Climate-driven diversity changes of Mediterranean echinoids over the last 6 Ma [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 Echinoids represent an important component of the Cenozoic marine benthic communities. Their diversity in the Mediterranean area is reviewed within the Late Miocene–Recent, a period of remarkable paleogeographic and paleoclimate changes.
ENRICO BORGHI, VITTORIO GARILLI
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De la paléontologie du xixe siècle à l’archéozoologie du xxe siècle
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2012 Large mammal fossil bones have been highly considered during debates about the Antiquity of Man. At early XIXth century, scholars looked for evidence of contemporaneity between knapped tools and extinct animals.
Marylène Patou-Mathis
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Brachiopod fauna from uppermost Visean (Mississippian) mud mounds in Derbyshire, UK [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 The systematic study of a brachiopod fauna collected from a Brigantian, uppermost Visean, Mississippian, mud mound complex on the Derbyshire Carbonate Platform (England, United Kingdom) recognises 45 species, representing 36 genera and seven orders ...
ALESSANDRO P. CARNITI +4 more
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Rate of lineage origin explains the diversity anomaly in the World’s mangrove vegetation [PDF]
, 2006 The contribution of nonecological factors to global patterns in diversity is evident when species richness differs between regions with similar habitats and geographic area. Mangrove environments in the Eastern Hemisphere harbor six times as many species
Renner, Susanne S. +2 more
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A new pentatomoid bug from the Ypresian of Patagonia, Argentina [PDF]
, 2016 A new pentatomoid heteropteran, Chinchekoala qunita gen. et sp. nov. is described from the lower Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, Patagonia, Argentina. The new genus is mainly characterised by cephalic characters such as the mandibular plates surpassing the ...
Petrulevicius, Julian Fernando
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Evaluating the utility of linear measurements to identify isolated tooth loci of extinct Hyracoidea [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaSerially homologous elements pose an identification problem in fragmentary records, particularly those of vertebrate fossils. Examples include individual vertebrae in the vertebral column and teeth in a tooth row.
NATASHA S. VITEK +1 more
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New finds of Olenekian, Early Triassic, trematosaurid amphibians and prolocophonid reptiles from Poland [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaThe continental Lower Triassic (Middle Buntsandstein) siliciclastic deposits exposed along the margins of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, yield locally abundant vertebrate footprints and bones.
TOMASZ SULEJ +2 more
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Nature, 1966 Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man By Kenneth P. Oakley. Second edition. Pp. x + 355. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966.) 45s. net.
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Small mammal fauna from Wulanhuxiu (Nei Mongol, China) implies the Irdinmanhan–Sharamurunian (Eocene) faunal turnover [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 Wulanhuxiu, a middle Eocene locality in the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol (China) has been commonly regarded as belonging to the Ulan Shireh Formation, equated with the Irdin Manha Formation.
Qian Li +2 more
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A new Beneziphius beaked whale from the ocean floor off Galicia, Spain and biostratigraphic reassessment of the type species [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017 Although the fossil record of beaked whales (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) is continuously improving, the geological age of new taxa is often poorly constrained.
Ismael Miján +2 more
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