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Occurrence of the large aquatic snake Palaeophis cf. africanus (Serpentes, Palaeophiidae) in the middle Eocene of the Sabkha El Breij, southwestern Morocco
Fadwa Aniny, Georgios L. Georgalis, Philip D. Gingerich & Samir Zouhri
Published online: 21 May 2024
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Overview on the tetrapods from Faixa Nova-Cerrito I site (Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone), Upper Triassic of southernmost Brazil
Matteus Lirio Campo, Fernanda Oliveira da Silva, Voltaire Dutra Paes Neto, Jorge Ferigolo & Ana Maria Ribeiro
Published online: 21 May 2024
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Book review: Evolution of Cenozoic land mammal faunas and ecosystems: 25 years of the NOW database of fossil mammals
by Lars W. van den Hoek OstendeIsaac Casanovas-Vilar, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Christine M. Janis, and Juha Saarinen (eds.), ©2023 by Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, 2023, 231 pp., $129.99, (Hardcover), ISBN 978-3-031-17490-2; $99.00, (e-Book) ISBN 978-3-031-17491-9, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9
P. David Polly
Published online: 20 May 2024
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Ectoparasitic nematodes developing in the integument of a Baltic amber pseudoscorpion
George Poinar
Published online: 19 May 2024
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A new species of Eocene soldier beetle, a Malthodes (Coleoptera: Cantharidae: Malthininae) in Baltic amber
Madeline V. Pankowski & Fabrizio Fanti
Published online: 14 May 2024
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The first record of osoriine rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Eocene Baltic amber
Shûhei Yamamoto, Alfred F. Newton, Evgeny E. Perkovsky & Josh Jenkins Shaw
Published online: 14 May 2024
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Published online: 11 May 2024
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A new species of a snapping turtle (Pan-Chelydridae/Chelydropsis) from the Upper Miocene (MN9, early Vallesian) of Southwest Germany
Irena Pappa, Evangelos Vlachos, Eberhard Frey & George Iliopoulos
Published online: 07 May 2024
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Note on the earliest records of genus Macrocephalites Zittel: implications for biostratigraphic correlations
Sreepat Jain
Published online: 07 May 2024
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New eusuchian cranial remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the southern Pyrenees
Riccardo Rocchi & Bernat Vila
Published online: 07 May 2024
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A Late Cretaceous lizard assemblage from the Allen Formation, northern Patagonia, Argentina
Fernando F. Garberoglio, Raúl O. Gómez, Sebastián Apesteguía & Guillermo W. Rougier
Published online: 04 May 2024
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Southernmost lepidosaur (Reptilia) assemblage from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia
Federico Agnolín, Mauro Aranciaga Rolando, Makoto Manabe, Takanobu Tsuihiji & Fernando E. Novas
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Triassic-Jurassic dinosaurs from India, their ages and palaeobiogeographic significance
Ashu Khosla & Spencer G. Lucas
Published online: 28 Apr 2024
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Notice of formal repository of the remaining teeth of an associated fossil specimen of the megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), to the Saitama Museum of Natural History, Japan
Kenshu Shimada, Yuta Yamaoka, Yukito Kurihara & Yuji Takakuwa
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Wappleria tremoris gen. et sp. nov. the first representative of the insect order Caloneurodea in Spain (León, NW Spain) found in a Late Carboniferous forest
Artai A. Santos, José B. Diez & André Nel
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Late Famennian rhynchonellides (Brachiopoda) of northeast Iran
Valeriy V. Baranov, Mohammad-Reza Kebria-Ee Zadeh & Robert B. Blodgett
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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Non-marine ostracods from the Cretaceous Banyaweol and Geoncheonri formations (Gyeongsang Basin, Korea) in the collections of the Geological Museum, KIGAM: Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoenvironment
Byung-Do Choi & Yaqiong Wang
Published online: 18 Apr 2024
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Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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A theropod tooth from the Missão Velha Formation (Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous) of the Araripe Basin: oldest Brazilian Abelisaurid record
Theo Baptista Ribeiro, Camila Cupello, Diogo de Mayrink, Paulo Victor Luiz Gomes da Costa Pereira & Paulo Machado Brito
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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A reassessment of the historical fossil findings from Bahia State (Northeast Brazil) reveals a diversified dinosaur fauna in the Lower Cretaceous of South America
Kamila L. N. Bandeira, Bruno A. Navarro, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Natan S. Brilhante, Arthur S. Brum, Lucy G. de Souza, Rafael C. da Silva & Valéria Gallo
Published online: 11 Apr 2024
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A new titanosaur from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina
Agustín Pérez-Moreno, Leonardo Salgado, José L. Carballido, Alejandro Otero & Diego Pol
Published online: 10 Apr 2024
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First record of a neobatrachian frog (Lissamphibia: Neobatrachia) from the Eocene–Oligocene Aiuruoca Basin, Brazil
R. O. Santos, A. B. Carvalho & H. Zaher
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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A phoretic pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferidae: Hysterochelifer) from the Mexican amber
Víctor Córdova-Tabares, Francisco Riquelme, Gabriel Villegas-Guzmán, Javier Víctor & Emilio Estrada-Ruiz
Published online: 07 Apr 2024
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The postcranial variability of Quaternary European rhinoceroses: the case study of Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis from the Middle Pleistocene site of Contrada Monticelli (Apulia, southern Italy)
Dario Stefanelli, Beniamino Mecozzi, Maria Marino, Raffaele Sardella & Marzia Breda
Published online: 28 Mar 2024
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Evolving trends in vertebrate palaeontology (2013–2022): a bibliometric analysis using DeepBone and Web of Science databases
Haohan Wang, Daoming Han, Henning Blom, Vincent Dupret & Zhaohui Pan
Published online: 19 Mar 2024
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The oldest Gondwanan record of durophagous shark Strophodus Agassiz, 1838 (Hybodontiformes) from the Kachchh Basin, western India
Suraj Bhosale, Nibedita Rakshit, Abhishek Natarajan, Gaurav Chauhan & Mahesh Thakkar
Published online: 19 Mar 2024
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The second extinct microhisterid species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Bacaniini) described from the Eocene Rovno amber using X-Ray microtomography
Alexander V. Sokolov, Maxim V. Nabozhenko, Evgeniy V. Sadyrin, Dmitry V. Vasilenko & Evgeny E. Perkovsky
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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Pteridium (Dennstaedtiaceae) from Miocene of Patagonia (Río Negro, Argentina): the southernmost evidence of bracken fern in South America
M. A. Machado, A. Yañez, M. G. Passalia, C. Santonja, E. I. Vera, J. Suriano & F. Bechis
Published online: 12 Mar 2024
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Between grasslands, shrublands and forests. Paleoenvironmental and taphonomic implications of micromammals in hunter-gatherer archaeological contexts of Southern Pampean Hills
Julián Mignino, Andrés Izeta & Roxana Cattáneo
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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SEM morphological study on Holotype of Spinicaudatan Shipingia luchangensis (Chen, 1974) comb. nov. From Upper Triassic of Huili, Sichuan, Southwest China
Yan Xue, Gang Li & Xiao Teng
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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The first fossil of a tenebrionoid taxonomic enigma: Agnathus Germar (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae: Agnathinae) in Bitterfeld amber, with remarks about age and geographic origin of the fossil
Vitalii I. Alekseev, Andris Bukejs & Darren A. Pollock
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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A new Middle Eocene Baltic amber Exechiini (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) supports the likely rapid radiation of the tribe
Loup Boudet, Clara Bouché, André Nel & Valérie Ngô-Muller
Published online: 11 Mar 2024
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Palaeontological and taphonomical investigations of the exceptionally rich concentration of Miocene vertebrate coprolites from Pécs-Danitzpuszta (Hungary, Mecsek Mts.)
Zsófia Román, Martin Segesdi, Krisztina Sebe, Tamás Földes, Koraljka Bakrač, Attila Virág & Gábor Botfalvai
Published online: 10 Mar 2024
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Myrmarachne colombiana sp. n. (Araneae: Salticidae), a new species of ant-mimic spider in copal from Colombia, South America
George Poinar
Published online: 07 Mar 2024
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Dental shape evolution of the giant panda (Ailuropoda, Ursidae) during the Quaternary
Qigao Jiangzuo, Zien Huang, Chonghan Yu, Haowen Tong, Bei Zhang, Haiqian Hu, Deyuan Wang, Shiqi Wang & Jinyi Liu
Published online: 07 Mar 2024
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A new species of cow shark (Hexanchiformes: Hexanchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Seymour Island, Antarctica
Rodolfo Otávio dos Santos, Douglas Riff, Renato Rodriguez Cabral Ramos, Igor Fernandes Rodrigues, Sandro Marcelo Scheffler, Paula Andrea Sucerquia & Marcelo de Araújo Carvalho
Published online: 06 Mar 2024
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A late Eocene frog assemblage from the Geste Formation, Puna of north-western Argentina
Raúl O. Gómez, Guillermo F. Turazzini, Daniel A. García-López & M. Judith Babot
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Cambrian palaeoscolecidomorph Cricocosmia caught in the act of moulting
Chiyang Yu, Deng Wang & Jian Han
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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The Upper Permian tubular fossils from South China and their possible affinity to sabellid polychaetes
Jakub Słowiński, Matthew Clapham & Michał Zatoń
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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New record of conifer wood Agathoxylon from the Upper Jurassic in the Sichuan Basin, southern China, and its palaeobiodiversity and palaeoclimatic significance
Aowei Xie, Yongdong Wang, Ning Tian, Zikun Jiang, Xiaoping Xie, Shuna Xi & Dieter Uhl
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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The first mamenchisaurid from the Upper Jurassic Dongxing Formation of Guangxi, southernmost China
Xin-Xin Ren, Xu-Ri Wang, Yan-Nan Ji, Zhen Guo & Qiang Ji
Published online: 22 Feb 2024
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Uncovering hidden footprints: revision of the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) Razorback Beds – home to Australia’s earliest reported dinosaur trackway
Anthony Romilio, Roslyn Dick, Heather Skinner & Janice Millar
Published online: 21 Feb 2024
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Dwarf cornulitid tubeworms from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia
Olev Vinn, Mark A. Wilson, Anna Madison, Andrej Ernst & Ursula Toom
Published online: 21 Feb 2024
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A new Myliobatiformes (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea) from the Miocene of Río Negro Province, Argentina and a review of the fossil Myliobatiformes of Argentina
Julieta J. De Pasqua, Alexis M. Aranciaga Rolando, Federico L. Agnolín, Leandro C. Gaetano & Sergio Bogan
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Sands of time: ancient life in the late miocene of abu dhabi, united arab emirates
by Faysal Bibi, Brian Kraatz, Mark J. Beech and Andrew Hill, ©2023 by Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 359 pp., €119.99 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-030-83882-9; €96.29 (e-Book) ISBN: 978-2-030-83883-6, DOI: 10-1007/978-3-030-83883-6
Lars Werdelin
Published online: 14 Feb 2024
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A new genus of Panguoidea in Lower Cretaceous Wealden amber
Yuhui Zhuang, Jiahao Li, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, Bo Wang & Qingqing Zhang
Published online: 12 Feb 2024
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New Neogene fossil phocid postcranial material from the Atlantic (USA)
Azizah B. Hafed, Irina A. Koretsky, John R. Nance, Lindsey Koper & Sulman J. Rahmat
Published online: 11 Feb 2024
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New Miocene Mexican amber ant (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of the genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839
F. Varela-Hernández & D. Flores-Zapoteco
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Deep-sea fish otoliths from the Lower Miocene Oi and Katada formations, Ichishi Group, Mie Prefecture, central Japan
Yuki Tsuchiya, Werner Schwarzhans, Fumio Ohe & Atsushi Ujihara
Published online: 06 Feb 2024
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Traces of missing encrusters: borings reveal sclerobiont taphonomy in the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of the Cincinnati region, USA
Mark A. Wilson, Caroline J. Buttler & Olev Vinn
Published online: 05 Feb 2024
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