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Post by blaze on Apr 27, 2014 17:51:07 GMT 5
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-014-1173-3#page-1Complex rostral neurovascular system in a giant pliosaur Abstract Pliosaurs were a long-lived, ubiquitous group of Mesozoic marine predators attaining large body sizes (up to 12 m). Despite much being known about their ecology and behaviour, the mechanisms they adopted for prey detection have been poorly investigated and represent a mystery to date. Complex neurovascular systems in many vertebrate rostra have evolved for prey detection. However, information on the occurrence of such systems in fossil taxa is extremely limited because of poor preservation potential. The neurovascular complex from the snout of an exceptionally well-preserved pliosaur from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic, c. 170 Myr ago) of Weymouth Bay (Dorset, UK) is described here for the first time. Using computed tomography (CT) scans, the extensive bifurcating neurovascular channels could be traced through the rostrum to both the teeth and the foramina on the dorsal and lateral surface of the snout. The structures on the surface of the skull and the high concentrations of peripheral rami suggest that this could be a sensory system, perhaps similar to crocodile pressure receptors or shark electroreceptors. Is the number 6 of the papers published in 2014. |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2014 6:22:42 GMT 5
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Post by theropod on May 3, 2014 13:58:47 GMT 5
OK guys,I don’t want to be a smartarse, but this belongs on another thread→, for recommending research works. This one is for requesting or posting requested papers. |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2014 20:20:06 GMT 5
I knew I was doing something wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 9:32:02 GMT 5
Does anyone have(or know where to get) the description paper for Titanosuchus ferox?
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Post by creature386 on Jun 16, 2014 18:32:17 GMT 5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2014 9:09:34 GMT 5
Yet another paper I have to register and log in just to get. |
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Post by creature386 on Jun 17, 2014 17:08:53 GMT 5
Don't worry, I am sure in two days or so blaze will rescue us all.
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Post by Derdadort on Jun 17, 2014 20:26:00 GMT 5
I wonder how he's going to manage it. It seems that at least no German institution has access to the journal (wtf?).
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Post by creature386 on Jun 17, 2014 21:21:49 GMT 5
Well, maybe a Mexican has, who know? It can't be that no institutions have this journal.
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Post by Derdadort on Jun 17, 2014 21:51:37 GMT 5
Yeah, it seems like Germany, France and Australia are the only supported countries without institution.
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Post by blaze on Jun 18, 2014 2:50:17 GMT 5
The paper is here. and this link is to directly download the pdf. It's ridiculous, IMO, that the geological society themselves put 135 year old papers behind a paywall, these things should be in the public domain! btw, as I've mentioned before, the biodiversity heritage library is a very good resource when it comes to finding old publications, for example, this particular paper was published in The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London journal, BHL has freely available from the 1st volume to the 79th.
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Post by theropod on Jul 24, 2014 16:33:54 GMT 5
Does anyone know where to find this paper or an alternative?
Senter, P. (2007): A new look at the phylogeny of Coelurosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
EDIT: The paper doesn’t seem available anywhere but at least the abstract already gives the relevant phylogenetic information. I can work with that if I have to.
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Post by theropod on Sept 20, 2014 2:52:34 GMT 5
Russell, D.A.; Isolated dinosaur bones from the Middle Cretaceous of the Tafilalt, Morocco. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (4e série), 18 (1996); 349-402
I’ve been searching for this paper for quite some time now, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Do any of you have an idea?
Among other things this seems to describe the big probable spinosaurid humerus that has been mentioned by Ibrahim and colleagues and previously discussed on the internet.
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Post by Derdadort on Sept 27, 2014 19:10:28 GMT 5
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