the Middle to Upper Jurassic Haifanggou Formation at Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, northeastern China is described, illustrated and its systematic position discussed,
Yan-Zhe FU, Di-Ying HUANG
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European Journal of Entomology, 2017 A new progonocimicid bug named Cicadocoris parvus sp. n. is described from the mid-Jurassic Haifanggou Formation at Daohugou, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.
Jia-Qian JIANG, Di-Ying HUANG
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Intraskeletal histovariability, allometric growth patterns, and their functional implications in bird-like dinosaurs [PDF]
, 2018 With their elongated forelimbs and variable aerial skills, paravian dinosaurs, a clade also comprising modern birds, are in the hotspot of vertebrate evolutionary research.
Adriaens, Dominique +3 more
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Theropod guild structure and the tyrannosaurid niche assimilation hypothesis: implications for predatory dinosaur macroecology and ontogeny in later Late Cretaceous Asiamerica. [PDF]
, 2021 Well-sampled dinosaur communities from the Jurassic through the early Late Cretaceous show greater taxonomic diversity among larger (>50 kg) theropod taxa than communities of the Campano-Maastrichtian, particularly to those of eastern/central Asia and ...
Holtz, Thomas Richard Jr +1 more
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Chemical preservation of tail feathers from Anchiornis huxleyi, a theropod dinosaur from the Tiaojishan Formation (Upper Jurassic, China) [PDF]
, 2020 A panel of geochemical techniques is used here to investigate the taphonomy of fossil feathers preserved in association with the skeleton of the Jurassic theropod Anchiornis huxleyi.
Arai K. M. +15 more
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Quantitative investigation of pengornithid enantiornithine diet reveals macrocarnivorous ecology evolved in birds by Early Cretaceous [PDF]
, 2023 The diet of Mesozoic birds is poorly known, limiting evolutionary understanding of birds’ roles in modern ecosystems. Pengornithidae is one of the best understood families of Mesozoic birds, hypothesized to eat insects or only small amounts of meat.
Bright, Jen A. +4 more
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Schmeissneria: A missing link to angiosperms? [PDF]
, 2007 BACKGROUND: The origin of angiosperms has been under debate since the time of Darwin. While there has been much speculation in past decades about pre-Cretaceous angiosperms, including Archaefructus, these reports are controversial.
Cui, Jinzhong +4 more
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