Bite forces, canine strength and skull allometry in carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora)
- P. Christiansen, J. Adolfssen
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2005
Previous hypotheses of large taxon differences in canine bending strengths, so that felids have stronger canines than canids, are corroborated when actual bite forces at the upper canine are ignored, and ursids seem to have strongerCanines than felids.
Ceratodus tunuensis, sp. nov., a New Lungfish (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) from the Upper Triassic of Central East Greenland
- F. Agnolin, O. Mateus, L. Clemmensen
- Geography, Environmental ScienceJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology
- 4 March 2018
ABSTRACT The fossil record of post-Paleozoic lungfishes in Greenland is currently restricted to a few brief reports of isolated and undetermined tooth plates coming from the uppermost Fleming Fjord…
Osteology and ecology of Megantereon cultridens SE311 (Mammalia; Felidae; Machairodontinae), a sabrecat from the Late Pliocene – Early Pleistocene of Senéze, France
- P. Christiansen, J. Adolfssen
- Biology
- 1 December 2007
This monograph provides a complete overview of the anatomy of Megantereon cultridens SE311, and compares it with extant large felids, and the few other derived sabrecats from which ample fossil material is known, although most frequently representing several specimens.
Crossing the boundary: an elasmobranch fauna from Stevns Klint, Denmark
- J. Adolfssen, D. Ward
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 1 May 2014
The chondrichthyan faunas from the Danish Maastrichtian chalk and the K/T boundary clay, the Fiskeler, are described for the first time. The rich and diverse fauna discovered in the late…
Neoselachians from the Danian (Early Paleocene) of Denmark
- J. Adolfssen, D. Ward
- Environmental Science
- 24 May 2013
A diverse elasmobranch fauna was collected from the early Danian Rødvig Formation and the early to middle Danian Stevns Klint Formation at Stevns Klint and from the middle Danian Faxe Formation at…
Oxygen isotope fractionation between bird bone phosphate and drinking water
- R. Amiot, D. Angst, C. Lécuyer
- Environmental ScienceSCIENCE NATURE
- 22 May 2017
The data indicate that caution should be exercised when the relationship estimated for modern birds is applied to their basal counterparts that likely had a metabolism intermediate between that of their theropod dinosaur ancestors and that of advanced ornithurines.
The vertebrate-bearing Late Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of central East Greenland revisited: stratigraphy, palaeoclimate and new palaeontological data
- L. Clemmensen, J. Milàn, O. Wings
- Environmental Science, GeographySpecial Publications
- 16 December 2015
Abstract In Late Triassic (Norian–Rhaetian) times, the Jameson Land Basin lay at 40° N on the northern part of the supercontinent Pangaea. This position placed the basin in a transition zone between…
Review of the danian vertebrate fauna of southern Scandinavia
- J. Adolfssen, J. Milàn, M. Friedman
- Environmental Science
- 15 February 2017
The vertebrate fauna in the Danian deposits of Denmark and southern Sweden is reviewed. Remains of sharks and bony fishes are widely distributed but not common in the Danian limestones, with the…
The Late Triassic of Jameson Land revisited: new vertebrate findings and the first phytosaur from Greenland
- O. Mateus, L. Clemmensen, Eliza Jarl Estrup
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 2014
Coprolites from the Late Triassic Kap Stewart Formation, Jameson Land, East Greenland: morphology, classification and prey inclusions
- B. B. Hansen, J. Milàn, O. Wings
- Geography, Environmental ScienceSpecial Publications
- 17 December 2015
Abstract A large collection of vertebrate coprolites from black lacustrine shales in the Late Triassic (Rhaetian–Sinemurian) Kap Stewart Formation, East Greenland is examined with regard to internal…
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