Pub Date : 2024-04-25DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2330581
L. J. Krumenacker, David J. Varricchio, Chris Organ, Jacob D. Gardner, Brooks B. Britt, Clint Boyd
The vertebrate assemblages of the Albian to Cenomanian Wayan Formation of southeastern Idaho and southwestern Montana’s coeval Vaughn Member of the Blackleaf Formation are dominated by the small, b...
{"title":"Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of the mid-Cretaceous neornithischian dinosaur Oryctodromeus cubicularis Varricchio, 2007","authors":"L. J. Krumenacker, David J. Varricchio, Chris Organ, Jacob D. Gardner, Brooks B. Britt, Clint Boyd","doi":"10.1080/02724634.2024.2330581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2330581","url":null,"abstract":"The vertebrate assemblages of the Albian to Cenomanian Wayan Formation of southeastern Idaho and southwestern Montana’s coeval Vaughn Member of the Blackleaf Formation are dominated by the small, b...","PeriodicalId":17597,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141550181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-23DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2336145
William Richardson, Nuria Melisa Morales-García, John Damuth, Suresh Singh, Christine M. Janis
The larger species in many mammalian clades have relatively longer faces than their smaller relatives. This has been shown to be true for extant kangaroos (Macropodinae), who follow the CREA rule o...
{"title":"Why the short face? The face lengths of sthenurine kangaroos scale with negative allometry","authors":"William Richardson, Nuria Melisa Morales-García, John Damuth, Suresh Singh, Christine M. Janis","doi":"10.1080/02724634.2024.2336145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2336145","url":null,"abstract":"The larger species in many mammalian clades have relatively longer faces than their smaller relatives. This has been shown to be true for extant kangaroos (Macropodinae), who follow the CREA rule o...","PeriodicalId":17597,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140812243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2326644
Henry S. Sharpe, Mark J. Powers, Aaron D. Dyer, Matthew M. Rhodes, Annie P. McIntosh, Christiana W. Garros, Philip J. Currie, Gregory F. Funston
Edmontosaurus regalis is a hadrosaurid represented by abundant fossil material from the late Campanian–early Maastrichtian of what is now Alberta, Canada. Despite its prevalence, juvenile cranioman...
{"title":"Craniomandibular anatomy of a juvenile specimen of Edmontosaurus regalis Lambe, 1917 clarifies issues in ontogeny and biogeography","authors":"Henry S. Sharpe, Mark J. Powers, Aaron D. Dyer, Matthew M. Rhodes, Annie P. McIntosh, Christiana W. Garros, Philip J. Currie, Gregory F. Funston","doi":"10.1080/02724634.2024.2326644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2326644","url":null,"abstract":"Edmontosaurus regalis is a hadrosaurid represented by abundant fossil material from the late Campanian–early Maastrichtian of what is now Alberta, Canada. Despite its prevalence, juvenile cranioman...","PeriodicalId":17597,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140590871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2335174
Robert B. Holmes
The skull of Plioplatecarpus possesses large orbits and a large parietal foramen. Although the large orbits suggest that Plioplatecarpus possessed large eyes with enhanced visual performance, none ...
{"title":"Evaluation of the photosensory characteristics of the lateral and pineal eyes of Plioplatecarpus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) based on an exceptionally preserved specimen from the Bearpaw Shale (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of southern Alberta","authors":"Robert B. Holmes","doi":"10.1080/02724634.2024.2335174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2335174","url":null,"abstract":"The skull of Plioplatecarpus possesses large orbits and a large parietal foramen. Although the large orbits suggest that Plioplatecarpus possessed large eyes with enhanced visual performance, none ...","PeriodicalId":17597,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140590859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2323384
Alan W. Zdinak, Steven J. Jabo
Published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《古脊椎动物学报》(2024 年,提前出版)
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Pub Date : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2328658
Kelsey M. Jenkins, Christopher J. Bell, P. John Hancox, Patrick J. Lewis
Palacrodon, a near-crown stem reptile, is known from several Triassic sites across the globe, and is easily recognized by its dentition characterized by labiolingually expanded molariform teeth cou...
{"title":"A new species of Palacrodon and a unique form of tooth attachment in reptiles","authors":"Kelsey M. Jenkins, Christopher J. Bell, P. John Hancox, Patrick J. Lewis","doi":"10.1080/02724634.2024.2328658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2328658","url":null,"abstract":"Palacrodon, a near-crown stem reptile, is known from several Triassic sites across the globe, and is easily recognized by its dentition characterized by labiolingually expanded molariform teeth cou...","PeriodicalId":17597,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140590868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2322740
Isaac Magallanes, K. Christopher Beard, Thomas Martin, Zhe-Xi Luo
We report a micro-CT study of a new specimen of Dryolestes priscus (Dryolestidae, Cladotheria) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming. The fossil (KUVP 134101) is an incomplete lower...
{"title":"A new dryolestid fossil from the Late Jurassic illuminates molar root structure of dryolestids","authors":"Isaac Magallanes, K. Christopher Beard, Thomas Martin, Zhe-Xi Luo","doi":"10.1080/02724634.2024.2322740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2322740","url":null,"abstract":"We report a micro-CT study of a new specimen of Dryolestes priscus (Dryolestidae, Cladotheria) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming. The fossil (KUVP 134101) is an incomplete lower...","PeriodicalId":17597,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140591106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2316665
J. Logan King, Julia B. McHugh, Mathew J. Wedel, Brian Curtice
Postcranial pneumaticity is interpreted as a weight saving adaptation in sauropod dinosaurs, especially in the vertebral column. In some derived sauropods pneumatic features also occur on vertebral...
{"title":"A previously unreported form of dorsal rib pneumaticity in Apatosaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) and implications for pneumatic variation among diplodocid dorsal ribs","authors":"J. Logan King, Julia B. McHugh, Mathew J. Wedel, Brian Curtice","doi":"10.1080/02724634.2024.2316665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2316665","url":null,"abstract":"Postcranial pneumaticity is interpreted as a weight saving adaptation in sauropod dinosaurs, especially in the vertebral column. In some derived sauropods pneumatic features also occur on vertebral...","PeriodicalId":17597,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140590869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2326027
Susannah C. R. Maidment
Understanding how biodiversity has changed through time and space is a central aim of paleobiology. To elucidate accurate biodiversity patterns in deep time, regional case studies, where sampling b...
{"title":"Diversity through time and space in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, western U.S.A.","authors":"Susannah C. R. Maidment","doi":"10.1080/02724634.2024.2326027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2326027","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding how biodiversity has changed through time and space is a central aim of paleobiology. To elucidate accurate biodiversity patterns in deep time, regional case studies, where sampling b...","PeriodicalId":17597,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140590755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2322749
Benjamin T. Breeden III, Nozomu Oyama, Makoto Manabe, Humio Takahashi, Chisako Sakata
We describe an assemblage of isolated hybodontiform shark teeth from the nonmarine Upper Triassic (Carnian) Momonoki Formation in the town of Ominecho in Mine, Yamaguchi, Japan. These teeth were fi...
{"title":"A new freshwater lonchidiid hybodontiform shark (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Triassic Momonoki Formation in Yamaguchi, Japan","authors":"Benjamin T. Breeden III, Nozomu Oyama, Makoto Manabe, Humio Takahashi, Chisako Sakata","doi":"10.1080/02724634.2024.2322749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2322749","url":null,"abstract":"We describe an assemblage of isolated hybodontiform shark teeth from the nonmarine Upper Triassic (Carnian) Momonoki Formation in the town of Ominecho in Mine, Yamaguchi, Japan. These teeth were fi...","PeriodicalId":17597,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140302750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}