First true mastodon from the Late Miocene of Iran
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by Sadaf Yaghoubi, Ali Reza Ashouri, Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi and Abbas Ghaderi
20h ago
A mammutid is described here for the first time from the Late Miocene (MN12 equivalent) deposits of Abkhareh village, Varzeghan region, in the North-Western part of Iran. It is identified as “Mammut” cf. obliquel ..read more
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Orthoceratoid and coleoid cephalopods from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland with an updated taxonomic framework for Triassic Orthoceratoidea
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by Alexander Pohle and Christian Klug
2w ago
Orthoconic cephalopods are subordinate, but persistent, widespread and regionally abundant components of Triassic marine ecosystems. Here, we describe unpublished specimens from the Anisian (Middle Triassic) B ..read more
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A redescription of Trachelosaurus fischeri from the Buntsandstein (Middle Triassic) of Bernburg, Germany: the first European Dinocephalosaurus-like marine reptile and its systematic implications for long-necked early archosauromorphs
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by Stephan N. F. Spiekman, Martín D. Ezcurra, Adam Rytel, Wei Wang, Eudald Mujal, Michael Buchwitz and Rainer R. Schoch
1M ago
Some of the earliest members of the archosaur-lineage (i.e., non-archosauriform archosauromorphs) are characterised by an extremely elongated neck. Recent fossil discoveries from the Guanling Formation (Middle ..read more
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Digital skull anatomy of the Oligocene North American tortoise Stylemys nebrascensis with taxonomic comments on the species and comparisons with extant testudinids of the Gopherus–Manouria clade
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by Serjoscha W. Evers and Zahra Al Iawati
1M ago
The anatomy of North American tortoises is poorly understood, despite a rich fossil record from the Eocene and younger strata. Stylemys nebrascensis is a particularly noteworthy turtle in this regard, as hundreds ..read more
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Bernhard Peyer and his discoveries of Triassic vertebrates in Switzerland
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by Hans-Dieter Sues
1M ago
Bernhard Peyer (1885–1963) was a prominent Swiss vertebrate palaeontologist and anatomist at the University of Zurich. In 1919, he discovered the occurrence of Middle Triassic (Anisian–Ladinian) ichthyosaurs ..read more
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The first Cyclida from the Triassic of Italy
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by Vittorio Pieroni
1M ago
A well-preserved carapace of the crustacean Halicyne is here described. The finding comes from the Sostegno Basin (Piedmont, Italy). This is the first occurrence of a well-preserved arthropod from the Middle Tria ..read more
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A report on palaeontological excavations and sampling in mudrocks: some guidelines
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by Walter Etter
2M ago
More than 60% of the world’s sedimentary rocks are mudrocks (Potter et al., 1980; Schieber, 1998; Potter, 2003; the term mudrock is favored here over mudstone because the latter term was used to characterize a li ..read more
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Pachycormid fish fed on octobrachian cephalopods: new evidence from the ‘Schistes bitumineux’ (early Toarcian) of southern Luxembourg
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by Robert Weis, Dominique Delsate, Christian Klug, Thodoris Argyriou and Dirk Fuchs
2M ago
A re-examination of the early Toarcian fish fossils preserved in public paleontological collections in Luxembourg revealed 70 specimens of large Toarcian pachycormid fish with an excellent three-dimensional pr ..read more
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Complex dental wear analysis reveals dietary shift in Triassic placodonts (Sauropsida, Sauropterygia)
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by Kinga Gere, András Lajos Nagy, Torsten M. Scheyer, Ingmar Werneburg and Attila Ősi
2M ago
Placodonts were durophagous reptiles of the Triassic seas with robust skulls, jaws, and enlarged, flat, pebble-like teeth. During their evolution, they underwent gradual craniodental changes from the Early Ani ..read more
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Callovian corals from the Swiss Jura
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by Hannes Löser, Andreas Wetzel and Bernhard Hostettler
3M ago
Twelve solitary and platy, colonial coral taxa assigned to the families Microsolenidae, Misistellidae, Montlivaltiidae, Rayasmiliidae, and Thamnasteriidae are described and illustrated from the Callovian (Ifen ..read more
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