Morphological convergence of the coral skeleton
Turbinoliidae are a group of solitary scleractinian corals (suborder Refertina) with small conical coralla…
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Distinguishing biogenic carbonates
Biogenic minerals (biominerals) differ in structure and biogeochemical composition from their abiotic counterparts.
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A monograph on the Mesozoic crinoids of Africa and Asia
The first monographic study of several dozen crinoid taxa (including one new species) from the Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments of Africa and Asia (southern Tethys).
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The last shallow-water stem crinoids
Recent stalked crinoids exclusively live at considerable depths, but in the geological past they were common in shallow-marine environments.
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Deep-water fauna from the Eocene flysch from Buje (Croatia)
They are composed chiefly of chemosymbiotic lucinid and thyasirid bivalves.
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Zalambdalestes lechei, a Late Cretaceous mammal from Mongolia
An international team analysed functional morphology of the neck and paleoecology of the Late Cretaceous eutherian mammal Zalambdalestes lechei from Mongolia.
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A new species of mixosaur from China
Mixosaurs were a group of ichthyosaurs from the Middle Triassic.
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Untangling deep-sea corals systematics
The paper documents another stage in elucidating the phylogenetic relationships among traditionally understood Caryophylliidae…
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Saurodesmus robertsoni – the oldest Scottish cynodont
184 years ago, a small bone was discovered in the Triassic of Scotland…
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Caries in Pliocene rodents
At the site of Węże 2 near Działoszyn in Łódź Voivodeship numerous remains of mammals and other vertebrates dating from the Pliocene (over 2.5 million years ago) were found.
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