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| Open AccessA Pleistocene Fight Club revealed by the palaeobiological study of the Dama-like deer record from Pantalla (Italy)
- Marco Cherin
- , Marzia Breda
- & Dawid A. Iurino
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| Open AccessA new Cretaceous thyreophoran from Patagonia supports a South American lineage of armoured dinosaurs
- Facundo J. Riguetti
- , Sebastián Apesteguía
- & Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola
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| Open AccessStratigraphic reassessment of Grotta Romanelli sheds light on Middle-Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironments and human settling in the Mediterranean
- Pierluigi Pieruccini
- , Luca Forti
- & Ilaria Mazzini
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| Open AccessThe earliest segmental sternum in a Permian synapsid and its implications for the evolution of mammalian locomotion and ventilation
- Eva-Maria Bendel
- , Christian F. Kammerer
- & Jörg Fröbisch
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| Open AccessA new marsh beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Scirtidae)
- Yan-Da Li
- , Rafał Ruta
- & Chen-Yang Cai
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| Open Access100 Million-year-old straight-jawed lacewing larvae with enormously inflated trunks represent the oldest cases of extreme physogastry in insects
- Joachim T. Haug
- & Carolin Haug
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| Open AccessCase study of the convergent evolution in the color patterns in the freshwater bivalves
- Kaito Asato
- , Kentaro Nakayama
- & Takuya Imai
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| Open AccessVariation in human 3D trunk shape and its functional implications in hominin evolution
- Markus Bastir
- , José María González Ruíz
- & Enrique Navarro
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| Open AccessLateral palatal foramina do not indicate baleen in fossil whales
- Carlos Mauricio Peredo
- , Nicholas D. Pyenson
- & Mark D. Uhen
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| Open AccessResurrecting extinct cephalopods with biomimetic robots to explore hydrodynamic stability, maneuverability, and physical constraints on life habits
- David J. Peterman
- & Kathleen A. Ritterbush
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| Open AccessPattern and rate in the Plio-Pleistocene evolution of modern human brain size
- Philip D. Gingerich
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| Open AccessEarliest giant panda false thumb suggests conflicting demands for locomotion and feeding
- Xiaoming Wang
- , Denise F. Su
- & Tao Deng
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| Open AccessBirds adapted to cold conditions show greater changes in range size related to past climatic oscillations than temperate birds
- Lisa Carrera
- , Marco Pavia
- & Sara Varela
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| Open AccessExceptional soft-tissue preservation of Jurassic Vampyronassa rhodanica provides new insights on the evolution and palaeoecology of vampyroteuthids
- Alison J. Rowe
- , Isabelle Kruta
- & Isabelle Rouget
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| Open AccessEvidence for a mixed-age group in a pterosaur footprint assemblage from the early Upper Cretaceous of Korea
- Jongyun Jung
- , Min Huh
- & Lida Xing
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| Open AccessA new wing skeleton of the Jehol tapejarid Sinopterus and its implications for ontogeny and paleoecology of the Tapejaridae
- Chang-Fu Zhou
- , Dongxiang Yu
- & Brian Andres
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| Open AccessCretaceous Antodicranomyia (Diptera: Limoniidae) and their paleohabitat
- Iwona Kania-Kłosok
- , Vincent Perrichot
- & Wiesław Krzemiński
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| Open AccessNanomechanical variability in the early evolution of vertebrate dentition
- Mohammad Shohel
- , Kamal K. Ray
- & Tori Z. Forbes
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| Open AccessAdipocere formation in biofilms as a first step in soft tissue preservation
- Bastian Mähler
- , Kathrin Janssen
- & Jes Rust
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| Open AccessAurochs roamed along the SW coast of Andalusia (Spain) during Late Pleistocene
- Carlos Neto de Carvalho
- , Fernando Muñiz
- & Clive Finlayson
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| Open AccessFirst ovum-in-ovo pathological titanosaurid egg throws light on the reproductive biology of sauropod dinosaurs
- Harsha Dhiman
- , Vishal Verma
- & Guntupalli V. R. Prasad
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| Open AccessBiofilms as agents of Ediacara-style fossilization
- Silvina Slagter
- , Weiduo Hao
- & Lidya G. Tarhan
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| Open AccessSubmarine metalliferous carbonate mounds in the Cambrian of the Baltoscandian Basin induced by vent networks and water column stratification
- J. Javier Álvaro
- , Lars E. Holmer
- & Laura González-Acebrón
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| Open AccessTaphonomic history and trophic interactions of an ammonoid fauna from the Upper Triassic Polzberg palaeobiota
- Alexander Lukeneder
- & Petra Lukeneder
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| Open AccessA long-tailed marine reptile from China provides new insights into the Middle Triassic pachypleurosaur radiation
- Guang-Hui Xu
- , Yi Ren
- & Dong-Hao Feng
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| Open AccessQuaternary taphonomy: understanding the past through traces
Taphonomical analysis allows us to understand the processes that underlie site formation, as well as provide insights into the modification and composition of studied fossil materials. Taphonomy has become crucial to many scientific fields, providing conceptual advances through a renewal of models, protocols, and paradigms. In these studies, trans-disciplinary approaches (geology, palaeontology, biology, ecology, archaeology) have been developed using a wide array of methodologies. In addition, experimental work on modern assemblages, focusing on specific geological and biological processes (‘actualism’), are used to make referential data and proxies. This Collection contributes to the field’s methodological development, while gathering research articles investigating Quaternary period bone assemblages, with special interest in the Pleistocene.
- Ruth Blasco
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| Open AccessNew therizinosaurid dinosaur from the marine Osoushinai Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Japan) provides insight for function and evolution of therizinosaur claws
- Yoshitsugu Kobayashi
- , Ryuji Takasaki
- & Yoshinori Hikida
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| Open AccessSabertooth carcass consumption behavior and the dynamics of Pleistocene large carnivoran guilds
- Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
- , Charles P. Egeland
- & Richard C. Hulbert Jr.
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| Open AccessSustainable human population density in Western Europe between 560.000 and 360.000 years ago
- Jesús Rodríguez
- , Christian Willmes
- & Ana Mateos
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| Open AccessA large Megaraptoridae (Theropoda: Coelurosauria) from Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Patagonia, Argentina
- Alexis M. Aranciaga Rolando
- , Matias J. Motta
- & Fernando E. Novas
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| Open AccessMammal extinction facilitated biome shift and human population change during the last glacial termination in East-Central Europe
- Enikő Katalin Magyari
- , Mihály Gasparik
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| Open AccessA new cynodont from the Upper Triassic Los Colorados Formation (Argentina, South America) reveals a novel paleobiogeographic context for mammalian ancestors
- L. C. Gaetano
- , F. Abdala
- & E. Steimbach
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| Open AccessQuadrupedal water launch capability demonstrated in small Late Jurassic pterosaurs
- Michael Pittman
- , Thomas G. Kaye
- & Michael B. Habib
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| Open AccessPreservation of early Tonian macroalgal fossils from the Dolores Creek Formation, Yukon
- Katie M. Maloney
- , James D. Schiffbauer
- & Marc Laflamme
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| Open AccessDominican amber net-winged beetles suggest stable paleoenvironment as a driver for conserved morphology in a paedomorphic lineage
- Vinicius S. Ferreira
- , Alexey Solodovnikov
- & Robin Kundrata
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| Open AccessEarly Triassic ichthyopterygian fossils from the Russian Far East
- Yasuhisa Nakajima
- , Yasunari Shigeta
- & P. Martin Sander
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| Open AccessOldest leaf mine trace fossil from East Asia provides insight into ancient nutritional flow in a plant–herbivore interaction
- Yume Imada
- , Nozomu Oyama
- & Hirokazu Yukawa
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| Open AccessCombining elemental and immunochemical analyses to characterize diagenetic alteration patterns in ancient skeletal remains
- L. Gatti
- , Federico Lugli
- & R. Mazzeo
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| Open AccessFirst titanosaur dinosaur nesting site from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil
- Lucas E. Fiorelli
- , Agustín G. Martinelli
- & Thiago da Silva Marinho
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| Open AccessFirst evidence of ranunculids in Early Cretaceous tropics
- William Vieira Gobo
- , Lutz Kunzmann
- & Clément Coiffard
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| Open AccessThe downsizing of gigantic scales and large cells in the genus Mallomonas (Synurales, Chrysophyceae)
- Peter A. Siver
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| Open AccessThe oldest fossil record of Pseudopsinae from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of northeastern China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pseudopsinae)
- Yuchu Liu
- , Erik Tihelka
- & Li Tian
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| Open AccessContrasting Early Ordovician assembly patterns highlight the complex initial stages of the Ordovician Radiation
- Farid Saleh
- , Pauline Guenser
- & Bertrand Lefebvre
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| Open AccessSpinal fracture reveals an accident episode in Eremotherium laurillardi shedding light on the formation of a fossil assemblage
- Fernando H. de S. Barbosa
- , Hermínio I. de Araújo-Júnior
- & Edison Vicente Oliveira
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| Open AccessHippotherium Datum implies Miocene palaeoecological pattern
- Boyang Sun
- , Yan Liu
- & Tao Deng
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| Open AccessThree-dimensional polygonal muscle modelling and line of action estimation in living and extinct taxa
- Oliver E. Demuth
- , Ashleigh L. A. Wiseman
- & John R. Hutchinson
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| Open AccessA Middle Pleistocene wolf from central Italy provides insights on the first occurrence of Canis lupus in Europe
- Dawid A. Iurino
- , Beniamino Mecozzi
- & Raffaele Sardella
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| Open AccessCranial muscle reconstructions quantify adaptation for high bite forces in Oviraptorosauria
- Luke E. Meade
- & Waisum Ma