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November 2018

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The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

Reconstruction of a living Mirarce eatoni

November 13, 2018

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

A 75 million year old bird skeleton from a threatened national monument in Utah represents the most complete skeleton ever found in North America for a long extinct group of birds called enantiornithines. This large, fossilized bird provides important new insight into the evolution of flight. It has several advanced adaptations for flying, which show that the Enantiornithes evolved these features separately from living birds.

November 26, 2018

Braincase and endocranial anatomy of two thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs and their relevance in understanding their adaptations to the marine environment

Yanina Herrera, Juan Martín Leardi, Marta S. Fernández

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5686 PubMed 30515353

November 13, 2018

The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae

Jessie Atterholt, J. Howard Hutchison, Jingmai K. O’Connor

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5910 PubMed 30479894

November 27, 2018

Postmortem transport in fossil and modern shelled cephalopods

Margaret M. Yacobucci

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5909 PubMed 30515355

November 12, 2018

Late Cretaceous sauropod tooth morphotypes may provide supporting evidence for faunal connections between North Africa and Southern Europe

Femke M. Holwerda, Verónica Díez Díaz, Alejandro Blanco, Roel Montie, Jelle W.F. Reumer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5925 PubMed 30473934

November 16, 2018

A new microvertebrate assemblage from the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation: insights into the paleobiodiversity and paleobiogeography of early Late Cretaceous ecosystems in western North America

Haviv M. Avrahami, Terry A. Gates, Andrew B. Heckert, Peter J. Makovicky, Lindsay E. Zanno

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5883 PubMed 30479889

November 22, 2018

A needle in a haystack: Mesozoic origin of parasitism in Strepsiptera revealed by first definite Cretaceous primary larva (Insecta)

Hans Pohl, Jan Batelka, Jakub Prokop, Patrick Müller, Margarita I. Yavorskaya, Rolf G. Beutel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5943 PubMed 30498634

November 2, 2018

Elaborate plumage patterning in a Cretaceous bird

Quanguo Li, Julia A. Clarke, Ke-Qin Gao, Jennifer A. Peteya, Matthew D. Shawkey

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5831 PubMed 30405969

November 1, 2018

Prionochelys matutina Zangerl, 1953 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the United States and the evolution of epithecal ossifications in marine turtles

Andrew D. Gentry

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5876 PubMed 30402356

November 15, 2018

A taxonomic reassessment of Piramys auffenbergi, a neglected turtle from the late Miocene of Piram Island, Gujarat, India

Gabriel S. Ferreira, Saswati Bandyopadhyay, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5938 PubMed 30479901

November 30, 2018

First occurrence of the enigmatic peccaries Mylohyus elmorei and Prosthennops serus from the Appalachians: latest Hemphillian to Early Blancan of Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee

Evan M. Doughty, Steven C. Wallace, Blaine W. Schubert, Lauren M. Lyon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5926 PubMed 30533292

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