Author: Mihaela-Cristina Krause

"Birds are among the best-studied animal groups, but their prehistoric diversity is poorly known due to low fossilization potential. Hence, while many human-driven bird extinctions (i.e., extinctions caused directly by human activities such as hunting, as well as indirectly through human-associated...

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"Rinaldo Zardini (1902–1988) was an Italian palaeontologist and botanist born in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Having a background as a professional photographer, he was able to illustrate his collection of mostly tiny fossils in high definition. For his significant contributions to the field of palaeontology...

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A book on nature, mountain biking and the consequences (in German). "Das Thema Outdoorsport und Natur bewegt viele Menschen und es wird oftmals hitzig und kontrovers diskutiert. Bislang gibt es immer wieder Konflikte, denn sowohl auf Seiten des Naturschutzes als auch auf Seiten der Outdoorsport...

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The decision has been made - we welcome Murky and FDTP to the PaleoSynthesis team. Stay tuned for future updates and the next call in April! Check out the new workshops here: https://paleosynthesis.cms.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/.../science-workshops/

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"Articulated natural assemblages contain direct evidence of the element numbers, morphologies, positions and structures for reconstructing the feeding apparatuses of conodont animals, but these kind of materials are very rare in fossil records. Here we report ten new conodont natural assemblages fr...

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"The congruence between rock quantity and biodiversity through the Phanerozoic has long been acknowledged. Rock record bias and common cause are the most discussed hypotheses: the former emphasizes that the changes in diversity through time fully reflect rock availability; the latter posits that th...

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"The platycerate gastropods Orthonychia yutaroi Ebbestad, sp nov. (Ordovician, Boda Limestone, Sweden), O. enorme (Silurian, Sweden, Gotland), O. parva (Pennsylvanian, Finis Shale Member, USA), and Orthonychia sp. (Mississippian, Imo Formation, USA) are studied including their protoconch morphology...

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"Recently, on the basis of a single specimen (ROMIP 64897) from the Royal Ontario Museum (Canada), Whalen and Landman described the new coleoid taxon with a fairly completely preserved frontal part as Syllipsimopodi bideni. The specimen, recovered from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Heath Formation in F...

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