MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE CHALLENGES THE RECORDS OF THE EXTANT LIVERWORT PTILIDIUM PULCHERRIMUM IN EOCENE BALTIC AMBER.

Molecular and Morphological Evidence Challenges the Records of the Extant Liverwort Ptilidium pulcherrimum in Eocene Baltic Amber.

Preservation of liverworts in amber, a fossilized tree resin, is often exquisite.Twenty-three fossil species of liverworts have been described to date from Eocene (35-50 Ma) Baltic amber.In addition, two inclusions have been assigned to the extant species Ptilidium pulcherrimum (Ptilidiales or Porellales).However, the presence of the boreal P.pulch

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An extinct deep-snouted Alligator species from the Quaternary of Thailand and comments on the evolution of crushing dentition in alligatorids

Abstract Fossil Alligator remains from Asia are critical for tracing the enigmatic evolutionary origin of the Chinese alligator, Alligator sinensis, the only living representative of Alligatoridae outside the Brake Dial Kit New World.The Asian fossil record is extremely scarce and it remains unknown whether A.sinensis is an anagenetic lineage or al

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