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A New Specimen of Sand Pseudomorph Dinosaur Bones with Tetrapod Tracks from the Early Jurassic, Hartford Basin, USA
Mark R. Agostini, Peter Lars Larson, Mark A.S. McMenamin, Donald A. Slater & Spencer G. Lucas
Published online: 03 Jul 2023
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Late Miocene ‘Martes’ lydekkeri (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mustelidae) from the Hasnot outcrops Punjab, Pakistan
Khalid Mahmood, Michael Morlo, Muhammad A. Khan & Sayyed G. Abbas
Published online: 02 Jul 2023
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Neogene communal rodent burrow systems from central Argentina
M. Cristina Cardonatto, Silverio Feola & Ricardo N. Melchor
Published online: 02 Jul 2023
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Equisetaleans from the Bajo de Veliz Formation (Gzhelian-Asselian): a new key in the evolution of Gondwanan reproductive structures
Johana A. Fernández & Silvia N. Césari
Published online: 29 Jun 2023
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A new pterosaur specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China: The oldest fossil record of Nurhachius
Masanori Ozeki, David M. Unwin, Phil R. Bell, Daqing Li & Lida Xing
Published online: 26 Jun 2023
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The largest record of the minute beaver Euroxenomys minutus (Mammalia, Castoridae) from the early Late Miocene hominid locality Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Southern Germany) and palaeoecological considerations
Thomas Lechner & Madelaine Böhme
Published online: 26 Jun 2023
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Tessellated calcified cartilage and placoid scales of the Neogene megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), offer new insights into its biology and the evolution of regional endothermy and gigantism in the otodontid clade
Kenshu Shimada, Yuta Yamaoka, Yukito Kurihara, Yuji Takakuwa, Harry M. Maisch IV, Martin A. Becker, Robert A. Eagle & Michael L. Griffiths
Published online: 23 Jun 2023
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A fossil Valginae species from the Upper Miocene of France (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
André Nel
Published online: 20 Jun 2023
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First record of the genus Eulomalus (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from late Eocene Baltic amber
Jan Simon-Pražák, Jakub Prokop & Tomáš Lackner
Published online: 19 Jun 2023
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The first galeaspid fish (stem-gnathostomata) from the Silurian Xiushan formation of Hunan Province, China
Yumeng Zhang, Xutong Li, Xianren Shan, Xianghong Lin, Kai Tan, Qiang Li, Wenjin Zhao, Lizhou Tang, Min Zhu & Zhikun Gai
Published online: 19 Jun 2023
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Gazelles (Mammalia: Bovidae) from the early Pleistocene Tianzhen area, Shanxi Province, China
Weipeng Bai, Xiaomin Wang & Wei Dong
Published online: 19 Jun 2023
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New fossil remains of Rhinocerotidae (Perissodactyla) from the early Late Miocene Tebingan area, central Myanmar
Morgane Longuet, Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein, Thaung-Htike, Man-Thit-Nyein & Masanaru Takai
Published online: 19 Jun 2023
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Two new genera of giant lacewings (Insecta, Neuroptera, Ithonidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China
Wei Gao, Yifan Xu, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren & Yongjie Wang
Published online: 18 Jun 2023
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Importance and role of neotaphonomic collections: the example of microvertebrate and experimental collection management
Denys Christiane, Stoetzel Emmanuelle, Linchamps Pierre, Fernandez-Jalvo Yolanda & Peter Andrews
Published online: 18 Jun 2023
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Paleopathology in Brazilian fossil vertebrates: a review
Renan Martins, Francine Kurzawe & Cristina Silveira Vega
Published online: 15 Jun 2023
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Compositional and taphonomic gradients show fluctuating depositional conditions on Middle Jurassic brachiopod-rich accumulations from Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria–Germany)
Fernando García Joral, José F. Baeza-Carratalá & Alice Giannetti
Published online: 15 Jun 2023
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A new species of Cerylonidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) described from Baltic amber using X-Ray microtomography
Joseph V. McHugh, Adam Ślipiński, Maxim V. Nabozhenko, Evgeny E. Perkovsky & Evgeniy V. Sadyrin
Published online: 14 Jun 2023
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The Sangonghe biota in the Junggar Basin, NW China: age constraints and climate implications
Jiahao Li, Yanan Fang, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, Ting Li, Xiao Teng, Qianqi Zhang, Jungang Peng & Jingeng Sha
Published online: 14 Jun 2023
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Danian-Ypresian dinocyst biostratigraphy, fish fauna and depositional environment of the Akli Formation, Barmer Basin, western India
Prem Raj Uddandam, Vivesh V. Kapur, Shalini Parmar, Mahi Bansal, M. C. Manoj, Anupam Sharma & Vandana Prasad
Published online: 12 Jun 2023
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Biodiversity of †pycnodonts (Actinopterygii) during the Cenomanian–Turonian (Upper Cretaceous)
Luigi Capasso
Published online: 11 Jun 2023
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Riches of the Roma valley: theropod and ornithischian tracks from the Early Jurassic southern Africa
Miengah Abrahams, Akhil Rampersadh & Loyce Mpangala
Published online: 09 Jun 2023
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Taphonomic analysis of the Rosario Mine (Valdeteja Formation, Bashkirian, NW Spain): evidence of tsunamis or cyclones
Isabel Rodríguez-Castro, M. A. Fregenal, S. Rodríguez & F. J. González
Published online: 09 Jun 2023
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Fossil endocasts of two Pleistocene bovines (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the Upper Siwaliks of northern India
Aatreyee Saha & Sunil Bajpai
Published online: 09 Jun 2023
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Neanderthal brown crab recipes: A combined approach using experimental, archaeological and ethnographic evidence
Mariana Nabais, Rodrigo Portero & João Zilhão
Published online: 06 Jun 2023
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Study on the new dental material of Palaeotragus from the Late Miocene of Linxia Basin (Gansu, China)
Yuan Zhang & Sukuan Hou
Published online: 05 Jun 2023
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New records of the subgenus Atomaria (Anchicera) Thomson, 1863 from European amber with description of the new species
G. Yu. Lyubarsky, E.E. Perkovsky & D.V. Vasilenko
Published online: 31 May 2023
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Early Jurassic theropod elongate tracks with metatarsal marks from Yunnan, China
Lida Xing, Jens N. Lallensack, Anthony Romilio, Yi Wang & Lei Yang
Published online: 31 May 2023
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Oldest pterosaur remains from Australia: evidence from the Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) Eumeralla Formation of Victoria
Adele H. Pentland, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas H. Rich, Samantha L. Rigby & Stephen F. Poropat
Published online: 30 May 2023
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Flourishing chancelloriids from the Cambrian Kaili Biota of South China
Tingzu Peng, Yuning Yang, Hao Yun, Xinglian Yang, Qianqian Zhang, Min He, Xiangri Chi, Jing Liu & Xi Liu
Published online: 30 May 2023
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An additional remain of Pliocene Rhinocerotidae from Ajimu, western Japan
Naoto Handa, Takafumi Kato, Keiichi Takahashi, Rika Baba & Eiichi Kitabayashi
Published online: 29 May 2023
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Cranial osteology of Bajadasaurus pronuspinax (Sauropoda, Dicraeosauridae)
Juan P. Garderes, Pablo A. Gallina, John A. Whitlock & Nestor Toledo
Published online: 28 May 2023
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Sedimentological and stratigraphically controlled preservation styles and distribution of fossil cetaceans from a new Early Miocene fossiliferous locality, Patagonia, Argentina
Nicolás D. Farroni, José I. Cuitiño, Damián E. Pérez & Mónica R. Buono
Published online: 25 May 2023
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A new pachyrukhine (Notoungulata: Typotheria) from the late Early Miocene of south-central Chile
Andrés Solórzano, Alfonso Encinas, Alejandro Kramarz, Gabriel Carrasco, Mónica Núñez-Flores & René Bobe
Published online: 24 May 2023
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Nomenclatural status of Orbitolina pileus Fossa-Mancini 1928 (Foraminifera) (junior synonym Palorbitolinoides orbiculatus Zhang 1986) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Himalaya (Ladakh, Tibet)
Felix Schlagintweit
Published online: 24 May 2023
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Geographical, temporal variability and sexual size dimorphism of mandible in cave lion (Panthera spelaea) across Northern Eurasia
Andrey Yu. Puzachenko & Gennady F. Baryshnikov
Published online: 22 May 2023
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Evolution of brachiopod symbiosis in the early Paleozoic
Olev Vinn, Lars E. Holmer & Mark A. Wilson
Published online: 20 May 2023
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New records of dinosaur tracks in eastern Tibet and a review of Middle Jurassic dinosaur faunas from the eastern Tethys, southwest China
Lida Xing, Hendrik Klein, Martin G. Lockley, Haipeng Li, Bolin Tong, Yong Ye, Hui Dai, Chou Chunyong, Donghao Wang, Anthony Romilio & W. Scott Iv Persons
Published online: 17 May 2023
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Osteohistological characterization and ontogeny of Caiuajara dobruskii (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae)
Esaú Victor de Araújo, Renan Alfredo Machado Bantim, Borja Holgado, Juliana Manso Sayão, Luiz Carlos Weinschütz & Alexander Kellner
Published online: 17 May 2023
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Revealing new trilobites from the early Devonian alto garças sub-basin, Brazil
Gilmar Kerber, Mírian Liza A. F. Pacheco, Rodrigo Scalise Horodyski & Gustavo Graciolli
Published online: 09 May 2023
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An extralimital fossil of the genus Diagrypnodes (Coleoptera: Salpingidae: Inopeplinae)
Josh Jenkins Shaw, Evgeny Perkovsky, Adam Ślipiński, Hermes Escalona & Alexey Solodovnikov
Published online: 09 May 2023
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Corals and Reefs; From the Beginning to an Uncertain Future
by Bertrand Martin-Garin and Lucien F. Montaggioni, (2023) ©2023 by Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023, 166 pp., Print ISBN 978-3-031-16886-4 |Online ISBN 978-3-031-16887-1 |DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-16,887-1 (Precio: Hardcover €129.99, e-Book € 106.99)
Miftahul Akhyar Ghofari & Jean Valeri Theresa Hetharia
Published online: 09 May 2023
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How to quantify taphonomic alteration? A novel index for fossil fish collections
Carla San Román, Óscar Cambra-Moo & Hugo Martín-Abad
Published online: 05 May 2023
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Early Mid-Pleistocene mammal fauna from Yanlidong Cave, South China
Yanyan Yao, Yaobin Fan, Christopher J. Bae, Chun Tian, Hua Liang, Jun Chen, Bei Zhang, Shanshan Wei, Qingfeng Shao, Wei Liao & Wei Wang
Published online: 03 Mar 2023
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Prehistoric snake bones from Zuojiang River Basin, Guangxi, China
Jing-Song Shi, Jing Li, Qing-Ping Yang, Ning Liu & Xi Chen
Published online: 22 Jan 2023
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Early Pleistocene large-mammal assemblage associated with Gigantopithecus at Chuifeng Cave, Bubing Basin, South China
Wei Liao, Hua Liang, Jinyan Li & Wei Wang
Published online: 03 Jan 2023
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Early Pliocene fossil snakes (Squamata, Colubroidea) with various teeth from the fissure deposit in Queshan, Henan, China
Jingsong Shi, Yuan Wang, Kevin Robert Messenger, Qigao Jiangzuo, Yu Chen & Changzhu Jin
Published online: 02 Jan 2023
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Taphonomy and biochronology of the Late Pleistocene mammalian fauna at Baolai cave, in Bubing Basin, southern China
Yaobin Fan, Jinyan Li, Ruibo Gong, Guanjun Shen, Wei Liao & Wei Wang
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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New discovery of a late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna in Ganxian Cave, Southern China
Hua Liang, Wei Liao, Qingfeng Shao, Qiong Chen, Chun Tian, Yanyan Yao, Jinyan Li & Wei Wang
Published online: 06 Nov 2022
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Multiproxy record of climate change during the late quaternary and human adaptive response at the Bailian Cave, Guangxi, South China
Dawei Li, Yuanjin Jiang, Liang Ye, Meng Zhang & Yuduan Zhou
Published online: 20 Oct 2022
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New material of Stephanorhinus (Rhinocerotidae, Mammalia) from Jinyuan Cave, Luotuo Hill in Dalian, Northeast China
Boyang Sun, Yaling Yan, Changzhu Jin, Xichao Dai & Yuan Wang
Published online: 10 Oct 2022
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