Gondwana to Asia: Plate tectonics, paleogeography and the biological connectivity of the Indian sub-continent from the Middle Jurassic through latest Eocene (166 …

JR Ali, JC Aitchison - Earth-Science Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Using the most up-to-the-date information available, we present a considerably revised plate
tectonic and paleogeographic model for the Indian Ocean bordering continents, from …

Madagascar: heads it'sa continent, tails it's an island

MJ Wit - Annual review of earth and planetary sciences, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Neither geologists nor biologists have a definition that is capable of classifying
Madagascar unambiguously as an island or a continent; nor can they incorporate Malagasy …

[KÖNYV][B] Island biogeography: ecology, evolution, and conservation

RJ Whittaker, JM Fernández-Palacios - 2007 - books.google.com
Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island
environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are …

[KÖNYV][B] The microstructure of dinosaur bone

A Chinsamy-Turan - 2005 - press.jhu.edu
For millions of years, clues to the biology of dinosaurs lie locked within the microscopic
structure of their bones. Here one of the world's leading experts on fossil bone …

Conservation of total synaptic weight through balanced synaptic depression and potentiation

S Royer, D Paré - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Memory is believed to depend on activity-dependent changes in the strength of synapses. In
part, this view is based on evidence that the efficacy of synapses can be enhanced or …

The biogeographic and tectonic history of India

JC Briggs - Journal of Biogeography, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To present an up to date account of the Mesozoic history of India and its relationship to
the other Gondwana continents and to Eurasia. Location Continents surrounding the …

CRANIOFACIAL ANATOMY OF MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS (THEROPODA: ABELISAURIDAE) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR

SD Sampson, LM Witmer - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Recent fieldwork in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation, northwest
Madagascar, has yielded important new skull material of the abelisaurid theropod …

New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography

SF Poropat, PD Mannion, P Upchurch, SA Hocknull… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Australian dinosaurs have played a rare but controversial role in the debate surrounding the
effect of Gondwanan break-up on Cretaceous dinosaur distribution. Major spatiotemporal …

Avian evolution, Gondwana biogeography and the Cretaceous–Tertiary mass extinction event

J Cracraft - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …, 2001 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fossil record has been used to support the origin and radiation of modern birds
(Neornithes) in Laurasia after the Cretaceous–Tertiary mass extinction event, whereas …

The osteology of Masiakasaurus knopfleri, a small abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar

MT Carrano, SD Sampson… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
We describe the osteology of the new small theropod dinosaur Masiakasaurus knopfleri,
from the Late Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of northwestern Madagascar …