A new large-bodied Pliocene seal with unusual cutting teeth
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DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201591
Abstract: Today, monachine seals display the largest body sizes in pinnipeds. However, the evolution of larger body sizes has been difficult to assess due to the murky taxonomic status of fossil seals, including fossils referred to… read more here.
Keywords: seal unusual; large bodied; new large; pliocene seal ... See more keywords
New large volume Calabi-Yau threefolds
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DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.97.046003
Abstract: In previous work, we have commenced the task of unpacking the 473 800 776 reflexive polyhedra by Kreuzer and Skarke into a database of Calabi-Yau threefolds [R. Altman et al. J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2015) 158.]… read more here.
Keywords: calabi yau; new large; swiss cheese; yau threefolds ... See more keywords
Navicula gogorevii—a new, large-celled diatom species from Vietnam (Southeast Asia)
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DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.428.1.6
Abstract: We describe a new member from the genus Navicula Bory sensu stricto using light and scanning electron microscopy. The new species was found in Vietnam, and is a large-celled species with longitudinal grooves present on… read more here.
Keywords: navicula; gogorevii new; navicula gogorevii; new large ... See more keywords
A new large-bodied, rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) allied to Cnemaspis heteropholis Bauer, 2002 from the Central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India.
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DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4801.1.2
Abstract: We describe a new large-bodied, rupicolous Cnemaspis from near Sakleshpur in the Central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. Cnemaspis magnifica sp. nov. is allied to C. heteropholis and can be diagnosed from all other Indian… read more here.
Keywords: heteropholis; rupicolous cnemaspis; cnemaspis; large bodied ... See more keywords
A new large hypercarnivorous crocodyliform from the Maastrichtian of Southern Patagonia, Argentina
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0328561
Abstract: The first crocodyliform specimen from the Maastrichtian Chorrillo Formation (Austral Basin, Patagonia) is here described. The discovery was made about 30 km to the SW of the town of El Calafate (Province of Santa Cruz,… read more here.
Keywords: large hypercarnivorous; new large; hypercarnivorous crocodyliform; patagonia ... See more keywords
A New Large-Flowered Species of Rhynchosia (Leguminosae) from the Brazilian Caatinga Seasonally Dry Woodlands
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DOI: 10.1600/036364418x697607
Abstract: Abstract The new species Rhynchosia franciscana (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) is described and illustrated from the seasonally dry vegetation on sand dunes of the middle São Francisco River in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The new species… read more here.
Keywords: species rhynchosia; new large; dry woodlands; seasonally dry ... See more keywords
A new large-sized lepetid limpet from the abyssal northwestern Pacific is the deepest known patellogastropod
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DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.156207
Abstract: True limpets in the gastropod subclass Patellogastropoda are familiar members of shallow-water rocky environments but are much rarer in the deep, with just three families adapted to bathyal depths or more. Of these, Lepetidae is… read more here.
Keywords: northwestern pacific; limpet; new large; sized lepetid ... See more keywords