Testing hypotheses in macroevolution

L Bromham - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2016 - Elsevier
Experimental manipulation of microevolution (changes in frequency of heritable traits in
populations) has shed much light on evolutionary processes. But many evolutionary …

The mid-Cretaceous Peninsular Ranges orogeny: a new slant on Cordilleran tectonics? III: the orogenic foredeep

RS Hildebrand, JP Bhattacharya… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
The Cretaceous Western Interior Basin reflects the interplay between the North American
craton and allochthonous terranes to the west. We divide the basinal stratigraphy into three …

Large-diameter burrows of the Triassic Ischigualasto Basin, NW Argentina: paleoecological and paleoenvironmental implications

CE Colombi, E Fernández, BS Currie, OA Alcober… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Large-diameter ichnofossils comprising three morphotypes have been identified in the
Upper Triassic Ischigualasto and Los Colorados formations of northwestern Argentina …

[HTML][HTML] Gastroliths and Deinonychus teeth associated with a skeleton of Tenontosaurus from the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Montana, USA

JR Nudds, DR Lomax, JP Tennant - Cretaceous Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Tenontosaurus tilletti was an abundant ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of
North America, commonly regarded as a 'basal'iguanodontian. Here, we describe a …

Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) chelonian burrows preserved in floodplain deposits in the Bauru Basin of Brazil: Evidence for the fossorial origin of turtle shells

GTG Silva, DL Nascimento, A Batezelli… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Burrowing behavior is an important adaptation of animals that live in arid and semi-arid
conditions. In this paper, we describe examples of vertebrate burrows from the Upper …

Palaeoecological implications of an Upper Cretaceous tetrapod burrow (Bauru Basin; Peirópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil)

AG Martinelli, G Basilici, LE Fiorelli, C Klock… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
We describe a globally rare example of a tetrapod burrow from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru
Group (Bauru Basin) from Peirópolis, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The sedimentary …

Pareisactus evrostos, a new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of southwestern Europe.

J PÁrraga, A Prieto-mÁrquez - Zootaxa, 2019 - europepmc.org
We describe a new genus and species of a basal iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur,
Pareisactus evrostos, from lower Maastrichtian strata of the Conques Formation in the south …

Ecological correlates of the morphology of the auditory bulla in rodents: Application to the fossil record

EA Scarpitti, JJM Calede - Journal of Anatomy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For rodents, hearing is essential to survival. It enables predator evasion, prey detection, and
conspecific recognition; it is also likely to be constrained by the physical environment. The …

New occurrences of fossilized feathers: systematics and taphonomy of the Santana Formation of the Araripe Basin (Cretaceous), NE, Brazil

GMEM Prado, LE Anelli, S Petri, GR Romero - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Here we describe three fossil feathers from the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation of the
Araripe Basin, Brazil. Feathers are the most complex multiform vertebrate integuments; they …

A reappraisal of Notohypshilophodon comodorensis (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina

LM Ibiricu, RD Martínez, M Luna, GA Casal - 2014 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The Bajo Barreal Formation (Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous; central Patagonia, Argentina)
preserves an important and rich fossil record. Among the dinosaurs described, a small …