While centrosaurines and ceratopsids in general are abundant in the Late Campanian of northern Laramidia, they are much less commonly found in southern Laramidia. This has supported hypotheses of dinosaur provinciality and endemism in the Late Cretaceous with the delineation of at least two separate faunal zones, north and south Laramidia. There have been 12 genera of centrosaurines recognized ...

The fossils assigned to the tetrapod stem group document the evolution of terrestrial vertebrates from lobe-finned fishes. During the past 15 years the phylogenetic structure of this stem group has remained remarkably stable, even when accommodating major new discoveries such as the elpistostegid Tiktaalik. Here we present a large tetrapodomorph fish from the Late Devonian of China that disrupt...

The Newark-APTS established a high-resolution framework for the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. Palaeomagnetic polarity correlations to marine sections show that stage-level correlations of continental sequences were off by as much as 10 million years. New U–Pb ages show the new correlations and the Newark basin astrochronology to be accurate. Correlation of Newark-APTS to the Chinle Formatio...

The Molteno, Elliot, and Clarens formations comprise the continental Stormberg Group of the Karoo Basin of South Africa and Lesotho. The Molteno Formation contains a well preserved macroand microfloral assemblage but apparently no vertebrates; the Elliot and Clarens formations contain abundant vertebrates but virtually no floral remains. The vertebrate taxa represented by skeletal remains are l...

Although continents were coalesced into the single landmass Pangea, Late Triassic terrestrial tetrapod assemblages are surprisingly provincial. In eastern North America, we show that assemblages dominated by traversodont cynodonts are restricted to a humid 6° equatorial swath that persisted for over 20 million years characterized by "semiprecessional" (approximately 10,000-y) climatic fluctuati...

Public Sphere The third kind of public sphere, named by Habermas as the “abstract public sphere”, is produced by media, which connects singular and globally spread readers, listeners and spectators (BFN, 1996: 308). In the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Habermas conceives the small press as an important institution for the conveyance of ideas and the establishment of the rationa...

The article examines the research of famous Ukrainian scientist Yuri Shevelov developing studies associations in period emigration after World War II, when novelists were united Аrt Movement (1945-1948). attention is focused on those meetings which have been arranged by and his confederates for unification different segments creative intelligentsia difficult conditions that caused from motherla...

The article discusses the problem of place affecting urban identity formation. granite-lined embankment Tura River becomes a factor in reassembling and forming new sensuousness for residents Tyumen. Tyumen has long oscillated between provinciality “village capital” nomadism “hub city”, serving as transit point to service oil gas industry. Nowadays, city perceive not only sign Tyumen’s integrati...

This paper draws on the generative literature in phonological acquisition, as well as on the work of phoneticians and psycholinguists, in an attempt to propose a unified view of the acquisition of phonological competence. We start with an examination of the Optimality Theoretic (OT) account of the well-known comprehension/production dilemma in child language presented in Smolensky (1996ab, henc...

Abstract The 143 Nd/ 144 Nd isotopic composition of foraminifera represents one the most prominent palaeoceanographic proxies enabling tracing particular water masses due to short residence time in seawater and large‐scale provinciality resulting from its lithogenic origin. Despite wide use, applicability foraminiferal systematics as a tracer is largely hampered by amount material needed for pr...