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    Papers in Palaeontology: Volume 7, Issue 4

    i-iv, 1753-2284
    November 2021
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  • Page: i
  • First Published: 13 October 2021
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Cover: Holotype of Archaeocidaris ivanovi from the Carboniferous of Russia (PIN 5348/192). Specimen (including matrix) approx. 87 mm wide. (https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1280)

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  • Pages: ii-iv
  • First Published: 13 October 2021

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A previously missing link in the evolution of dasytine soft-winged flower beetles from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera, Melyridae)

Erik Tihelka,  Diying Huang,  Vincent Perrichot,  Chenyang Cai, 
  • Pages: 1753-1764
  • First Published: 11 April 2021
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Phylogenetic affinities and morphology of the Pliocene cathartiform Dryornis pampeanus Moreno & Mercerat

Federico J. Degrange,  Claudia P. Tambussi,  Matías L. Taglioretti,  Fernando A. Scaglia, 
  • Pages: 1765-1780
  • First Published: 16 April 2021
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A new species of the Cambrian bivalved euarthropod Pectocaris with axially differentiated enditic armatures

Changfei Jin,  Huijuan Mai,  Hong Chen,  Yu Liu,  Xianguang Hou,  Ruilin Wen,  Dayou Zhai, 
  • Pages: 1781-1792
  • First Published: 28 April 2021
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Silurian (late Llandovery – Wenlock) conodont fauna and biostratigraphy from the Yanbian area of Sichuan Province, south-west China

Guanzhou Yan,  Rongchang Wu, 
  • Pages: 1793-1824
  • First Published: 28 April 2021
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Morphological–phylogenetic analysis of the late Cenozoic Chlamydini von Teppner (Bivalvia, Pectinidae) of southern South America

María Belén Santelli,  Maximiliano J. Alvarez,  Claudia J. del Río, 
  • Pages: 1825-1846
  • First Published: 30 April 2021
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Rosselichnidae ifam. nov.: burrows with concentric, spiral or eccentric lamination

Dirk Knaust, 
  • Pages: 1847-1875
  • First Published: 08 June 2021
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A Burgess Shale mandibulate arthropod with a pygidium: a case of convergent evolution

Alejandro Izquierdo-López,  Jean-Bernard Caron, 
  • Pages: 1877-1894
  • First Published: 15 June 2021
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Evolutionary pattern of Metacaremys gen. nov. (Rodentia, Octodontidae) and its biochronological implications for the late Miocene and early Pliocene of southern South America

Pedro Piñero,  Diego H. Verzi,  A. Itatí Olivares,  Claudia I. Montalvo,  Rodrigo L. Tomassini,  Ariel Fernández Villoldo, 
  • Pages: 1895-1917
  • First Published: 15 June 2021
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First pan-trionychid turtle (Testudines, Pan-Trionychidae) from the Palaeogene of Africa

Georgios L. Georgalis, 
  • Pages: 1919-1926
  • First Published: 16 June 2021
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Late Cretaceous hydrothermal vent communities from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus: systematics and evolutionary significance

Andrzej Kaim,  Crispin T.S. Little,  William J. Kennedy,  Ellen M. Mears,  Louise M. Anderson, 
  • Pages: 1927-1947
  • First Published: 22 June 2021
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A revision of Vernicomacanthus Miles with comments on the characters of stem-group chondrichthyans

Richard P. Dearden,  Jan L. den Blaauwen,  Ivan J. Sansom,  Carole J. Burrow,  Robert G. Davidson,  Michael J. Newman,  Andy Ko,  Martin D. Brazeau, 
  • Pages: 1949-1976
  • First Published: 29 June 2021
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Panderodus from the Waukesha Lagerstätte of Wisconsin, USA: a primitive macrophagous vertebrate predator

Duncan J. E. Murdock,  M. Paul Smith, 
  • Pages: 1977-1993
  • First Published: 09 July 2021
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Morphological disparity in the evolution of the ophthalmosaurid forefin: new clues from the Upper Jurassic of Argentina

Lisandro Campos,  Marta S. Fernández,  Yanina Herrera,  Alberto Garrido, 
  • Pages: 1995-2020
  • First Published: 14 July 2021
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An unpredicted ancient colonization of the West Indies by North American rodents: dental evidence of a geomorph from the early Oligocene of Puerto Rico

Laurent Marivaux,  Jorge Vélez-Juarbe,  Lázaro W. Viñola López,  Pierre-Henri Fabre,  François Pujos,  Hernán Santos-Mercado,  Eduardo J. Cruz,  Alexandra M. Grajales Pérez,  James Padilla,  Kevin I. Vélez-Rosado,  Jean-Jacques Cornée,  Mélody Philippon,  Philippe Münch,  Pierre-Olivier Antoine, 
  • Pages: 2021-2039
  • First Published: 15 July 2021
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A Silurian ophiuroid with soft-tissue preservation

Reece P. Carter,  Mark D. Sutton,  Derek E. G. Briggs,  Imran A. Rahman,  David J. Siveter,  Derek J. Siveter, 
  • Pages: 2041-2047
  • First Published: 18 July 2021
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An early Eocene fossil from the British London Clay elucidates the evolutionary history of the enigmatic Archaeotrogonidae (Aves, Strisores)

Gerald Mayr, 
  • Pages: 2049-2064
  • First Published: 18 July 2021
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Earliest fossil record of the genus Tetradium (Rutaceae) in Asia: implications for its evolution and palaeoecology

Lu-Liang Huang,  Jian-Hua Jin,  Cheng Quan,  Alexei A. Oskolski, 
  • Pages: 2065-2074
  • First Published: 18 July 2021
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A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil

Arthur S. Brum,  Rodrigo V. Pêgas,  Kamila L. N. Bandeira,  Lucy G. Souza,  Diogenes A. Campos,  Alexander W. A. Kellner, 
  • Pages: 2075-2099
  • First Published: 05 August 2021
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Attenborough's beauty: exceptional pattern preservation in a frog-legged leaf beetle from the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Sagrinae)

Frank-Thorsten Krell,  Francesco Vitali, 
  • Pages: 2101-2112
  • First Published: 05 August 2021
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Evolutionary–phylogenetic pathway of the Cretaceous ammonite genus Aegocrioceras and its relationship to Juddiceras spp. and Crioceratites spp.

Manuel F. G. Weinkauf,  René Hoffmann,  Kurt Wiedenroth, 
  • Pages: 2113-2139
  • First Published: 15 August 2021
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New and revised small shelly fossil record from the lower Cambrian of northern Iran

Léa Devaere,  Dieter Korn,  Abbas Ghaderi,  Ulrich Struck,  Alireza K. Bavandpur, 
  • Pages: 2141-2181
  • First Published: 19 August 2021
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Palynology of a short sequence of the Lower Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation at Cottonwood Canyon (Wyoming): age, depositional environments and plant diversity

Sol Noetinger,  Alexander C. Bippus,  Alexandru M.F. Tomescu, 
  • Pages: 2183-2204
  • First Published: 20 August 2021
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Phylogeny, disparity and mass extinction response in the trilobite order Harpetida

James D. Beech,  James C. Lamsdell, 
  • Pages: 2205-2225
  • First Published: 22 August 2021
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Lophotrochozoa in the Cambrian evolutionary radiation and the Pelagiella problem

Ed Landing,  Gerd Geyer,  Igor A. Jirkov,  Stefano Schiaparelli, 
  • Pages: 2227-2244
  • First Published: 25 August 2021
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The first Silurian trilobite with three-dimensionally preserved soft parts reveals novel appendage morphology

Derek J. Siveter,  Richard A. Fortey,  Derek E. G. Briggs,  David J. Siveter,  Mark D. Sutton, 
  • Pages: 2245-2253
  • First Published: 25 August 2021
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New information on the Jurassic lepidosauromorph Marmoretta oxoniensis

Elizabeth F. Griffiths,  David P. Ford,  Roger B.J. Benson,  Susan E. Evans, 
  • Pages: 2255-2278
  • First Published: 01 September 2021

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Comment on: The ichnogenus Lumbricaria Münster from the Upper Jurassic of Germany interpreted as faecal strings of ammonites

Diego A. Kietzmann,  Graciela S. Bressan, 
  • Pages: 2279-2281
  • First Published: 10 June 2021
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Response to Comment on: The ichnogenus Lumbricaria Münster from the Upper Jurassic of Germany interpreted as faecal strings of ammonites

Dirk Knaust,  René Hoffmann, 
  • Pages: 2283-2284
  • First Published: 11 June 2021