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Osteological Redescription of the Skull of Microcleidus homalospondylus (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Lower Jurassic of England 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract The plesiosaur specimen NHMUK 36184 from the Lower Jurassic of Whitby, Yorkshire and kept in the Natural History Museum of London, comprises an almost entire skeleton with nearly complete s...
Morphological Analysis of Phylogenetic Relationships Among Extant Rhynchonellide Brachiopods 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract Rhynchonellida is the stratigraphically oldest and phylogenetically most basal of the extant rhynchonelliform brachiopod orders, yet phylogenetic relationships among rhynchonellides are poo...
Amphibians and Nonmarine Turtles from the Miocene Calvert Formation of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (USA) 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract Two amphibian taxa are reported for the first time from the lower to middle Miocene shallow-marine Calvert Formation. These are Batrachosauroides aff. B. dissimulans (a large proteoid salam...
The Earliest Bathymodiolin Mussels: An Evaluation of Eocene and Oligocene Taxa from Deep-Sea Methane Seep Deposits in Western Washington State, USA 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract Bathymodiolin mussels are a group of bivalves associated with deep-sea hydrothermal vents and other reducing deep-sea habitats, and they have a particularly rich early Cenozoic fossil recor...
A New Shrimp (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, Southwest China 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract A new penaeoid shrimp collected from the Middle Triassic Member II of the Guanling Formation in the vicinity of the city of Luxi, Yunnan, southwest China, is a new species, Aeger luxii n. s...
A Divergence Dating Analysis of Turtles Using Fossil Calibrations: An Example of Best Practices 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract Turtles have served as a model system for molecular divergence dating studies using fossil calibrations. However, because some parts of the fossil record of turtles are very well known, div...
Cladistic Analysis of the Paleozoic Bryozoan Families Monticuliporidae and Mesotrypidae 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract A set of 127 binary and multistate characters, weighted by the number of derived character states, degree of covariation, and level of homoplasy, was used in a cladistic analysis of type sp...
First Rove Beetles from the Jurassic Talbragar Fish Bed of Australia (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract The first two rove beetle fossils discovered from the Late Jurassic Talbragar Fish Bed in New South Wales, Australia are described and illustrated. Juroglypholoma talbragarense n. sp. is th...
Taphonomic Implications of Barnacle Encrusted Sea Lion Bones from the Middle Pleistocene Port Orford Formation, Coastal Oregon 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract Fossil evidence of barnacle encrustation of vertebrate bones is reported from the middle Pleistocene Port Orford Formation of southern coastal Oregon. This material includes two associated ...
Quasiaulacera, A New Hirnantian (Late ordovician) Aulaceratid Stromatoporoid Genus from Anticosti Island, Canada 19 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
A bstract A large and abundant columnar stromatoporoid, Quasiaulacera n. gen., from the Ellis Bay Formation, up to 3 m long and 40 cm in diameter, marks the Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) of Anticost...
