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Living Taxa and Their Importance in Understanding the Extinct Diversity: A Look at Polypterid Pinnules by Coelho, Marcos Vinícius, Cupello, Camila, Brito, Paulo M, Otero, Olga

“…Pinnules are the peculiar, impaired spines that carry each of the numerous finlets that constitute the dorsal fins of polypterid fishes (Cladistia and…”
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Seasonality and growth in tropical freshwater ectotherm vertebrates: Results from 1‐year experimentation in the African gray bichir, giraffe catfish, and the West African mud turtle by Gardin, Axelle, Otero, Olga, Réveillac, Elodie, Lafitte, Alexandra, Valentin, Xavier, Lapalus, Florian, Bouchon, Didier, Garcia, Géraldine

“…Growth in ectotherm vertebrates is strongly rhythmed by seasonal variation in environmental parameters. To track the seasonal variation in ancient times in a…”
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A Fish Assemblage from the Middle Eocene from Libya (Dur At-Talah) and the Earliest Record of Modern African Fish Genera by Otero, Olga, Pinton, Aurélie, Cappetta, Henri, Adnet, Sylvain, Valentin, Xavier, Salem, Mustapha, Jaeger, Jean-Jacques

“…In the early nineteen sixties, Arambourg and Magnier found some freshwater fish (i.e., Polypterus sp., Siluriformes indet. and Lates sp.) mixed with marine…”
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Sorbinicharax verraesi: An unexpected case of a benthic fish outside Acanthomorpha in the Upper Cretaceous of the Tethyan Sea by Mayrinck, Diogo, Brito, Paulo M, Meunier, François J, Alvarado-Ortega, Jesus, Otero, Olga

“…†Sorbinicharax verraesi is a marine teleostean fish from the Upper Cretaceous of Nardò (Italy). It was first attributed to the otophysan order Characiformes,…”
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Anatomical review of †Salminops ibericus, a Teleostei incertae sedis from the Cenomanian of Portugal, anciently assigned to Characiformes and possibly related to crossognathiform fishes by Mayrinck, Diogo, Brito, Paulo M., Otero, Olga

“…†Salminops ibericus Gayet, 1985 was described on the basis of a single specimen from the Cenomanian deposits of Caranguejeira, a marine locality northern…”
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The Phylogenetic Intrarelationships of Spiny-Rayed Fishes (Acanthomorpha, Teleostei, Actinopterygii): Fossil Taxa Increase the Congruence of Morphology with Molecular Data by Davesne, Donald, Gallut, Cyril, Barriel, Véronique, Janvier, Philippe, Lecointre, Guillaume, Otero, Olga

“…Acanthomorpha (spiny-rayed fishes) is a clade of teleosts that includes more than 15, 000 extant species. Their deep phylogenetic intrarelationships, first…”
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Anatomy, systematics and phylogeny of both Recent and fossil latid fishes (Teleostei, Perciformes, Latidae) by OTERO, OLGA

“…The anatomical investigation of the osteology of both fossil and Recent species of the so‐called Centropomidae was conducted with three aims: of improving the…”
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Biominerals Fossilisation: Fish Bone Diagenesis in Plio–Pleistocene African Hominid Sites of Malawi by Christiane Denys, Olga Otero, Ottmar Kullmer, Oliver Sandrock, Timothy G. Bromage, Friedemann Schrenk, Yannicke Dauphin

“…Fish fossilisation is relatively poorly known, and skeletal element modifications resulting from predation, burial and diagenesis need to be better…”
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Current knowledge and new assumptions on the evolutionary history of the African lungfish, Protopterus, based on a review of its fossil record by Otero, Olga

“…Lungfish have a large fossil record that started over 400 Ma ago and a relict modern diversity within Australia, Africa and South America. Their study mostly…”
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Tungiasis en el área urbana de Popayán, Colombia: reporte de caso by Ortega-Narváez, Alicia, Vásquez-Arteaga, Luis Reinel, Cujar-Otero, Olga, Madroñero Daza, Jehyson, Cabra-Bautista, Ginna

“…La tungiasis es una ectoparasitosis endémica en Latinoamérica y está asociada a factores de riesgo como la ruralidad, la pobreza y la convivencia con animales…”
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Taxonomical use of scale ornamentation: Challenges by intraspecific and intra‐individual variations in four adult specimens of Polypterus bichir by Coelho, Marcos Vinícius, Cupello, Camila, Brito, Paulo M., Otero, Olga

“…Many actinopterygian fish groups, including fossil and extant polypteriforms and lepisosteiforms, fossil halecomorphs, and some basal teleosts, have stout bony…”
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Current knowledge and new assumptions on the evolutionary history of the African lungfish, Protopterus , based on a review of its fossil record: Protopterus fossils and their evolution by Otero, Olga

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A New Species of Lates (Perciformes, Latidae) from the Late Miocene of Ukraine and Notes on the Latest Records of Lates Perches in the Eastern Paratethys by Kovalchuk, Oleksandr, Otero, Olga, Barkaszi, Zoltán, Murray, Alison M., Divay, Julien D.

“…The family Latidae is considered to have originated in marine waters of the Tethys, and the fossil record of this group indicates a widespread occurrence of…”
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The phylogenetic origin and evolution of acellular bone in teleost fishes: insights into osteocyte function in bone metabolism by Davesne, Donald, Meunier, François J., Schmitt, Armin D., Friedman, Matt, Otero, Olga, Benson, Roger B. J.

“…ABSTRACT Vertebrate bone is composed of three main cell types: osteoblasts, osteoclasts and osteocytes, the latter being by far the most numerous. Osteocytes…”
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Origin and diversification of the Otophysi clade during the Mesozoic: a case of mosaic evolution? by Diogo Mayrinck, Paulo M. Brito, Jesus Alvarado-Ortega, Olga Otero

“…Almost all distributed today in freshwater, except by few taxa that inhabited coastal marine waters, the Otophysi clade is a group of teleostean with a…”
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Climate-inferred distribution estimates of mid-to-late Pliocene hominins by Gibert, Corentin, Vignoles, Anaïs, Contoux, Camille, Banks, William E., Barboni, Doris, Boisserie, Jean-Renaud, Chavasseau, Olivier, Fluteau, Frédéric, Guy, Franck, Noûs, Camille, Otero, Olga, Sepulchre, Pierre, Souron, Antoine, Ramstein, Gilles

“…During the mid-to-late Pliocene (ca. 4–3 Ma), several hominin species were present in central Sahel, eastern and southern Africa. The potential for the…”
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Evaluation of the Fossil Fish-Specific Diversity in a Chadian Continental Assemblage: Exploration of Morphological Continuous Variation in Synodontis (Ostariophysi, Siluriformes): PAST DIVERSITY IN THE FISH FOSSIL RECORD by Pinton, Aurélie, Le Fur, Soizic, Otero, Olga

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Stable oxygen isotopes of crocodilian tooth enamel allow tracking Plio-Pleistocene evolution of freshwater environments and climate in the Shungura Formation (Turkana Depression, Ethiopia) by Gardin, Axelle, Pucéat, Emmanuelle, Garcia, Géraldine, Boisserie, Jean-Renaud, Euriat, Adélaïde, Joachimski, Michael M, Nutz, Alexis, Schuster, Mathieu, Otero, Olga

“…This study adopts a new approach describing palaeohydrology and palaeoclimates based on the interpretation of stable oxygen isotopes (δ18Op) recorded in fossil…”
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Early fossils illuminate character evolution and interrelationships of Lampridiformes (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) by Davesne, Donald, Friedman, Matt, Barriel, Véronique, Lecointre, Guillaume, Janvier, Philippe, Gallut, Cyril, Otero, Olga

“…Lampridiformes is a peculiar clade of pelagic marine acanthomorph (spiny‐rayed) teleosts. Its phylogenetic position remains ambiguous, and varies depending on…”
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Early fossils illuminate character evolution and interrelationships of Lampridiformes (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) by Davesne, Donald, Friedman, Matt, Barriel, Véronique, Lecointre, Guillaume, Janvier, Philippe, Gallut, Cyril, Otero, Olga

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