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palaeontology

the study of fossil animals and plants. Compare NEONTOLOGY.

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Vertebrate palaeontological investigation on Herschel Island began with Harington in 1973 (Harington, 1989, 1990).

New radiocarbon-dated vertebrate fossils from Herschel Island: implications for the palaeoenvironments and glacial chronology of the Beaufort sea coastlands

The former will be stored in the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (Netherlands), the latter in the palaeontological collection of the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University (Sweden).

Typology and fossil assemblage of Sandbian (Ordovician) 'baksteenkalk': an erratic silicified limestone of Baltic origin from the northeastern Netherlands and adjacent areas of Germany

Further, these palaeontological sites offer considerable palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimate information on this particular time period, especially for the Miocene (Van der Meulen and Daams, 1992; Calvo et al.

Composition of clastic sediments in the somosaguas area (middle Miocene, Madrid Basin): insights into provenance and palaeoclimate

PC-GCUF10/24, PC-GCUF-institutional abbreviation for the Palaeontological Collection of Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.

New Remains of Tragoportax (Boselaphini: Bovidae: Mammalia) from Middle Siwaliks of Dhok Pathan, Northern Pakistan

These specimens suggest adventure, palaeontological expeditions to distant locales.

Pursuing prehistory: the global search of David Evans

crassesculpta is just one of thousands of exquisitely preserved fossil creatures pulled from Messel Pit, which has Unesco World Heritage status due to its palaeontological significance.

Extinct turtles fossilised in sexual embrace unearthed in Germany

Following suturing, Ladakh Molasse Basin apparently served as the meeting ground for the fauna from both bio-provinces and thus eventually provides palaeontological view and constraints to the events that followed the collision.

Miocene exotic taxa in the Indian Himalaya and subtle aspects of India-Asia collision

Abbreviations: PUPC, Punjab University Palaeontological Collection; AMNH, American Museum of Natural History; P, premolar; M, molar; L, maximum preserved length; W, maximum preserved width; H, maximum preserved height; GSI, geological survey of India; W/L x 100, width length ratio; H/W x 100, height width ratio; DBAK, Dhok Bun Ameer Khatoon.

CHEEK TEETH OF LISTRIODON PENTAPOTAMIAE FROM THE LOWER SIWALIK HILLS OF PUNJAB, PAKISTAN

2003, Palaeontological evidence bearing on global Ordovician-Silurian continental reconstructions: Earth Science Reviews, v.

Early Paleozoic Peri-Gondwanan Terranes: New Insights from Tectonics and Biogeography

In order to facilitate direct comparison of quantitative palaeontological data with rock characteristics, and thereby with the palaeoenvironment and sedimentary processes, all samples used for microfossil extraction were also studied by means of carbonate analysis and thin sections.

Frequency patterns of chitinozoans, scolecodonts, and conodonts in the upper Llandovery and lower Wenlock of the Paatsalu core, western Estonia/Kitiinikute, skolekodontide ja konodontide arvukuse dunaamika Paatsalu labiloike Ulem-Llandoverys ja Alam-Wenlockis

Palaeontological Results of the Polish Antarctic Expeditions; Part III.

Late Cretaceous plesiosaur teeth from Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada

After some 95 million years, Africa's biggest dinosaur has been unearthed in the Egyptian desert, solving a palaeontological mystery as to what smaller carnivore dinosaurs of the region preyed upon.