Réflexions sur la restauration du patrimoine paléontologique à travers  la réhabilitation scientifique d'un fossile d'ichthyosaure by Romanella Bosseau

“…Since the fossil is at the same time a paleontological tool, a cultural asset and a historical collection “object”, we chose to carry out a scientific rehabilitation. …”
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Strashila Incredibilis, a New Enigmatic Mecopteroid Insect With Possible Siphonapteran Affinities From the Upper Jurassic of Siberia by A. P. Rasnitsyn

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The Enigmatic Upper Ordovician of the Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal) by Sofia Pereira, Jorge Colmenar, Cristiana Esteves, Ícaro Dias da Silva, Miguel Pires, Carlos Neto de Carvalho

“…New stratigraphic and paleontologic data are presented for the three Upper Ordovician-bearing structures within Naturtejo: Fajão-Muradal, Vila Velha de Ródão and Penha Garcia synclines. …”
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The Late Permian Kupferschiefer Fossils and the Geological Educational Trail in the UNESCO Global Geopark TERRA.vita (NW Germany) by Tobias Fischer, Lothar Schöllmann, Johannes Haunert

“…Here we review not only the Kupferschiefer fossil record of the Geopark, but also the paleontological excavations and environmental education programs that have been undertaken by the LWL Museum of Natural History in Münster, the local associations Museumsverein Hüggel e.V. and Kultur- und Verkehrsverein Hasbergen e.V. in Hasbergen, and the UNESCO Global Geopark TERRA.vita over the past 40 years. …”
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Geological heritage of the Northwestern Caucasus and its importance for promoting a better understanding of the Earth's structure and evolution by Z.A. Tolokonnikova

“…Their geomorphological, tectonic, stratigraphic, paleogeographic, and paleontological subtypes in the basins of the Ubin and Afips Rivers were described. …”
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Meeting Island Dwarfs and Giants of the Cretaceous – The Hațeg Country UNESCO Global Geopark, Romania by Zoltán Csiki-Sava, Alexandru Andrășanu

“…Based on available geological and paleontological evidence, these animals were living on a tropical island. …”
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Introduction au dossier Regards sur le passé : 30 ans de la Société Francophone de Primatologie by Vincent Leblan, Victor Narat

“…Here, three contributions consider the past with three time scales (paleontological, ecological, ethological) where primates are models to study human evolution. …”
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An Early Oligocene Fossil Lagerstätten from the Lacustrine Deposits of the Luberon UNESCO Global Geopark by Pauline Coster, Stephane Legal

“…The designation of the Luberon Regional Nature Park as a UNESCO Global Geopark has been an important step toward the protection and management of this world-class paleontological heritage along with scientific research and public education.…”
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Paleobiodiversity in the Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) of the Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal) by Sofia Pereira, Jorge Colmenar, Cristiana Esteves, Ícaro Dias da Silva, Miguel Pires, Carlos Neto de Carvalho

“…Four of them revealed to be fossiliferous in the different recognized lithostratigraphic units, middle-to-uppermost Darriwilian in age, with particular emphasis for Brejo Fundeiro (Oretanian regional chronostratigraphic stage) and Fonte da Horta (Dobrotivian regional stage) formations. Recent paleontological and biostratigraphic works have detected most of the previously recorded and new fossil sites, improving the Middle Ordovician biostratigraphy of this region and updating the knowledge of its fossil assemblages, which are fairly more diverse than previously considered. …”
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Dating volcanic materials through biochronostratigraphic methods applied to hosting strata (example from the Iberian Chain, eastern Spain) by Cortés, José Emilio

“…A set of petrological, geomorphological, sedimentological, and paleontological criteria are applied in order to discriminate primary from secondary (epiclastic) volcaniclastic deposits and thus make it possible to match the ages of primary volcaniclastic deposits with volcanic eruptions. …”
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A NEW SPECIES OF THE DEVONIAN ACTINOPTERYGIAN FISH <em>MOYTHOMASIA</em> FROM BELARUS by DMITRY PLAX, ALEKSANDR BAKAEV, SERGEY NAUGOLNYKH

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Critique of Settlement Pattern Analysis in Iranian Archaeological Texts by Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti, Saeid Babamir Satehi, Narjes Heydari

“…Less attention to the basic issues and methods of the settlement archeology, and no use of paleontological research to identify environmental variables in the context of the ancient landscape, are the most important methodological and conceptual problems of the texts. …”
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Immature skulls of the theropod dinosaur Coelophysis bauri from Ghost Ranch, New Mexico by Jeb E. Bugos, Skye N. McDavid

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THE SANDY HILL LANDSCAPE (CORRIENTES, ARGENTINA) FROM LATE PLEISTOCENE TO THE PRESENT by Félix Ignacio Contreras, Silvina Andrea Contreras, Cecilia Romina Méndez, Mariana Noemí Baruzzo, Elsie Araseli Ojeda, Ivana Evelin Kovalsky

“…The results were obtained due to the comparisons between the environmental reconstructions of the paleontological studies and the current situation of the region, besides the application of spatial analysis with geographic information systems and the knowledge of their shallow lakes distribution, since they constitute the main natural element of the landscape. …”
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The Evolutionary Characteristics of Lower Permian Keziliqiman Reefs in the Southwest Margin of Tarim Basin, Northwest China by Yijun Wang, Hongming Tang, Guang Yang, Zhenyu Wang, Yunfeng Zhang, Lei Chen

“…Later, with rapid decline of sea level in that area, the Sangzhu section turned into a hot and dry supratidal zone, where algae began to flourish, dolomitization intensified, reef building organisms died en masse, and eventually the reef died. Paleontological and geochemical characteristics of the Sangzhu reef indicate that the sea-level decline in southwest Tarim Basin may be related to the Early Permian glaciers. …”
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Rethinking the four-wing problem in plesiosaur swimming using bio-inspired decentralized control by Akira Fukuhara, Mitsutoshi Sato, Hisayuki Ogawa, Tamaki Sato, William Sellers, Akio Ishiguro

“…Recent engineering-inspired paleontological studies have reconstructed feasible locomotor patterns in extinct animals. …”
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Life History of the Camelthorn Gall Leafhopper, Scenergates viridis (Vilbaste) (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) by Roman Rakitov, Esther Appel

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Non-ammonoid cephalopods of the Early Permian Shakhtau reef (Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia) by A.Yu. Shchedukhin

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The Piesberg: A NW-German site of international importance for the Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) by Angelika Leipner, Tobias Fischer, Patrick Chellouche

“…While the Museum am Schölerberg in Osnabrück protects its paleontological heritage through ongoing excavations and houses the world’s largest fossil and mineral collection from Piesberg, the UNESCO Global Geopark TERRA.vita and the city of Osnabrück conserve its geological heritage and promote environmental education through the Piesberg Cultural and Environmental Park. …”
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Evolutionary history and phylogeographic relationships of shrews from Sorex araneus group. by Paweł Mackiewicz, Magdalena Moska, Heliodor Wierzbicki, Przemysław Gagat, Dorota Mackiewicz

“…We complemented the study with the estimation of diversification rates within the S. araneus group as well as comparing the results with paleontological records and climatic oscillations within the last 4 million years. …”
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