The first remains of Miocene reptiles from Moravia
Description of the first remains of a crocodile and a sea turtle from the Middle Miocene locality of Kienberg in the Moravian part of Czechia.
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New specimens of rare plesiosaurs from the Pliensbachian of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
The Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic, ∼192.9–184.2 Ma) plesiosaurs are poorly understood…
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Reconstructions of sea temperatures from millions of years ago
Fossilized marine calcifiers provide key data for reconstructing ancient seawater temperatures…
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Wilhelm Friedberg’s Collections in Lviv
Wilhelm Friedberg (1873–1941) was a Polish naturalist focussing on Miocene geology and palaeontology…
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Recovery of ecosystems after the Taghanic extinction
Kyrtatrypa pauli, a new Givetian brachiopod species from Świętomarz and Laskowa in the Holy Cross Mountains, is described.
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Impact of whaling on the environment
As late as in the mid-1960s, whales were still being intensively harvested and processed in South Georgia.
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Coprolites are key to understanding the origin of dinosaurs
Hundreds of fossils with direct evidence of foraging were used to compare the trophic dynamics of five vertebrate communities…
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Triassic fish from the Dolomites
Where the Dolomites stand today, about 235 million years ago there was a warm sea with many coral reefs.
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Anatomy of the cervical vertebrae in tenysaurians
Bones with large hollow spaces are one of the characteristic features of dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurs.Bones with large hollow spaces are one of the characteristic features of dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurs.
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Microstructure study of sauropod bone from Mongolia
A sauropod femur found in 1963 in the Baynshire Formation (Cenomanian–Santonian) in Mongolia had been identified as belonging to a subadult representative of Titanosauriformes.
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