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Uh, sphenodon. Can you bring up a little list of the "fish" centred articles? This thing is massive and it's rather a pain to find some things. Plus, ctrl f doesn't work on pdf for some reason. Maybe thats just me.
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There's also some stuff like undescribed Megaraptorans in Australia, which helps more about that strange theropod group (I think they're basal coelurosaurians currently).
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Jul 20 2017, 10:56 PM
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Any on non-therian mammals? I see the Kayentatherium aquatic habits proposal, but otherwise...

So far I've found:

-Various studies into chewing and teeth; in the field of non-therians, there was a study on symmetrodont chewing mechanisms, another one finding similarities between the molars of docodonts and didelphids in terms of crushing and grinding efficiency, one about Ptilodus' feeding ecology, and another one about possible diphyodonty in haramiyidans (referenced as a possible supporting factor of the group being true mammals).

-The first known metatherian remains recovered from Japan

-First recovered postcranial material from Gondwanan multituberculates

-New early Paleocene (Puertan) multituberculates from Wyoming's Fort Butte Formation

Most of the non-therian discussion seems to be concentrated around page 30 of the PDF; there may be more, but this is what I've seen thus far.

Nice on all accounts.

Especially interested in the latter, since an abstract on a full gondwanathere skeleton came out last SVP.
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Jul 21 2017, 02:00 AM
There's also some stuff like undescribed Megaraptorans in Australia, which helps more about that strange theropod group (I think they're basal coelurosaurians currently).
I remember someone saying the abstract mentioned they found an allosauroid identity.
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Anything from Dinosaur park formation? or Yixian formation? or Santana formation? or Ischigualasto formation?
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Would it kill you to look at the book yourself?
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There's also some stuff like undescribed Megaraptorans in Australia, which helps more about that strange theropod group (I think they're basal coelurosaurians currently).
I remember someone saying the abstract mentioned they found an allosauroid identity.
I thought the only thing about megaraptorans here are that there are two new ones found in EK Thailand, and that it doesn't solve the classification debate
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Is there a pdf like this for "invertebrate" paleontology?
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
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ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

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Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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As far as I can tell, there's no Society of Invertebrate Palaeontology in the first place for there to be an abstract booklet for.
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There's also some stuff like undescribed Megaraptorans in Australia, which helps more about that strange theropod group (I think they're basal coelurosaurians currently).
I remember someone saying the abstract mentioned they found an allosauroid identity.
I thought the only thing about megaraptorans here are that there are two new ones found in EK Thailand, and that it doesn't solve the classification debate
Again, I was just going off someone else saying that that abstract said an allosauroid identity was favored; I haven't read the abstract myself and this could be incorrect.
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Tristan's SVP notes.
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So Trialestes is a definite hot blooded sphenosuchian, and tenrec-echidna type labile homeothermy was present in rhynchosaurids? A tactile origin of tetrapod hands and feet ie. fingers and toes co-evolved with sensory tissue pads? The LCA of protarchaeopterygids (=incisivosaurs) and caenagnathiforms had normal theropod dentition?
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Tristan's Day 2 notes. Microraptor was a piscivore? Kulindadromeus has melanosome preservation? Sinosauropteryx ate what?
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Is the Mason Creek recumbirostran a juvenile? They have bones that ossify early suggesting they hatched or were born without a tadpole stage.

(The word microsaur ought to be redundant but its odd Pardo et al didn't include nectrideans in their analysis, nor mesosaurs or parareptiles, nor Casineria nor Westlothiana...)

Taken with the vulture hock revelation (actually nothing new) the diet of Microraptor ought to refute the silly biplane idea: because you can't hunt fish habitually when you are in a tree. Habib criticised the notion from the beginning, but some people were too quick to dig up Nopsca's hypothetical Tetrapteryx. Just vulture hock plus more extensive foot feathering than is normal for birds today, but see eagle owls, moa, ptarmigan for examples of feathered feet. In owls it is hypothesised feathered toes are armoured against biting prey animals or that feathers evolved there for a tactile function. Despite the number of birds that have foot feathers in montane or arctic habitat there is no reason to think they confer insulatory advantntages over bare feet.
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