@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Bite marks provide direct evidence for trophic interactions and competition in the fossil record. However, variations in paleoecological dynamics, such as trophic relationships, feeding behavior, and food availability, govern the frequency of these traces. Theropod bite marks are particularly rare, suggesting that members of this clade might not […]
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WFS News: Fossil bite marks of Theropod connected with feeding nature
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No Comments »WFS News: The last known freshwater coelacanths
June 13th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The last known freshwater coelacanths: New Late Cretaceous mawsoniid remains (Osteichthyes: Actinistia) from Southern France Abstract Coelacanths are iconic fishes represented today by a single marine genus. The group was a little bit more diversified in the Mesozoic, with representatives in marine and continental environments in the Late […]
Posted in General Tags: Coelacanths, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Trackway evidence for large bipedal crocodylomorphs from the Cretaceous of Korea
June 12th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Trackway evidence for large bipedal crocodylomorphs from the Cretaceous of Korea Kyung Soo Kim, Martin G. Lockley, Jong Deock Lim, Seul Mi Bae & Anthony Romilio Scientific Reports volume 10, Article number: 8680 (2020) Abstract Large well-preserved crocodylomorph tracks from the Lower Cretaceous (? Aptian) Jinju Formation of South Korea, represent the well-known crocodylomorph ichnogenus Batrachopus. The […]
Posted in General Tags: crocodylomorphs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: First Fossil Frog
June 9th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia Cenozoic ectothermic continental tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) have not been documented previously from Antarctica, in contrast to all other continents. Here we report a fossil ilium and an ornamented skull bone […]
Posted in General Tags: Eocene, fossil, Frog, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Ectoparasitism and infections in the exoskeletons of large fossil cingulates
May 31st, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Ectoparasitism and infections in the exoskeletons of large fossil cingulates Studies on paleopathological alterations in fossil vertebrates, including damages caused by infections and ectoparasites, are important because they are potential sources of paleoecological information. Analyzing exoskeleton material (isolated osteoderms, carapace and caudal tube fragments) from fossil cingulates of the […]
Posted in General Tags: cingulates, Ectoparasitism, fossil, infections, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: First tapejarid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation
May 28th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev First tapejarid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation (Wealden Group: Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of the United Kingdom An isolated, partial premaxilla from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation of Yaverland, Isle of Wight, UK is identified as pterosaurian on account of its overall morphology and thin bone walls. It is […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tapejarid pterosaur, Wessex Formation, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 540m-year-old bug tracks discovered
May 28th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The oldest known footprints on Earth, left by an ancient creepy-crawly more than 500 million years ago, have been discovered in China. The tracks were left by a primitive ancestor of modern-day insects or worms, according to scientists. Precisely what the creature looked like is a mystery, though: […]
Posted in General Tags: bug tracks, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev WFS News, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Articulated remains of the extinct shark Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Spain
May 27th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In 1996, palaeontologists found skeletal remains of a giant shark at the northern coast of Spain, near the city Santander. Here, the coast comprises meter high limestone walls that were deposited during the Cretaceous period, around 85 million years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the world. Scientists from […]
Posted in General Tags: Ptychodus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New Dinosaur Elaphrosaur Unearthed in Australia
May 20th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The newly-discovered dinosaur belongs to Elaphrosaurinae, an enigmatic group of gracile ceratosaurian dinosaurs known from the Late Jurassic period of Africa and Asia, and the early Late Cretaceous period of Argentina. “Elaphrosaurs were strange looking dinosaurs — they ran low to the ground on two legs, with a slender […]
Posted in General Tags: elaphrosaurine, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Skeleton of a Cretaceous mammal from Madagascar reflects long-term insularity
May 8th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In evolutionary terms, islands are the stuff of weirdness. It is on islands where animals evolve in isolation, often for millions of years, with different food sources, competitors, predators, and parasites…indeed, different everything compared to mainland species. As a result, they develop into different shapes and sizes and […]
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