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Publikováno v:
PeerJ, Vol 7, p e6112 (2019)
Ichthyosaur fossils are abundant in Lower Jurassic sediments with nine genera found in the UK. In this paper, we describe the partial skeleton of a large ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic (lower Sinemurian) of Warwickshire, England, which was conse
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https://doaj.org/article/8df5f557a1634be4a9e86a051e8531f9
Autor:
Nigel R. Larkin
Publikováno v:
Geological Curator. 11:341-354
A ~60-70% complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Stan recently sold for 31.8 million US dollars to an unknown buyer (announced in March 2022 as the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi), pushing up the price of all such skeletons way beyond the bud
Autor:
Nigel R. Larkin
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 133:114-115
Autor:
Nigel R. Larkin
Publikováno v:
Geological Curator. 11:33-38
You may discover a specimen in your collection that is suffering from pyrite decay and it may already appear to be too late to save it. However, a pile of ash-like substance in a card tray might look like it is destined only for the bin but careful c
Publikováno v:
Geological Curator. 11:19-26
Pyrite oxidation (or pyrite decay) has been a problem in museum collections for many years. The damage to specimens can include total loss of the object and its label. There is no cure: the changes cannot be reversed but the process can be halted. Pr
Autor:
Nigel R. Larkin, Caroline J. Buttler
Publikováno v:
Geological Curator. 10:243-252
In 2004 a large and exceptionally well preserved 300 million year old fossilised giant clubmoss plant was discovered in a newly exposed fossil forest site near Wrexham, north Wales. The location, a former steelworks that had operated for over 100 yea
Autor:
Nigel R. Larkin, Laura B. Porro
Publikováno v:
Collection Forum. 30:73-84
Specimens of extinct animals are among the most precious items in a museum’s collection. They are vital for research and education, especially those that have become extinct relatively recently due to human activity. Only seven skeletons of the ext
Publikováno v:
Quaternary Research. 84:69-81
Late Quaternary reflooding of the Persian Gulf climaxed with the mid-Holocene highstand previously variously dated between 6 and 3.4 ka. Examination of the stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental context of a mid-Holocene whale beaching allows us to acc
Publikováno v:
Geological Journal. 51:42-50
A new fossil-bearing, Upper Carboniferous (lower Westphalian) locality in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK, is reported and an account of the fossils is presented. The diverse flora and fauna consists of plants, bivalves, arthropods (primarily xiphosur
Publikováno v:
Quaternary International. 341:46-58
Fluvial sediments (Cromer Forest-bed Formation) at Sidestrand, northeast Norfolk, have yielded the most extensive preglacial early Middle Pleistocene cold (arctic) stage beetle assemblage known from Britain. The assemblage is composed of 59 taxa indi