Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains

Authors: Matthew B. Cowen, Marc de Rafélis, Loïc Ségalen, Benjamin P. Kear, Maïtena Dumont, Živilė Žigaitė

Source: PeerJ, Vol 13, p e18763 (2025)

Subject Terms: Biomineral presevation, Diagenesis, Trace elements, REE, Microcathodoluminescence, Dental fossils, Medicine, Biology (General), QH301-705.5

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Relation: https://peerj.com/articles/18763.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/18763/; https://doaj.org/toc/2167-8359

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The rise of macropredatory pliosaurids near the Early-Middle Jurassic transition

Authors: Sven Sachs, Daniel Madzia, Ben Thuy, Benjamin P. Kear

Source: Scientific Reports, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-16 (2023)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322

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Mitogenome of the extinct Desert ‘rat-kangaroo’ times the adaptation to aridity in macropodoids

Authors: Michael Westerman, Stella Loke, Mun Hua Tan, Benjamin P. Kear

Source: Scientific Reports, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2022)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322

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New Ankylosaurian Cranial Remains From the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Albian) Toolebuc Formation of Queensland, Australia

Authors: Timothy G. Frauenfelder, Phil R. Bell, Tom Brougham, Joseph J. Bevitt, Russell D. C. Bicknell, Benjamin P. Kear, Stephen Wroe, Nicolás E. Campione

Source: Frontiers in Earth Science, Vol 10 (2022)

Subject Terms: Ankylosauria, Kunbarrasaurus, Australia, Minmi, Cretaceous, Gondwana, Science

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Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.803505/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2296-6463

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Author Correction: Mitogenome of the extinct Desert ‘rat-kangaroo’ times the adaptation to aridity in macropodoids

Authors: Michael Westerman, Stella Loke, Mun Hua Tan, Benjamin P. Kear

Source: Scientific Reports, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-1 (2023)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322

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An anhanguerian pterodactyloid mandible from the lower Valanginian of Northern Germany, and the German record of Cretaceous pterosaurs

Authors: Pascal Abel, Jahn J. Hornung, Benjamin P. Kear, Sven Sachs

Source: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Vol 66, Iss 3, Pp s005-s012 (2021)

Subject Terms: pterosauria, pterodactyloidea, anhangueria, cretaceous, stadthagen formation, lower saxony, Fossil man. Human paleontology, GN282-286.7, Paleontology, QE701-760

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Relation: http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app66/app008182020.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/0567-7920; https://doaj.org/toc/1732-2421

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Tooth morphology elucidates shark evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

Authors: Mohamad Bazzi, Nicolás E. Campione, Per E. Ahlberg, Henning Blom, Benjamin P. Kear

Source: PLoS Biology, Vol 19, Iss 8 (2021)

Subject Terms: Biology (General), QH301-705.5

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Relation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8354442/?tool=EBI; https://doaj.org/toc/1544-9173; https://doaj.org/toc/1545-7885

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Climbing adaptations, locomotory disparity and ecological convergence in ancient stem ‘kangaroos’

Authors: Wendy Den Boer, Nicolás E. Campione, Benjamin P. Kear

Source: Royal Society Open Science, Vol 6, Iss 2 (2019)

Subject Terms: macropodoidea, balbaridae, nambaroo, dendrolagus, gait evolution, miocene, Science

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2054-5703

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Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the 'Wealden facies' of Germany

Authors: Sven Sachs, Jahn J. Hornung, Benjamin P. Kear

Source: PeerJ, Vol 4, p e2813 (2016)

Subject Terms: Leptocleididae, Elasmosauridae, Gronausaurus wegneri, Berriasian, Wealden facies, Bückeberg Group, Medicine, Biology (General), QH301-705.5

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Relation: https://peerj.com/articles/2813.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/2813/; https://doaj.org/toc/2167-8359

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Plesiosaur remains from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England.

Authors: Benjamin P. Kear, Andrew R. Milner, Paul M. Barrett

Source: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association; Jun2009, Vol. 120 Issue 2/3, p121-125, 5p

A new fossil kangaroo from the Oligocene-Miocene Etadunna Formation of Ngama Quarry, Lake Palankarinna, South Australia.

Authors: Benjamin P. Kear¹, Neville S. Pledge²

Source: Australian Journal of Zoology. Vol. 55 Issue 6, p331-339. 9p.

Unusual gut contents in a Cretaceous ichthyosaur.

Authors: Benjamin P. Kear¹, Walter E. Boles, Elizabeth T. Smith

Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Nov2003 Supplement 2, Vol. 270, p206-208. 3p.

Subject Terms: *ICHTHYOSAURUS, *REPTILES, *ORNITHINE, *ENANTIOMERS

Pathological survey on Temnodontosaurus from the Early Jurassic of southern Germany.

Authors: Judith M Pardo-Pérez, Benjamin P Kear, Heinrich Mallison, Marcelo Gómez, Manuel Moroni, Erin E Maxwell

Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 10, p e0204951 (2018)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6200200?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203

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Exceptionally prolonged tooth formation in elasmosaurid plesiosaurians.

Authors: Benjamin P Kear, Dennis Larsson, Johan Lindgren, Martin Kundrát

Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 2, p e0172759 (2017)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5328283?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203

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A new species of the basal 'kangaroo' Balbaroo and a re-evaluation of stem macropodiform interrelationships.

Authors: Karen H Black, Kenny J Travouillon, Wendy Den Boer, Benjamin P Kear, Bernard N Cooke, Michael Archer

Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 11, p e112705 (2014)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203

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Revised vertebral count in the 'longest-necked vertebrate' Elasmosaurus platyurus Cope 1868, and clarification of the cervical-dorsal transition in Plesiosauria.

Authors: Sven Sachs, Benjamin P Kear, Michael J Everhart

Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 8, p e70877 (2013)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23940656/pdf/?tool=EBI; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203

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Photographic Atlas and three-dimensional reconstruction of the holotype skull of Euhelopus zdanskyi with description of additional cranial elements.

Authors: Stephen F Poropat, Benjamin P Kear

Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 11, p e79932 (2013)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24278222/?tool=EBI; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203

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First dinosaurs from Saudi Arabia.

Authors: Benjamin P Kear, Thomas H Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Mohammed A Ali, Yahya A Al-Mufarreh, Adel H Matari, Abdu M Al-Massari, Abdulaziz H Nasser, Yousry Attia, Mohammed A Halawani

Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 12, p e84041 (2013)

Subject Terms: Medicine, Science

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Relation: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3873419?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203

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Elasmosauridae

Contributors: Dr Benjamin P. Kear (identifier)

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Elasmosauridae

Contributors: Dr Benjamin P. Kear (identifier)

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