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The Tikhvinskoye continental Early Triassic locality: geological setting, fauna and flora
26/05/1996
Igor V. Novikov & Andrey G. Sennikov Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 123 Profsoyuznaya Street, Moscow, 117647, Russia The continental Lower Triassic of European Russia is known for a rich and diversified vertebrate fauna: dipnoans, temnospondyl amphibians, procolophonids, prolacertiforms, thecodonts, theriodonts and other groups. Five faunal sequences… -
New Jurassic Dipnoans from Thailand
26/05/1996
MARTIN Michel (1), BUFFETAUT Eric (2),HAIYAN TONG (2) and SUTEETHORN VARADUDH (3) 1 – MUSEE d’HISTOIRE NATURELLE 115, Boulevard Eurvin 62200 – BOULOGNE SUR MER – FRANCE 2 – CENTRE NATIONAL de la RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (URA 1761) UNIVERSITE PARIS 6, Case 106, 4, Place Jussieu 75252 – PARIS CEDEX 05… -
Discovery of a furcula in tyrannosaurid theropods and its functional and phylogenetic implications
26/05/1996
PETER J. MAKOVICKY and PHILIP J. CURRIE PJM: Afdeling for Historisk Geologi og Palæontologi,Geologisk Institut, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 København K, DENMARK PJC: Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, P.O.Box 7500, Drumheller, Alberta, T0J 0Y0, CANADA Since the end of the last century, it was commonly believed that dinosaurs had lost… -
Jean Le Loeuff* and Albert Martinez-Rius** *Musée des Dinosaures, I 1260 Espéraza, France **Geoleg Consultor. c/ Enamorats,132, 2-1, 08026 Barcelona, Spain Abstract The Fumanya tracksite, 20 kms north of Berga in Catalonia (eastern Pyrenees), is the first known locality which shows titanosaurid footprints. It is the largest known sauropod trackway…
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New records of perching birds from the latest Paleocene/earliest Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark
26/05/1996
Anette Vedding Kristoffersen, Geological Museum, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen Introduction Three partly articulated postcranial skeletons (Da.k.7, Da.k.22 and FU100) from the early Tertiary Fur Formation of northern Jutland, Denmark, have been studied. They are preserved as part and counterpart in “cementstone”, which has split along the fossil plane. Splitting… -
Jørn H. Hurum, Paleontologisk Museum, Sarsgt. 1, N-0562 Oslo, Norway Introduction Multituberculates, the rodents of the Mesozoic, thrived as the most successful group of mammals in the shadow of the dinosaurs. The small beasts have been found in deposits ranging from the late Triassic, early Jurassic or even late Jurassic,…
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Hua Stéphane, Laboratoire de Paléontologie des vertébrés, U.R.A. CNRS 1761, Université Paris 6, Tour 15, 3ème étage, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France. Buffrénil Vivian de , Equipe “Formations squelettiques” (U.R.A. CNRS 1137), Laboratoire d’Anatomie Comparée Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, Paris, France. Abstract A morphofunctional…
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Ella Hoch, Geologisk Museum of Copenhagen University, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark Cenozoic birds are structurally modern, but Recent bird taxa can not with certainty be traced back into the Paleocene. As an example, Sphenisciformes, the penguins, a well defined order from the Eocene through to the Quaternary, may…
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Sylvain Duffaud, Laboratoire de Paléontologie des vertébrés, U.R.A. 1761, case 106, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 05 France. The fossiliferous site of Champ-Garimond was discovered more than sixty years ago. This name was given to honour Saturnin Garimond who, interested in fossils, was the…