Publications by authors named "Jerome Tabouelle"
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- The mid-Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage in south-eastern Morocco is one of the most diverse continental groups of its time, featuring a variety of bony fish including lungfish, coelacanths, and ray-finned fish.
- Recent studies have identified several lungfish species, including a new mention of Arganodus tiguidiensis, and clarified the classification of certain ginglymodians and teleosteans from the assemblage.
- The findings suggest that while this fossil ecosystem showed large body sizes and a higher average trophic level compared to modern freshwater ecosystems, it was still lower than that of current marine systems, highlighting its unique ecological characteristics.
We report on very small fossil eggs from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand, one of them containing a theropod embryo, which display a remarkable mosaic of characters. While the surficial ornamentation is typical of non-avian saurischian dinosaurs, the three-layered prismatic structure of the eggshell is currently known only in extant and fossil eggs associated with birds. These eggs, about the size of a goldfinch's, mirror at the reproductive level the retention of small body size that was paramount in the transition from non-avian theropods to birds.
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