The discovery is detailed in the Tuesday
issue of the paleontology journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
Not exact matches
One
issue here is that few, if any, have the time or expertise to examine all
of the relevant data from all the relevant fields, that is, astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology,
paleontology, organismal and molecular biology, ecology, etc, etc..
A new paper published in latest
issue of the Journal
of Vertebrate
Paleontology shows that several
of these Jurassic sites are linked together by shared species and can be recognized as representing a single fossil fauna and flora, containing superbly preserved specimens
of a diverse group
of amphibian, mammal, and reptile species.
The study, «A new clade
of putative plankton - feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous
of Russia and the United States,» is published in the September
issue of the Journal
of Vertebrate
Paleontology.
The international Society
of Vertebrate
Paleontology has also set up a committee to examine the
issue.
The plesiosaur described in a forthcoming
issue of the Journal
of Vertebrate
Paleontology, though not the same species, also sported four fins and a long neck.
In research published online in a recent
issue of PeerJ, an open access journal, Professor Robert Reisz, Distinguished Professor
of Paleontology at UTM, explains that the presence
of such an extensive field
of teeth provides clues to how the intriguing feeding mechanism seen in modern amphibians was also likely used by their ancient ancestors.
The fossil assemblage, called the Daohugou Biota, is described in the latest
issue of the Journal
of Vertebrate
Paleontology.
The research program
of the museum seeks to address these questions by encouraging interdisciplinary initiatives that focus on important
issues relating to the biodiversity, biogeography, ecology, geology,
paleontology and Native American cultural history
of the Santa Barbara Region.