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✧ Proceratosaurus ✧

Proceratosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic in what is now England. The holotype and only known specimen (pictured) consists of a mostly complete skull with an accompanying lower jaw and a hyoid bone, found near Minchinhampton, a town in Gloucestershire. It was originally d...

#MiddleJurassic #England #Ceratosaurus #WesternEurope #Megalosaurus #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceratosaurus

Charring Auh Oct 22, 2024

#Pseudogarantiana is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil #cephalopods, the ammonites. It lived during the #MiddleJurassic.

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Dec 13, 2022

Study of #fossil katydids provides new insights into the evolution of the Mesozoic soundscape
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-fossil-katydids-insights-evolution-mesozoic.html

High acoustic diversity and behavioral complexity of #katydids in the #Mesozoic #soundscape https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210601119

"The newly found #TympanalEars in prophalangopsid katydids from the Middle #Jurassic represent the earliest-known #insect #ears, extending the age range of the modern-type auditory tympana by 100 million years to the #MiddleJurassic, some 160 million years ago"

Study of fossil katydids provides new insights into the evolution of the Mesozoic soundscape

Acoustic communication has played a key role in the evolution of animals—especially vertebrates and insects—ranging from mating to warning calls and even social learning. The reconstruction of ancient acoustic signals is challenging, however, due to the extreme rarity of fossilized organs.

Phys.org