Sentences with phrase «of vertebrate fossils»

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She is particularly concerned with assessing the role that fossils play in the interpretation of modern biodiversity and phylogenetics, as well as the role that phenotypic variation plays in the interpretation of vertebrate fossils and systematics.

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The progressive order of the fossil record, complete with forms bridging the major distinguishing traits of modern vertebrate classes, is a fact.

«Re-examination of old fossils using new techniques is just as important for revitalizing our understanding of vertebrate evolution.»

While the fossil record from this slice of the Paleozoic Era is too incomplete to say whether any of these animals were directly related or just distant cousins, the species represent the transitional nature of the vertebrate move from water to land.

Collecting and cataloging fossil bones, the heart of vertebrate paleontology, has been primarily a historical enterprise, one of unearthing ancient information and looking for patterns.

A 300 - million - year - old fossil mystery has been solved by a research team led by the University of Leicester, which has identified that the ancient «Tully Monster» was a vertebrate — due to the unique characteristics of its eyes.

The teeth came from a fossil - rich area called Cabin Fork in Wyoming and are part of a substantial collection at the University of Florida built in part by study co-author Jonathan Bloch, an associate curator of vertebrate paleontology there.

Wear patterns suggest its owner chewed on hard or bony animals like the frogs and turtles whose fossils were found in the same quarry in Queensland, Australia (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol 33, p1).

This fossil assemblage, newly named the Daohugou Biota after a village near one of the major localities in Inner Mongolia, China, dates from a time when many important vertebrate groups, including our own group, mammals, were undergoing evolutionary diversification.

The scientists studied the rib plates, so - calledcostals, of turtle shells and the ribs of various fossil and living vertebrate groups, including mammals, crocodiles and even dinosaurs.

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.

For over a decade, the University of Alaska Museum has been expanding its estimate of the richness and extent of Mesozoic vertebrate fossil beds and trackways in arctic Alaska.

This is the story of one of the winners, a small, shell - crushing predatory fish called Fouldenia, which first appears in the fossil record a mere 11 million years after an extinction that wiped out more than 90 percent of the planet's vertebrate species.

Recent fossil discoveries have resonated throughout Chinese culture, as evidenced by the giant reconstruction of Sinraptor posed outside the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

In a study published in July, he and a team identified four legs on the 272 - vertebrate fossil, with hind legs nearly twice the size of the front legs.

«In Japan, many important vertebrate fossils have been discovered by amateurs because most of the land is covered with vegetation, and there are few exposures of fossil - bearing Cretaceous rocks.

While that is close to true for coelacanths, other famous «living fossils,» which have the slowest molecular evolutionary rate among vertebrates, the Lingula genome has been evolving rapidly, despite the lack of changes in appearance.

Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

«These fossils allow us to flesh out the community and add to our understanding of the community's composition and how it differed from other places in the world,» says Donald Brinkman, vertebrate paleontologist and director of preservation and research at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada.

A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four - legged vertebrates that was subsequently lost in the course of evolution.

«We were able to show salamander - like regenerative capacities in both — fossil groups that develop their limbs like the majority of modern four - legged vertebrates as well in groups with the reversed pattern of limb development seen in modern salamanders,» said Dr. Jennifer Olori of State University of New York at Oswego, co-author on the study.

The newly described species (artist's representation shown), which lived between 220 million and 230 million years ago, was one of the largest in a group of amphibians known as metoposaurs and is the first known in this region from well - preserved fossils, the researchers report online today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

The belief in five digits as an ancestral character has even extended to fossil reconstructions of Ichthyostega, one of the earliest terrestrial vertebrates from the Devonian (about 390 to 340 million years ago).

In 2014, Conway Morris was part of the team that discovered Metaspriggina: one of the oldest - known vertebrate fossils, perhaps over 500 million years old, which displayed hints of a gill structure, as well as the muscle arrangement of an active swimmer.

A tiny fossil from China could be the earliest of all deuterostomes, creatures that eventually led to evolution of all vertebrates, including humans

From fish to monkeys, every kind of vertebrate needs to breathe, eat and move in its environment, so a lot can be inferred about these basically mechanical properties from the bony structures preserved in the fossil record.

Finds such as the newly discovered Birgeria species and the fossils of other vertebrates now show that so - called apex predators (animals at the very top of the food chain) already lived early after the mass extinction.

The studies» analysis of sedimentary layers deposited with early terrestrial vertebrate fossils established that portions of our distant ancestors» environment dried out seasonally, but year - round much of it was, yep, a swamp.

«These are the vital distinctions between mammals and nonmammalian vertebrates, but it has been a challenge for scientists to trace the origins of these features in the fossil record,» says Zhe - Xi Luo, a vertebrate paleontologist at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

In Cerro Colorado, located in the Ica Desert of Peru, sedimentary sequences dating back nine million years have been found to host the fossil skeletons of hundreds of marine vertebrates.

The data obtained allow researchers to compare the Miocene whale feeding habits to those of the extant sea whale, and strengthen the preservation potential of the Ica desert for the marine vertebrate fossil record.

The northeastern part of the country holds a fossil record spanning more than 100 million years of vertebrate evolution.

Marine reptiles were among the first vertebrate fossils known to science and were key to the development of the theory of evolution.

The oily shale that entombs those fossils was laid down as lake sediments about 47 million years ago, says Walter Joyce, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Thanks to an exquisitely well - preserved fossil skin, a new study has reproduced a fossil vertebrate's full range of colors.

A quarry in Strud, Belgium, that was excavated between 2004 and 2015 yielded fossils of multiple species of placoderms, which are extinct, armored fish that represent some of the earliest jawed vertebrates on Earth.

«There are many past examples of overly optimistic reporting of supposed soft tissues — skin, liver, eyes, heart — in dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates that remain unconvincing,» Benton says.

«As more freshwater flows into the Arctic Ocean due to global warming, I think we are going to see it become more brackish,» said Eberle, also curator of fossil vertebrates at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

All major groups of animals — an entire kingdom of multicellular life that today includes insects, worms, shellfish, starfish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and vertebrates like us — bloomed suddenly in the fossil record during an evolutionary extravaganza known as the Cambrian explosion, which occurred 530 million years ago.

Sharks belong to a more basal group of vertebrates and their scales have been observed in the fossil record over the course of 450 million years of evolution, so the Sheffield researchers believe this indicates that all vertebrates, whether they live on land or in the sea, share the same developmental programme for skin, teeth and hair that has remained relatively unchanged throughout vertebrate evolution.

Besides a few rodent fossils and the remains of an owl that probably fell into the Dinaledi chamber by mistake, there are no other vertebrate species present.

«It was assumed that tetrapods evolved in river deltas and lakes, partly because all previous fossil evidence has been found in these environments,» says Jenny Clack, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK.

New fossils described yesterday at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Mexico City, however, are providing insight into the timing of this extraordinary transformation.

Dinosaurs make up one - third of all vertebrate genera found in the fossil beds, and all three major dinosaur groups had already appeared — not bad for a time when the beasts were thought to be rare.

In 1993, Dr. Novacek was one of the discoverers of the Gobi's Ukhaa Tolgod, the richest Cretaceous fossil vertebrate site in the world.

Philippe Janvier — Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France Breaking through the mineral ceiling: Early fossil vertebrate anatomy in the light of new technologies

We recovered new fossils pertaining to all of these vertebrate groups — including significant new marine reptile and bird material — and collected an abundance of additional geological data.

Although specimens of fishes, marine reptiles, non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and mammals of this age have all been recovered from this now - frozen continent, most fossils, especially those of land - living species, are fragmentary and poorly informative, and a number of major vertebrate groups that likely once lived in Antarctica (e.g., amphibians, crocodilians) have yet to be discovered at all.