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  2. 2024 in reptile paleontology - Wikipedia

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    Mooney et al. (2024) describe a skeleton of Captorhinus aguti from the Richards Spur locality (Oklahoma, United States), preserved with integumentary structures interpreted as remnants of the epidermis, and showing surface morphologies of the skin consistent with variation in most extant and extinct reptiles. [143] Buffa et al. (2024) propose a ...

  3. 2024 in paleontology - Wikipedia

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    Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (), palynomorphs and chemical residues.

  4. Category:2024 in paleontology - Wikipedia

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    2024 in paleontology; 2024 in reptile paleontology; A. Apex (dinosaur) Q. Quaestio (genus) This page was last edited on 12 December 2023, at 20:34 (UTC). Text ...

  5. Fossil from Germany unlocks history of ancient flying reptiles

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    Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout and a ...

  6. Gigantic marine reptile's fossils found by British girl and ...

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    A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the ...

  7. Fossils of ancient crocodile-like reptile found in Brazil - AOL

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    A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs. The fossils of the predator ...

  8. 2025 in reptile paleontology - Wikipedia

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    Su et al. (2025) describe two new specimens of Glyphoderma kangi, providing new information on the anatomy of the studied placodont. [4]Marx et al. (2025) report evidence of preservation of skin traces, including smooth skin on the tail and scaly skin on the flippers, as well as evidence of preservation of melanosomes and keratinocytes in a plesiosaur specimen from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia ...

  9. 2024 in paleoentomology - Wikipedia

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    Frese, McCurry & Wells (2024) describe pupae and uncased larvae of caddisflies from the Miocene McGraths Flat Lagerstätte (), including specimens with large compound eyes preserving details of the rhabdoms and corneal nanocoating and with other external and internal structures, and interpret the environment of the studied caddisflies as affected by cyclic catastrophic events.