Portal:Paleontology/On this day/April 9

April 9:

• 1914 - Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov was born in Vyshny Volochyok, Russia.
• 1940 - Jaroslav Kraft was born.
• 1956 - Michael Benton was born in Scotland.

Scales and Dermal Skeletal Histology of an Early Bony Fish Psarolepis romeri and Their Bearing on the Evolution of Rhombic Scales and Hard Tissues

Qingming Qu, Min Zhu, Wei Wang

published 09 Apr 2013

A Carapace-Like Bony ‘Body Tube’ in an Early Triassic Marine Reptile and the Onset of Marine Tetrapod Predation

Xiao-hong Chen, Ryosuke Motani, Long Cheng, Da-yong Jiang, Olivier Rieppel

published 09 Apr 2014