A new Eocene genus of the subtribe Tylodina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and notes concerning local differences of Baltic amber in the Kaliningrad Region [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2020 Based on a well-preserved specimen from Eocene Baltic amber, a new weevil – Baltacalles triumurbium gen. et sp. nov. – is described and illustrated.
A. Bukejs +4 more
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An alternative interpretation of Peltochelys duchastelii as a paracryptodire [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2020 Peltochelys duchastelii is an enigmatic turtle from Early Cretaceous (middle Barremian–early Aptian) Sainte-Barbe Formation of Bernissart, Belgium. In more recent literature, there has been strong support for the trionychian affinities of this taxon, but
W. G. Joyce, Y. Rollot
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A new fossil species of Attagenus Latreille (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) in Rovno and Baltic ambers, with a brief review of known fossil beetles from the Rovno amber Lagerstätte [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2020 Based on two specimens originating from Eocene Rovno and Baltic ambers, Attagenus (Aethriostoma) gedanicissimus sp. nov. is described, illustrated and compared with the related fossil Mesozoic species A.
A. Bukejs +4 more
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A life devoted to fossil vertebrates and the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin – Wolf-Dieter Heinrich: contributions to palaeontology [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2007 No abstract available for this article.
L. C. Maul +4 more
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Prospects for an upper Givetian substage [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2001 New ammonoid and conodont data from Germany, the Montagne Noire (France) and southeastern Morocco document a complex sequence of sedimentary events and faunal changes within an extended Givetian (late Middle Devonian) Taghanic Event Interval or Taghanic ...
Z. S. Aboussalam, R. T. Becker
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A key for the description of Palaeozoic ammonoids [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2010 A key for the description of Palaeozoic ammonoids is presented. It contains a catalogue of descriptive terms to characterise conch morphology, ornament, and suture line particularly of Carboniferous ammonoids.
D. Korn
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A simulated bird gastric mill and its implications for fossil gastrolith authenticity [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2009 A rock tumbler, stones, water, plant material, hydrochloric acid, and pepsin were used to simulate a bird gizzard in order to study abrasion rate and influence of stomach juices and foodstuff on gastrolith surface development.
O. Wings
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The largest specimen of Apateon and the life history pathway of neoteny in the Paleozoic temnospondyl family Branchiosauridae [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2009 Two distinct developmental trajectories, metamorphosis and neoteny (the retention of larval somatic features in adult animals), have been reported for the small gill-bearing branchiosaurids of the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian of central Europe ...
N. B. Fröbisch, R. R. Schoch
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Stratigraphic significance of carbon isotope variations in the shallow-marine Seis/Siusi Permian–Triassic boundary section (Southern Alps, Italy) [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2009 Carbonate carbon-isotope values from the Permian–Triassic (P–T) boundary section at Seis/Siusi (Southern Alps, Italy) show a trend similar to that in numerous other P–T boundary sections worldwide.
S. H. Kraus +4 more
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An alternative interpretation of small-bodied turtles from the “Middle Purbeck” of England as a new species of compsemydid turtle [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2022 A series of small-sized fossil turtles were collected from Beckles’ Pit, Durlston Bay, Dorset, United Kingdom in 1856 from a sediment package referable to the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Group.
Walter G. Joyce +3 more
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