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The rostral neurovascular system of Tyrannosaurus rex 霸王龙的嘴侧神经血管系统

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Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/1178

Florian Bouabdellah, Emily J Lessner, J. Benoit

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Amateur collectors are critical to the study of fossil vertebrates: A case study from two Neogene localities in Northern California (Santa Margarita and Purisima formations) 业余收藏家对脊椎动物化石的研究至关重要:来自北加州两个新近纪地区(圣玛格丽塔和普里西马地层)的案例研究

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Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/1199

R. Boessenecker

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Phylogeny of iguanodontian dinosaurs and the evolution of quadrupedality 禽龙类恐龙的系统发育与四足动物的进化

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Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/702

Karen Poole

{"title":"Phylogeny of iguanodontian dinosaurs and the evolution of quadrupedality","authors":"Karen Poole","doi":"10.26879/702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26879/702","url":null,"abstract":"Iguanodontians are a large and biogeographically widespread group of dinosaurs, known from every modern continent, with a temporal range from the Late Jurassic through the Late Cretaceous. While the nested hadrosauroids have been studied extensively, the phylogeny of non-hadrosauroid iguanodontians remains less clear. This study presents a character matrix with 323 characters, and both parsimony and time-calibrated Bayesian analyses. While these result in different topologies, they both recover a Thescelosauridae outside of Iguanodontia. Within Iguanodontia, they both recover Muttaburrasaurus and Tenontosaurus as sister taxa to Rhabdodontidae, with a larger group of Gondwanan Rhabdodontoidea (nomen cladi novum) in the Bayesian analysis. A small Dryosauridae forms the sister group to Ankylopollexia, which has Uteodon and Camptosaurus as the most basally branching taxa. Within Styracosterna two distinct clades are recovered: Iguanodontidae, and a group of taxa with robust forelimbs. The holotype of Mantellisaurus is sister to “Dollodon”, supporting the hypothesis that these taxa are synonymous. The “hatchet-shaped” sternal thought to be a synapomorphy of Styracosterna occurs in two taxa recovered outside that group: Macrogryphosaurus and the unnamed taxon from the Kirkwood Formation of South Africa. Characters associated with quadrupedality are mapped on the phylogeny, indicating a transition from bipedality to quadrupedality occurred in a stepwise manner at the base of Ankylopollexia. Based on synapomorphies of the groups, the major innovations in Ankylopollexia were postcranial, while those of hadrosauroids were centered on dentition and the dentaries. There is a clear faunal succession from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous non-hadrosauroid ankylopollexians to the Late Cretaceous hadrosauroids. Karen Poole. Department of Basic Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Wilson Hall, 2405 Aggie Rd., Jonesboro Arkansas 72401, USA. kpoole@nyit.edu","PeriodicalId":56100,"journal":{"name":"Palaeontologia Electronica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69155833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Feeding strategies of circum‑Mediterranean hipparionins during the late Miocene: Exploring dietary preferences related to size through dental microwear analysis 中新世晚期环地中海海马的摄食策略:通过牙齿微磨损分析探索与尺寸相关的饮食偏好

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Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/990

Guillem Orlandi-Oliveras, M. Köhler, J. Clavel, R. Scott, Serdar Mayda, T. Kaya, G. Merceron

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引用次数: 1

Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Miocene of Fălciu (Eastern Romania) 中新世晚期腓利丘(罗马尼亚东部)的两栖动物和有鳞爬行动物

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Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/1156

V. Codrea, Marian Bordeianu, M. Venczel

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Chuandianella ovata: An early Cambrian stem euarthropod with feather-like appendages 卵川蝶:寒武纪早期的茎真节肢动物，有羽毛状附属物

IF 2 4区地球科学

Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/1172

Dayou Zhai, Mark Williams, D. Siveter, D. Siveter, T. Harvey, Robert S. Sansom, Huijuan Mai, Run-Bang Zhou, X. Hou

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Diptera of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation II 中始新世Kishenehn组双翅目2

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Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/1215

D. Greenwalt, D. Amorim, M. Hauser, P. Kerr, Scott M. Fitzgerald, S. Winterton, J. Cumming, N. Evenhuis, B. Sinclair

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Pygocephalomorphan crustaceans further emphasise the similarities between the Carboniferous Piesberg quarry in Germany and the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte in North America Pygocephalomorphan甲壳类动物进一步强调了德国石炭纪Piesberg采石场与北美Mazon Creek Lagerstätte之间的相似性

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Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/1051

P. Pazinato, C. Haug, A. Leipner, J. Haug

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Putative Ordovician green alga Krejciella reinterpreted as enteropneust hemichordate tube (Czech Republic) 假定的奥陶纪绿藻Krejciella被重新解释为enteropneust half - hordate tube(捷克)

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Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/1185

O. Fatka, J. Vodička

{"title":"Putative Ordovician green alga Krejciella reinterpreted as enteropneust hemichordate tube (Czech Republic)","authors":"O. Fatka, J. Vodička","doi":"10.26879/1185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26879/1185","url":null,"abstract":"Fossil and extant representatives of Enteropneusta play an important role in the interpretation of early evolution of animals, such as echinoderms, hemichordates and chordates. However, remains of fossil Enteropneusta are rare. Re-examination of available specimens of organic tubes of the Ordovician putative green alga Krejciella putzkeri Obrhel 1968 does not show any morphological difference from the Cambrian Margaretia dorus Walcott, 1931. The latter species has been recently interpreted as an organic tube produced and inhabited by the worm-like enteropneust hemichordate Oesia disjuncta Walcott, 1911. However, the absence of the subterranean lateral extension in Ordovician specimens excludes the synonymy of Krejciella and Margaretia . Geographic distribution of Cambrian organic tubes classified as Margaretia Walcott, 1931 indicates a possible latitudinal control, as all occurrences are apparently restricted to tropical and subtropical belts when plotted in Cambrian palaeogeographic maps. In comparison, the occurrence of the herein studied specimens of Krejciella is restricted to cold-water localities of West Gondwana. The micropalaeontological analy-sis of a rock sample bearing one specimen of Krejciella shows the presence of moder-ately preserved chitinozoans, including the zonal species Linochitina pissotensis . This taxon is, for the first time, documented from the Prague Basin and determines the Mid-dle/Late Ordovician boundary interval of the analysed sample. The herein studied specimens of Krejciella extend the record of organic tubes produced by enteropneust hemichordates both stratigraphically and palaeogeographically to the Middle/Late Ordovician cold-water area.","PeriodicalId":56100,"journal":{"name":"Palaeontologia Electronica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69148015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Designing scientifically-grounded paleoart for augmented reality at La Brea Tar Pits 在拉布雷亚沥青坑为增强现实设计科学基础的古艺术

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Palaeontologia Electronica Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.26879/1191

Matthew M. Davis, Benjamin D. Nye, G. Sinatra, W. Swartout, Molly Sjӧberg, Molly A. Porter, David Nelson, Alana A. U. Kennedy, Imogen Herrick, Danaan DeNeve Weeks, Emily Lindsey

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