Boring Lizards: Ludic Management, Affect and Ambivalence by Merlyn Seller

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Ancient Deep Sea Bottom in Modern Mountains: New Aspects of Geoheritage from Guzeripl in Southwestern Russia by Anna V. Mikhailenko, Dmitry A. Ruban

“…The small town of Guzeripl in the Western Caucasus (southwestern Russia) experiences tourism-triggered development. Five localities, which are parts of two earlier established geosites, are found directly in this settlement and in its vicinity. …”
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Detailed anatomy of the braincase of Macelognathus vagans Marsh, 1884 (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) using high resolution tomography and new insights on basal crocodylomorph phylo... by Juan Martin Leardi, Diego Pol, James Matthew Clark

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High frequency subtidal-peritidal cycles of the Callovian Calabozo Formation (Neuquén Basin, Western Argentina): Preliminary approach by Ricardo Manuel Palma, Gabriela Lo Forte, Mohammed Medhli, Ricardo D. Piethé

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Plant macrofossils, ichnofossils, facies analysis and palaeoenvironment interpretation of the Hojedk Formation in the north of Kerman (Central Iran) by Hadis Khalilizadeh, Abbas Ghaderi, Ali Reza Ashouri, Hamed Zand-Moghadam

“…Middle Jurassic ichno fossils of the Hojedk Formation in the Deh-Sheikh section have been studied for the first time. …”
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New insights into the lifestyle of Allosaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) based on another specimen with multiple pathologies by Christian Foth, Serjoscha W. Evers, Ben Pabst, Octávio Mateus, Alexander Flisch, Mike Patthey, Oliver W.M. Rauhut

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A Synoptic Review of the Cartilaginous Fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätten of Southern Germany: Taxonomy, Diversity,... by Eduardo Villalobos-Segura, Sebastian Stumpf, Julia Türtscher, Patrick L. Jambura, Arnaud Begat, Faviel A. López-Romero, Jan Fischer, Jürgen Kriwet

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The contrasting origins of glauconite in the shallow marine environment highlight this mineral as a marker of paleoenvironmental conditions by Tribovillard, Nicolas, Bout-Roumazeilles, Viviane, Abraham, Romain, Ventalon, Sandra, Delattre, Marion, Baudin, François

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Carbon-isotope record of the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) Oceanic Anoxic Event from fossil wood and marine carbonate (Lusitanian Basin, Portugal) by Hesselbo, S, Jenkyns, H, Duarte, L, Oliveira, L

“…The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE) in the Early Jurassic (∼ 183 Ma ago) was characterized by widespread near-synchronous deposition of organic-rich shales in marine settings, as well as perturbations to several isotopic systems. …”

Late Jurassic Haobugao granites from the southern Great Xing’an Range, NE China: Implications for postcollision extension of the Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean by Li Jianda, Tian Yue, Cheng Yuqi

“…Geochemically, these Late Jurassic A2-type granites are similar to those from post-collision extension settings. …”
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Gas–Source Comparison and Hydrocarbon Generation and Expulsion Histories of the Main Source Rocks of the Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation, Western Sichuan Basin by Jiancheng Zeng, Yinhui Zuo, Ziyun Zheng, Jiazhen Zhang, Jiawang Ge, Linke Song, Yao Xiao, Xiaoming Zhao

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MIDDLE JURASSIC - EARLY CRETACEOUS INTEGRATED BIOSTRATIGRAPHY (AMMONITES, CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS AND CALPIONELLIDS) OF THE CONTRADA DIESI SECTION (SOUTH-WESTERN SICILY, ITALY) by MARIA CONCETTA MARINO, GLORIA ANDREINI, ANGELA BALDANZA, CAROLINA D'ARPA, NINO MARIOTTI, GIOVANNI PALLINI, GUIDO PARISI, FABIO MASSIMO PETTI

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Marine Strontium Isotope Evolution at the Triassic‐Jurassic Transition Links Transient Changes in Continental Weathering to Volcanism of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province by Bernát Heszler, Joachim Katchinoff, László Palcsu, Anikó Horváth, Zsolt Vallner, Emma Blanka Kovács, Noah Planavsky, József Pálfy

“…Aggregating the new data set with published records employing an astrochronological age model results in a highly resolved Sr isotope reference curve for an 8.5 Myr interval around the TJB.…”
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Impact of Diagenesis on the Low Permeability Sandstone Reservoir: Case Study of the Lower Jurassic Reservoir in the Niudong Area, Northern Margin of Qaidam Basin by Wenhuan Li, Tailiang Fan, Zhiqian Gao, Zhixiong Wu, Ya’nan Li, Xinlei Zhang, Heng Zhang, Fangda Cao

“…Reservoir porosity ranges from 0.01% to 19.5% (average of 9.9%), and permeability ranges from 0.01 to 32.4 mD (average of 3.8 mD). …”
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Suprasubduction ophiolite (SSZ) components in a middle to lower upper Jurassic Hallstatt Mélange in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Raucherschober/Schafkogel area) by Sebastian P. Drvoderic, Hans-Jürgen Gawlick, Hisashi Suzuki, Felix Schlagintweit

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Neck mobility in the Jurassic plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus: finite element analysis as a new approach to understanding the cervical skeleton in fossil vertebrates by Tanja Wintrich, René Jonas, Hans-Joachim Wilke, Lars Schmitz, P. Martin Sander

“…The maximum angle of ventral deflection was 5° and of dorsal deflection was 5°. When these values are multiplied by the number of cervical vertebrae, it becomes apparent that neck mobility was limited in all directions. …”
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Major advancement in oil and gas exploration of Jurassic channel sandstone in Well Bazhong 1HF in northern Sichuan Basin and its significance by Dongfeng Hu, Zhenxiang Li, Zhihong Wei, Jinbao Duan, Zhiwei Miao, Lei Pan, Chengyin Li, Hua Duan

“…In January 2023, Well Bazhong 1HF in the northern Sichuan Basin obtained high-yield industrial oil flow of over 100 cubic meters from the Jurassic channel sandstone for the first time, realizing a major breakthrough. …”
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Enrichment control factors and exploration potential of lacustrine shale oil and gas: A case study of Jurassic in the Fuling area of the Sichuan Basin by Dongfeng Hu, Zhihong Wei, Ruobing Liu, Xiangfeng Wei, Feiran Chen, Zhujiang Liu

“…Well Taiye 1 in the Fuling area of the eastern Sichuan Basin has obtained a high-yield industrial gas flow (7.5 × 104 m3/d gas and 9.8 m3/d oil) from the Middle Jurassic Lianggaoshan Formation, presenting a good test production effects, which means the realization of a major breakthrough in the exploration of Jurassic lacustrine shale oil and gas in the Sichuan Basin. …”
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Application of channel-belt scaling relationship to Middle Jurassic source-to-sink system in the Saishiteng area of the northern Qaidam Basin, NW China by Bing-Qiang Liu, Long-Yi Shao, Xue-Tian Wang, Ya-Nan Li, Jie Xu

“…Three palaeochannels, namely, River A, River B and River C, were identified which were persistent throughout the Dameigou and Shimengou Formations during the Middle Jurassic. The mean channel-belt thicknesses of River A, River B and River C in the Dameigou Formation were 9.8 m, 8.9 m and 7.9 m, respectively, and those in the Shimengou Formation were 7.4 m, 6.2 m and 5.4 m, respectively. …”
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NEW DATA ON THE EARLY JURASSIC BIODIVERSITY OF THE LOMBARDY BASIN (SOUTHERN ALPS, ITALY) AND THE EARLIEST RECORD <em>SPHENODUS</em> (CHONDRICHTHYES, NEOSELACHII) by LUCA JASELLI, CHRISTOPHER J. DUFFIN

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