Search Results - "Spanish journal of palaeontology"

Carboniferous conulariids (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from Ukraine by Ohar, Viktor V., Dernov, Vitaly S.

“…An assemblage of Carboniferous conulariids (Cnidaria) from Ukraine, consisting of Paraconularia inaequicostata (de Koninck, 1883) s.l., P. irregularis (de…”
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First record of a mosasaurid (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Ecuador by Garzon, Domenica N., Arellano, Paul, Toro-Álava, Jorge, Román-Carrión, José Luis, E. Ordoñez, Julián, Andrade, Pamela, Mendoza-Ochoa, Carlos, Ayala, Paula, Oleas, Mateo, Vizcaino, Anthony, Jiménez-Orellana, Nelson Mesías

“…We report the first Upper Cretaceous marine reptile fossil in Ecuador, identified as an incomplete right maxilla from the Mosasauridae family. The remains were…”
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Did large foraging migrations favor the enormous body size of giant sauropods? The case of Turiasaurus by Agusti, Jordi, Alcalá, Luis, Santos-Cubedo, Andrés

“…We propose that the huge sizes attained by many sauropod dinosaurs can be explained in the context of a climate characterized by pronounced seasonal changes…”
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Theropod swim traces in the Santisol tracksite (Lower Cretaceous), Cameros Basin, La Rioja, Spain by Esperante, Raúl, Nick, Kevin E.

“…Swim traces are rare in dinosaur track sites worldwide. This article reports three sets of theropod swim traces found with walking tracks in the Santisol…”
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Taphonomy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of a new amber-bearing outcrop from the mid-Cretaceous of the Maestrazgo Basin (E Iberian Peninsula) by Álvarez-Parra, Sergio, Bueno-Cebollada, Carlos A., Barrón, Eduardo, Pérez-Cano, Jordi, Paredes-Aliaga, María Victoria, Rubio, Cristóbal, Rodrigo, Ana, Meléndez, Nieves, Delclòs, Xavier, Peñalver, Enrique

“…Cretaceous amber-bearing outcrops are numerous and mainly distributed along the Northern Hemisphere. They have been related to extensive resin mass production…”
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Ocean bottom-water oxygenation across the Late Miocene–Early Pliocene biogenic bloom by Gastaldello, Maria Elena, Agnini, Claudia, Alegret, Laia

“…The Late Miocene–Early Pliocene biogenic bloom (ca. 9–3.5 millions of years ago, My) represents a period of globally heightened marine biological productivity…”
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Famennian conodont assemblage in the Compte section (Upper Devonian, Central Pyrenees) and its comparison with Eurasian sequences by Barrera-Lahoz, Héctor, Valenzuela-Ríos, José I., Liao, Jau-Chyn

“…A detailed study of the fossil assemblages of Famennian conodonts has been carried out in the Compte section in the Central Pyrenees. The studied section…”
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Analysing Trophic Competition in †Otodus megalodon and Carcharodon carcharias through 2D-SEM Dental Microwear by Paredes-Aliaga, Maria Victoria, Herraiz, José Luis

“…The extinction of the massive apex predator †Otodus megalodon during the Pliocene is a subject of debate, with climate change and emergence of competitors as…”
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Rhombifera Barrande, 1867, and the origin of the Blastoidea (Echinodermata, Blastozoa) by Paul, Christopher R. C., Lefebvre, Bertrand, Nohejlová, Martina, Zamora, Samuel

“…Rhombifera bohemica Barrande is redescribed from Barrande’s original material and new specimens from Spain and the Czech Republic. Rhombifera had a…”
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Stable isotope analysis evidences dietary changes in toxodontids (Mammalia, Notoungulata) across the Neogene-Quaternary from Argentina by Sanz-Pérez, Dánae, Tomassini, Rodrigo L., Montalvo, Claudia I., Zurita, Alfredo, Hernández Fernández, Manuel, Domingo, Laura

“…Toxodontidae was an extinct family of South American notoungulates, widely studied systematically, but not so much from an ecological perspective. This work…”
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Palaeoecology and palaeobiogeographic relationships of Lower Devonian bryozoans from the Guadámez and Peñón Cortado Sections of Sierra Morena (SW Spain) by Ernst, Andrej, Rodríguez, Sergio

“…Bryozoan fauna from the Lower Devonian (Pragian – Emsian) deposits of the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Spain) comprises twenty-eight species: one cyclostome, two…”
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A new asymmetric rhynchonellide from the Cretaceous of the Eastern Prebetic (Southeastern Spain) by Berrocal-Casero, Mélani, Baeza-Carratalá, José Francisco, García Joral, Fernando

“…The external and internal features and the microstructure of the asymmetric rhynchonellides from the Albian–Cenomanian (Cretaceous) transition from the…”
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Palaeobiological study of the Holocene micromammal assemblage from the Cueva del Hueso (Castrillón, Asturias, NW Spain) by Cernadas-Garrido, Antonio, Álvarez-Vena, Adrián, Álvarez-Lao, Diego

“…The Cueva del Hueso is located in Castrillón, Asturias. In this work, we carried out a taxonomic, palaeoecological and biochronological study of the…”
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Flight Performance of the Early Cretaceous Bird Confuciusornis sanctus: Evidence from an Exceptionally Preserved Fossil by Chiappe, Luis M., Serrano, Francisco J., Abramowicz, Stephanie, Göhlich, Ursula B.

“…The Chinese early Cretaceous Confuciusornis sanctus is the most abundant Mesozoic bird and a model species for studies of early avian evolution. While previous…”
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A new enantiornithine specimen from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas: avifaunal diversity and life-history of a wetland Mesozoic bird by Nebreda, Sergio M., Chiappe, Luis M., Navalon, Guillermo, Chinsamy, Anusuya, Sanz, José L., Buscalioni, Angela D., Marugán-Lobón, Jesús

“…The Lower Cretaceous fossil site of Las Hoyas (Cuenca, Spain) has yielded the richest Cretaceous avifauna of the European continent. We describe a new fossil…”
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Middle Ordovician trilobites from the Castillejo Formation, Eastern Iberian Range (NE Spain): taxonomic reappraisal, biostratigraphy, and correlation by Romero, Sara, Gutiérrez-Marco, Juan Carlos

“…Middle Ordovician trilobites found in 11 fossil localities from the areas of Alpartir, Aladrén, Luesma and Fombuena (Zaragoza province), and south of Calamocha…”
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Dermal skeleton of the stem osteichthyan Ligulalepis from the Lower Devonian of New South Wales (Australia) by Burrow, Carole J., Young, Gavin C., Lu, Jing

“…When first described based on isolated scales, Ligulalepis was assigned to thePalaeoniscoidea, a basal group of actinopterygians (ray-finned fishes). Recent…”
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"Carbonífero de Puertollano" Natural Monument (Puertollano basin, Spain): a window for the knowledge of Early Vertebrates by Soler-Gijón, Rodrigo, Díez Ruiz, Antonio

“…Coal mining at the Puertollano Carboniferous basin has led to the discovery and study of numerous fossiliferous layers, rich in chondrichthyan, actinopterigyan…”
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Teeth and tooth whorls of the stem chondrichthyan Doliodus from the Early Devonian of the Gaspé Sandstone Group, Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, Canada by Burrow, Carole J., Desbiens, Sylvain

“…The Early Devonian (Emsian) vertebrate fauna of the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec (Canada) shows close affinity with the Emsian fauna from the Atholville beds, New…”
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The dentition of Omalodontiformes, the order of unusual Devonian stem-chondrichthyans by Ginter, Michał

“…The early chondrichthyan order Omalodontiformes from the late Early Devonian through to the Late Devonian is characterised by specific teeth. Unlike in most…”
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