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The first Jurassic coelacanth from Switzerland
Coelacanths form a clade of sarcopterygian fish represented today by a single genus, Latimeria . The fossil record of the group, which dates back to...
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Revision of the Middle Triassic coelacanth Ticinepomis Rieppel 1980 (Actinistia, Latimeriidae) with paleobiological and paleoecological considerations
Coelacanths form today an impoverished clade of sarcopterygian fishes, which were somewhat more diverse during their evolutionary history, especially...
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The research history of the Middle Triassic fishes of Monte San Giorgio: getting out of the shadow of aquatic reptiles
Around the middle of the nineteenth century, Italian palaeontologists began to investigate fossils of fishes and reptiles from the Middle Triassic...
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Coelacanth Vestiges
A vestigial second dorsal fin spine in a Carboniferous rhabdodermatid coelacanth (cf. Rhabdoderma sp.) provides new data bearing on the evolutionary...
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The Silurian-Devonian boundary in East Yunnan (South China) and the minimum constraint for the lungfish-tetrapod split
The Silurian-Devonian interval is an essential period in Earth history for witnessing the rise of sarcopterygian fishes and terrestrial vascular...
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The history of palaeontological research and excavations at Monte San Giorgio
There is a long history of palaeontological excavations at Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) and the adjoining Monte Pravello—Monte Orsa (Italy), aimed...
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A Painful Question about Genomic Coding of the Body Plan
AbstractOne of the goals of developmental genetics is to decipher the anatomy of organisms from their genome. The study of Drosophila homeotic...
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Dinosaur Faunas of Egypt—The Terrestrial Late Cretaceous Vertebrate Record
Egypt has yielded some of the richest and most spectacular records of Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates from Africa. Certainly, the best-known and...
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New data on the marine Upper Triassic palaeobiota from the Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in Austria
Here we report new data on the Upper Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Northern Calcarous Alps of Lower Austria. We examined new fossil...
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Lost and Found: The Discovery and Rediscovery of the Hofmeyr Skull
The discovery of the Hofmeyr Skull reminds us that chance is the biggest factor in the uncovering of the fossil evidence for human evolution....
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Culturally Differentiated Paths Towards the Conservation of the Paleontological Heritage at Araripe (NE Brazil) and Arouca (N Portugal) UNESCO Global Geoparks
Fossils are polysemic entities that attract people for very different reasons ranging from scientific to recreational ones. They can therefore...
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Identification of a chitinase from the hepatopancreas of Chinese black sleeper (Bostrychus sinensis)
Chinese black sleeper ( Bostrychus sinensis ) is a fish that lives both in seawater and freshwater, feeds on crustaceans, aquatic insects and...
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Fossilized leftover falls as sources of palaeoecological data: a ‘pabulite’ comprising a crustacean, a belemnite and a vertebrate from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale
Especially in Lagerstätten with exceptionally preserved fossils, we can sometimes recognize fossilized remains of meals of animals. We suggest the...
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iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa
iSimangaliso Wetland Park stretches for 220 km along the eastern shore of South Africa, bathed by the Indian Ocean. It includes a wide range of...
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Albion’s Ænigma
The enigmatic Middle Devonian chordate Palaeospondylus gunni from the the Achannaras Slate Quarry, Caithness, Scotland, has recently been...
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Barasaurus Squamation
New specimens of the procolophonoid parareptile Barasaurus from the Permo-Triassic Sakamena Group of Madagascar show skin preservation in the form of...
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From Coral Triangle to Trash Triangle—How the Hot spot of Global Marine Biodiversity Is Threatened by Plastic Waste
Southeast Asia harbours the highest marine diversity of our planet. At the same time, the countries in the so-called Coral Triangle (CT; Fig. 1) have...
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a Konzentrat-Lagerstätte in Los Angeles that has produced many complete specimens of mammals and birds of the late Pleistocene. The bones are...
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Seventh Law
The seven laws of morphogenetic evolution allow us to better comprehend the constraints and possibilities of evolutionary change. Parity bits of...
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New Data on Carboniferous **phosurans (**phosura, Chelicerata) of the Donets Coal Basin
Descriptions of four xiphosuran species belonging to two genera, Bellinurus Pictet, 1846 and Prestwichianella Woodward, 1918 (currently included in Euproops...