Tag: Carboniferous
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Paper: New Janassid Petalodontiform (Chondrichthyes) teeth from the Late Carboniferous of Kansas, USA
Bruce and Rene’ Lauer have been very busy. They are listed as co-authors of a new paper about shark teeth from the Late Carboniferous of Kansas – “New Janassid Petalodontiform (Chondrichthyes) teeth from the Late Carboniferous of Kansas, USA”. The paper was published in the jounal Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abstract An associated…
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PBS Eons: Could You Survive The Carboniferous Period?
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about the coal swamps of the late Carboniferous Period. The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes – the ancestors of all reptiles, birds, and mammals to come – to earn the title of Fully Terrestrial…
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Paleontologists Discover Two New Shark Species From Fossils in Mammoth Cave National Park
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about a new fossil discovery. Two new shark species from the Carboniferous have been described from Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. Troglocladodus trimblei and Glikmanius careforum lived during the Carboniferous Period some 325 million yerars ago. Both measured about 10 to 12 feet long. The paper “Sharks in the dark:…
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Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms unlike any you’ve ever seen before
Phys.org has a story about the discovery of an amazingly preserved “tree” from New Brunswick, Canada. The fossils, which date to about 350 million years ago during the Mississippian Period, consist of multiple specimens with one preserving how the “leaves” were distributed in the crown of the tree. Usually, just the trunk of trees are…
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PBS Eons: When Giant Millipedes Reigned
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the giant millipede Arthropleura, which lived during the Carboniferous Period. Arthropleura fossils are rare and this is one of the largest and the oldest. This giant millipede was the largest known invertebrate to ever live on land. So how did it get so big??
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PBS Eons: When the Rainforests Collapsed
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about the plants during the Carboniferous Period. That’s the same time period as Mazon Creek! This episode discusses one of just two mass extinctions of plants in the fossil record. Spoiler… Climate Change played a big role. The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for…
