Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2) 2021


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The endemic radiodonts of the Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan Biota of South China

De-Guang Jiao, Stephen Pates, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Jie Yang, Tian Lan, and Xi-Guang Zhang

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 255-274 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00870.2020

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Research history, taphonomy, and age structure of a mass accumulation of the ornithopod dinosaur Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki from the Upper Jurassic of Tanzania

Tom R. Hübner, Christian Foth, Wolf-Dieter Heinrich, Daniela Schwarz, and Robert Bussert

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 275-300 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00687.2019

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Articles

A new zoroasterid asteroid from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica

Evangelina E. Palópolo, Soledad S. Brezina, Silvio Casadio, Miguel Griffin, and Sergio Santillana

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 301-318 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00714.2019

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A low diversity Sinuites gastropod community from the Floian, Early Ordovician, of South Wales

Jan Ove R. Ebbestad and John C.W. Cope

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 319-335 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00854.2020

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New cranial material of the acanthothoracid placoderm Palaeacanthaspis vasta from the Lower Devonian of Podolia—phylogenetic and taxonomic significance

Vincent Dupret, Hubert Szaniawski, Marek Dec, and Piotr Szrek

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 337-347 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00857.2020

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First known gigantic sea turtle from the Maastrichtian deposits in Egypt

Gebely Abdel-Maksoud Abu El-Kheir, Mohamed Korany Abdelgawad, and Walid Gamal Kassab

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 349-355 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00849.2020

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Evidence of two lineages of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs in the Lower Cretaceous of the Czech Republic

Daniel Madzia, Sven Sachs, Mark T. Young, Alexander Lukeneder and Petr Skupien

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 357-367 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00801.2020

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A new plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Portugal and the early radiation of Plesiosauroidea

Eduardo Puértolas-Pascual, Miguel Marx, Octávio Mateus, André Saleiro, Alexandra E. Fernandes, João Marinheiro, Carla Tomás, and Simão Mateus

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 369-388 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00815.2020

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First insight into the diversity of snakes in the Pleistocene of Cuba

Elena Syromyatnikova, Ernesto Aranda and Soraida Fiol González

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 395-407 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00766.2020

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Isolated theropod teeth associated with a sauropod skeleton from the Late Cretaceous Allen Formation of Río Negro, Patagonia, Argentina

Jorge G. Meso, Christophe Hendrickx, Mattia A. Baiano, Juan I. Canale, Leonardo Salgado, and Ignacio Diaz Martinez

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 409-423 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00847.2020

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A new late-surviving early diverging Ibero-Armorican duck-billed dinosaur and the role of the Late Cretaceous European Archipelago in hadrosauroid biogeography

Albert Prieto-Márquez and Miguel Ángel Carrera Farias

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 425-435 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00821.2020

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Femoral histology and growth patterns of the ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus sibiricus from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia

Pavel P. Skutschas, Semyon S. Morozov, Alexander O. Averianov, Sergey V. Leshchinskiy, Stepan V. Ivantsov, Alexey V. Fayngerts, Olga A. Feofanova, Olga N. Vladimirova and Dmitry A. Slobodin

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 437-447 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00819.2020

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Enamel microstructure of permanent and deciduous teeth of a species of notoungulate Toxodon : Development, functional, and evolutionary implications

Patrícia R. Braunn, Jorge Ferigolo, and Ana M. Ribeiro

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 449-464 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00772.2020

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Systematics and paleobiology of Carnivora and Hyaenodonta from the lower Miocene of Buluk, Kenya

Michael Morlo, Anthony Friscia, Ellen R. Miller, Ellis Locke, and Isaiah Nengo

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 465-484 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00794.2020

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Brief report

Can maxillary canal morphology inform varanopid phylogenetic affinities?

Julien Benoit, David P. Ford, Juri A. Miyamae, and Irina Ruf

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 389-393 doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00816.2020

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Book reviews

Dinosaurs and scientific inquiry

Daniel E. Barta

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 436-436 doi:http://doi.org/10.4202/app.00898.2021

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Major dinosaur discoveries in a nutshell

Daniel Madzia

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 (2), 2021: 448-448 doi:http://doi.org/10.4202/app.00906.2021

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