Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

May 3, 2021

Coverage and quality of DNA barcode references for Central and Northern European Odonata

Matthias Geiger, Stephan Koblmüller, Giacomo Assandri, Andreas Chovanec, Torbjørn Ekrem, Iris Fischer, Andrea Galimberti, Michał Grabowski, Elisabeth Haring, Axel Hausmann, Lars Hendrich, Stefan Koch, Tomasz Mamos, Udo Rothe, Björn Rulik, Tomasz Rewicz, Marcia Sittenthaler, Elisabeth Stur, Grzegorz Tończyk, Lukas Zangl, Jerome Moriniere

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11192 PubMed 33986985

May 6, 2021

Cranial anatomy of Besanosaurus leptorhynchus Dal Sasso & Pinna, 1996 (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio, Italy/Switzerland: taxonomic and palaeobiological implications

Gabriele Bindellini, Andrzej S. Wolniewicz, Feiko Miedema, Torsten M. Scheyer, Cristiano Dal Sasso

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11179 PubMed 33996277

May 26, 2021

Integrative species delimitation based on COI, ITS, and morphological evidence illustrates a unique evolutionary history of the genus Paracercion (Odonata: Coenagrionidae)

Haiguang Zhang, Xin Ning, Xin Yu, Wen-Jun Bu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11459 PubMed 34123590

May 11, 2021

Durnonovariaodus maiseyi gen. et sp. nov., a new hybodontiform shark-like chondrichthyan from the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation of England

Sebastian Stumpf, Steve Etches, Charlie J. Underwood, Jürgen Kriwet

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11362 PubMed 34026354

May 31, 2021

New interpretation of the cranial osteology of the Early Cretaceous turtle Arundelemys dardeni (Paracryptodira) based on a CT-based re-evaluation of the holotype

Serjoscha W. Evers, Yann Rollot, Walter G. Joyce

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11495 PubMed 34131522

May 4, 2021

Taphonomy and taxonomy of a juvenile lambeosaurine (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) bonebed from the late Campanian Wapiti Formation of northwestern Alberta, Canada

Brayden Holland, Phil R. Bell, Federico Fanti, Samantha M. Hamilton, Derek W. Larson, Robin Sissons, Corwin Sullivan, Matthew J. Vavrek, Yanyin Wang, Nicolás E. Campione

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11290 PubMed 33987001

May 3, 2021

Sphenofontis velserae gen. et sp. nov., a new rhynchocephalian from the Late Jurassic of Brunn (Solnhofen Archipelago, southern Germany)

Andrea Villa, Roel Montie, Martin Röper, Monika Rothgaenger, Oliver W.M. Rauhut

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11363 PubMed 33987027

May 18, 2021

Description of three new species of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) using species delimitation in an integrative taxonomy approach for a cryptic species complex

Simeão S. Moraes, Ygor Montebello, Mariana A. Stanton, Lydia Fumiko Yamaguchi, Massuo J. Kato, André V.L. Freitas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11304 PubMed 34046252

May 7, 2021

Nostolepis scale remains (stem Chondrichthyes) from the Lower Devonian of Qujing, Yunnan, China

Qiang Li, Xindong Cui, Plamen Stanislavov Andreev, Wenjin Zhao, Jianhua Wang, Lijian Peng, Min Zhu