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During the Late Miocene, Bramatherium was the main representative of the giraffid subfamily Sivatheriinae in the Indian Subcontinent, with sparse and uncertain records from adjacent regions. In the present paper, we describe and compare two ossicones...

Coelacanths in the Family Mawsoniidae include ten genera with a primarily Gondwanan distribution. Two of the genera—Mawsonia and Axelrodichthys—show a related biogeographic pattern of occurrences in the Cretaceous of Brazil and Africa. Th...

At 47° S in Argentine Patagonia, the interaction between the Southern Westerly Winds (SWW) and the Andean barrier generates a steep climatic gradient, providing an ideal setting to evaluate Holocene vegetation responses. This study focuses on the...

Onychophora (velvet worms) are rare, soil-dwelling invertebrates with a fragile body structure that limits their fossil record. Their current distribution across the Neotropics has long been shaped by vicariance and dispersal events. Here, we evaluat...

Geological data of the region indicate that the Canary Islands have not been connected to the mainland before. However, fossil evidence suggests some kind of faunal exchange with Africa during the late Neogene. After extensive field work during past...

Cranial kinesis in Neornithes is enabled by a complex system of bones, muscles, ligaments, and joints, allowing variable degrees of movement between the upper jaw and the neurocranium. Particularly, cranial prokinesis—mobility of the upper jaw...

Fossil resins from the area of Gulf of Gdańsk, Lublin area, Denmark, Bitterfeld, Lusatia and Ukraine, often grouped under the collective term ‘Baltic amber’, are complex organic mineraloids that have undergone various post-deposition...

This study conducted a spatiotemporal review of the coelacanth fossil record and explored its distribution and diversity patterns. Coelacanth research can be divided into two distinct periods: the first period, which is based solely on the fossil rec...

The Placerias quarry is a dicynodont-dominated bonebed in Upper Triassic Chinle Group strata near St. Johns in east-central Arizona, USA. Though long identified as being in strata of the lower Chinle Group, recently published numerical ages apparentl...

A cast is an object that results from a fossilization process that is considerably rare in nature. For a cast to be produced, secondary diagenetic processes during and after fossilization are normally involved. Natural casts are formed when minerals...