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December 2019

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

November 8, 2019

Gnathovorax cabreirai: a new early dinosaur and the origin and initial radiation of predatory dinosaurs

Cristian Pacheco, Rodrigo T. Müller, Max Langer, Flávio A. Pretto, Leonardo Kerber, Sérgio Dias da Silva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7963 PubMed 31720108

November 5, 2019

A new alligatoroid from the Eocene of Vietnam highlights an extinct Asian clade independent from extant Alligator sinensis

Tobias Massonne, Davit Vasilyan, Márton Rabi, Madelaine Böhme

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7562 PubMed 31720094

November 18, 2019

First palaeoneurological study of a sauropod dinosaur from France and its phylogenetic significance

Fabien Knoll, Stephan Lautenschlager, Xavier Valentin, Verónica Díez Díaz, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Géraldine Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7991 PubMed 31763068

November 19, 2019

Hematological convergence between Mesozoic marine reptiles (Sauropterygia) and extant aquatic amniotes elucidates diving adaptations in plesiosaurs

Corinna V. Fleischle, P. Martin Sander, Tanja Wintrich, Kai R. Caspar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8022 PubMed 31763069

November 6, 2019

Neck mobility in the Jurassic plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus: finite element analysis as a new approach to understanding the cervical skeleton in fossil vertebrates

Tanja Wintrich, René Jonas, Hans-Joachim Wilke, Lars Schmitz, P. Martin Sander

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7658 PubMed 31720095

November 7, 2019

Scythes, sickles and other blades: defining the diversity of pectoral fin morphotypes in Pachycormiformes

Jeff J. Liston, Anthony E. Maltese, Paul H. Lambers, Dominique Delsate, William E.H. Harcourt-Smith, Anneke H. van Heteren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7675 PubMed 31720097

November 5, 2019

Reconstructing the archosaur radiation using a Middle Triassic archosauriform tooth assemblage from Tanzania

Devin K. Hoffman, Hunter R. Edwards, Paul M. Barrett, Sterling J. Nesbitt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7970 PubMed 31720109

November 13, 2019

Brittle stars looking like starfish: the first fossil record of the Astrophiuridae and a remarkable case of convergent evolution

Ben Thuy, Andy Gale, Lea Numberger-Thuy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8008 PubMed 31741791

November 11, 2019

Ghosts from the past: a review of fossil Hepialoidea (Lepidoptera)

Thomas J. Simonsen, David L. Wagner, Maria Heikkilä

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7982 PubMed 31737446

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