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    Papers in Palaeontology: Volume 8, Issue 1

    January/February 2022
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  • First Published: 15 February 2022
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Cover : Holotype of Eocaiman cavernensis from the Eocene Gran Barranca site, Chubut Province, Argentina (AMNH FARB 3158; image © American Museum of Natural History Division of Paleontology/M. Ellison). Lower jaw measures approx. 18.5 cm in length. (https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1339)

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  • First Published: 21 February 2022

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Early Cretaceous enigmatic insect group showing unique wing venations and antennal sensilla

Hongru Yang,  Chungkun Shih,  Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn,  Dong Ren,  Taiping Gao, 
  • First Published: 23 September 2021
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An unusual shark assemblage from the Ladinian–Carnian interval of South China

Jiachun Li,  Zuoyu Sun,  Gilles Cuny,  Cheng Ji,  Dayong Jiang,  Min Zhou, 
  • First Published: 04 October 2021
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Carboniferous horseshoe crab musculature suggests anatomical conservatism within Xiphosurida

Russell D. C. Bicknell,  Jessica N. Tashman,  Gregory D. Edgecombe,  John R. Paterson, 
  • First Published: 11 October 2021
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Late Ordovician (Katian) linguliform microbrachiopods from north-eastern Yunnan, South China

Di Chen,  Bing Huang,  Wen-Jie Li,  Rong-Yu Li,  Jia-Yu Rong, 
  • First Published: 27 October 2021
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Bone histology of dinocephalians (Therapsida, Dinocephalia): palaeobiological and palaeoecological inferences

Mohd Shafi Bhat,  Christen D. Shelton,  Anusuya Chinsamy, 
  • First Published: 02 November 2021
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Sclerite assembly, articulation and protective system of Lower Devonian machaeridians

Sarah M. Jacquet,  Tara Selly,  James D. Schiffbauer,  Glenn A. Brock, 
  • First Published: 04 November 2021
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First occurrence of Nyssa endocarps and associated fungi in the Oligocene of South China: palaeogeographical and palaeoecological significance

Sheng-Lan Xu,  Tatiana M. Kodrul,  Natalia P. Maslova,  Han-Zhang Song,  Anna V. Tobias,  Xin-Kai Wu,  Cheng Quan,  Jian-Hua Jin, 
  • First Published: 10 November 2021
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A fossil fish assemblage from the middle Miocene of the Cocinetas Basin, northern Colombia

Gustavo A. Ballen,  Carlos Jaramillo,  Fernando C. P. Dagosta,  Mario C. C. de Pinna, 
  • First Published: 18 November 2021
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An early Cambrian mackenziid reveals links to modular Ediacaran macro-organisms

Yang Zhao,  Jakob Vinther,  Yu-Jing Li,  Fan Wei,  Xian-Guang Hou,  Pei-Yun Cong, 
  • First Published: 22 November 2021
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Turtles all the way down: Neogene pig-nosed turtle fossil from southern Australia reveals cryptic freshwater turtle invasions and extinctions

James P. Rule,  Lesley Kool,  William M.G. Parker,  Erich M.G. Fitzgerald, 
  • First Published: 07 December 2021
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North American Spathian (upper Olenekian, Lower Triassic) neogondolellin conodonts

Michael J. Orchard, 
  • First Published: 09 December 2021
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Widespread azendohsaurids (Archosauromorpha, Allokotosauria) from the Late Triassic of western USA and India

Sterling J. Nesbitt,  Michelle R. Stocker,  Martín D. Ezcurra,  Nicholas C. Fraser,  Andrew B. Heckert,  William G. Parker,  Bill Mueller,  Saradee Sengupta,  Saswati Bandyopadhyay,  Adam C. Pritchard,  Adam D. Marsh, 
  • First Published: 10 December 2021
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Multiple occurrences of pathologies suggesting a common and severe bone infection in a population of the Australian Pleistocene giant, Genyornis newtoni (Aves, Dromornithidae)

Phoebe L. McInerney,  Lee J. Arnold,  Carey Burke,  Aaron B. Camens,  Trevor H. Worthy, 
  • First Published: 15 December 2021
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High diversity of siliceous sponges in Western Tethyan areas during the Eocene: palaeobiogeographical, ecological and taxonomic significance

Magdalena Łukowiak,  Andrzej Pisera,  Tetiana Stefanska,  Vadym Stefanskyi, 
  • First Published: 19 December 2021
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Bone-bearing coprolites from the Upper Triassic of India: ichnotaxonomy, probable producers and predator–prey relationships

Nibedita Rakshit,  Sanghamitra Ray, 
  • First Published: 28 December 2021
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Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra-Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño

Erik Isasmendi,  Angelica Torices,  José Ignacio Canudo,  Philip J. Currie,  Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, 
  • First Published: 17 January 2022
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Palaeobiogeography of the family Nisusiidae (Cambrian rhynchonelliform brachiopods) using the ‘area-transition count’ method and systematic revision of Korean species

Yeongju Oh,  Dong-Chan Lee,  Sangmin Lee,  Seung-Bae Lee,  Paul S. Hong,  Jongsun Hong, 
  • First Published: 25 January 2022