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A large new Middle Jurassic ichthyosaur shows the importance of body size evolution in the origin of the Ophthalmosauria
The Middle Jurassic is an important time period for the evolutionary history of marine reptiles as it represented a transitional phase for many...
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Paleophytogeography of the Siberian Paleofloristic Region in the Early Jurassic and First Half of the Middle Jurassic
The results of a comparative analysis of taphofloras of the Early Jurassic and first half of the Middle Jurassic of the Siberian paleofloristic...
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Jurassic Ostracods of the European Part of the Former Soviet Union: Research Challenges and Successes
AbstractInterest in the Mesozoic ostracods of the Russian Plate first emerged in the 1930s due to industrial-scale oil and gas prospecting. This...
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Upscaling the Integrated Terroir Zoning Through Digital Soil Map** Disaggregation: A Case Study in the Designation of Origin Campo de Borja
The terroir zoning method aims to identify and characterise environmental factors influencing vineyard development, such as soil, climate, or...
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Dinosaur Tracks and Trackways from the Upper Jurassic Guará Formation, Paraná Basin, Brazil
The JurassicJurassic Guará FormationGuará formation (Paraná BasinParaná basin) was established in the early 2000's and since then dinosaur tracks and...
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Two new cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Vitisma, Nuurcala) from the Lower Cretaceous sediments of Shar-Tologoy in Mongolia
Despite the abundance of cockroaches ( n = 593 specimens of 18 genera and 30 species) in the Mongolian Cretaceous, there is a single formally...
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Societal Embedding in Geoparks: A Case Study in Portugal
Through the awareness of the geological heritage, a UNESCO Global Geopark provides the region’s inhabitants an opportunity to develop cohesive...
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Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur
Ankylosauria is a diverse clade of armoured dinosaurs whose members were important constituents of many Cretaceous faunas. Phylogenetic analyses...
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Nitrogen isotopes reveal independent origins of N2-fixing symbiosis in extant cycad lineages
Cycads are ancient seed plants (gymnosperms) that emerged by the early Permian. Although they were common understory flora and food for dinosaurs in...
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Ammonoidea: From the Ram’s Horns of the God Jupiter Ammon to the Ammonites
The Ammonoidea constitute a subclass of the Cephalopoda, included in the Phylum Mollusca. They appear in the Devonian and spread in all the seas with...
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An Overview on the Crocodylomorpha Cranial Neuroanatomy: Variability, Morphological Patterns and Paleobiological Implications
An overview of the neuroanatomy and the principal anatomical transformations of the cranial endocast of the main lineages of Crocodylomorpha are...
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A neoceratopsian dinosaur from the early Cretaceous of Mongolia and the early evolution of ceratopsia
Ceratopsia is a diverse dinosaur clade from the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous with early diversification in East Asia. However, the phylogeny of...
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Context of Bakhar Cockroaches
Bakhar represents a more or less standard Jurassic assemblage with the presence of species of Jurassic stage and also several indigenous taxa.
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The Long March of Corals
After providing a brief history of the emergence of Life on the early Earth and of the chemical evolution of the atmosphere and the early ocean,...
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a class or subclass of jawless fish, similar in shape to the heterostracans but more closely related to the osteostracans. They are notable for a...
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Learning from beautiful monsters: phylogenetic and morphogenetic implications of left-right asymmetry in ammonoid shells
BackgroundMany pathologies that modify the shell geometry and ornamentation of ammonoids are known from the fossil record. Since they may reflect the...
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New Data on Dinosaurs of the Crimean Peninsula
Reexamination of the holotype of Riabininohadros weberae from the Upper Cretaceous (upper Maastrichtian) of the Crimean Peninsula (Besh-Kosh) allowed...
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a monospecific genus of marine snakes in the suborder Serpentes and family Simoliophiidae. About 3 feet long, H. terrasanctus is especially notable...
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An early trend towards gigantism in Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs
Dinosaurs dominated the terrestrial ecosystems for more than 140 Myr during the Mesozoic era, and among them were sauropodomorphs, the largest land...
