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A pliosaurid plesiosaurian from the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation of Italy

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Cau A., Fanti F.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2014

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tom 59

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nr 3

Plesiosauria is a clade of medium to large bodied marine reptiles with a cosmopolitan distribution ranging from the latest Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous. In Europe, the fossil record of Plesiosauria is mainly known from the Northern latitudes, whereas it is much rarer from the Southern and Mediterranean areas. Here, we report the first articulated skeleton of an Italian plesiosaurian, from the Callovian–Oxfordian deposits of the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation of Kaberlaba (Veneto). The specimen is referred to Pliosauridae based on the large size of the skull, compared to the appendicular skeleton, the presence of the lacrimal, and a distinct anterolateral projection of the prefrontal into the orbital margin. Mandibular and vertebral symplesiomorphies support the placement of the Italian taxon among the “gracile-longirostrine grade” of basal pliosaurids. The Kaberlaba plesiosaurian represents the second reptile clade recovered from the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation, after Thalattosuchia.

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Use of Lebanese amber inclusions in paleoenvironmental reconstruction, dating and paleobiogeography

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Azar D., Nel A., Geze R.

Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia

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2003

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tom 46

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nr Suppl.

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Paleobiogeography of turrid gastropods in the Pliocene of Catalonia

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Gili C., Martinell J.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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1993

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tom 38

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nr 3-4

The distribution of the Turridae in the Pliocene of Catalonia (NE Spain) is heterogeneous. It appears to be determined to a greater extent by the particular autoecological traits of each species than by more general environmental factors. The area formed by the Pla de Barcelona and the Baix Llobregat may be regarded as a bio-geographical unit due to turrid species, which do not occur in other basins. The turrid distribution in the Alt Empordà basin manifests a high degree of environmental diversity among the different outcrops of the area, thus confirming the earlier provided taphonomic and biogeographic data. Species of the Turridae from Poble de Siurana (Alt Empordà) are also present in different parts of the Pla de Barcelona and Baix Llobregat areas. This indicates the existence of similar ecological enclaves in both basins, within a quite different general context.

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Ordovician rafinesquinine brachiopods from peri-Gondwana

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Colmenar J.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2016

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tom 61

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nr 2

The study of the strophomenide brachiopods of the subfamily Rafinesquininae present in the main Upper Ordovician sections, representing the Mediterranean margin of Gondwana, has revealed an increase in diversity of the group at the region during that time. The studied collections are from the Moroccan Anti-Atlas, the Iberian and the Armorican massifs, the Iberian Chains, Pyrenees, Montagne Noire, Sardinia, and Bohemia. Two genera of the subfamily Rafinesquininae have been recorded. Of them, the cosmopolitan Rafinesquina is the only one previously reported from the region and Kjaerina is found for the first time outside Avalonia, Baltica, and Laurentia. Additionally, two new subgenera have been described, Kjaerina (Villasina) and Rafinesquina (Mesogeina). Furthermore, the new species Rafinesquina (Mesogeina) gabianensis, Rafinesquina (Mesogeina) loredensis, Kjaerina (Kjaerina) gondwanensis, Kjaerina (Villasina) pedronaensis, Kjaerina (Villasina) pyrenaica, and Kjaerina (Villasina) meloui have been described. In addition, other species of these genera previously known from isolated localities in the region, such as Rafinesquina pseudoloricata, Rafinesquina pomoides, and Hedstroemina almadenensis are revised and their geographic range expanded. The adaptive radiation experienced by the rafinesquinines at the Mediterranean region during middle to late Katian, was probably related to changes in the regime of sedimentation and water temperature caused by the global warming Boda event.

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Geological exploration of Cockburn Island, Antarctic Peninsula

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Stilwell J. D.

Polish Polar Research

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2002

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tom 23

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nr 1

47-73

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Terminal Maastrichtian ammonites from Turkmenistan, Central Asia

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Machalski M., Jagt J. W. M., Alekseev A. S., Jagt-Yazykova E. A.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2012

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tom 57

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nr 4

A complete uppermost Maastrichtian–Danian succession in the Sumbar River section, western Kopet Dagh (southwest Turkmenistan, Central Asia), constitutes one of the few instances in the world where the fossil record of the last ammonites can be directly positioned with respect to the iridium−rich, impact−related clay layer, which defines the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary. Two ammonite taxa, Baculites cf. vertebralis and Hoploscaphites constrictus johnjagti, range up to a level directly beneath the K–Pg boundary clay in the Sumbar River section. Thus, these two forms probably survived until the very end of the Maastrichtian in the western Kopet Dagh area. The terminal Maastrichtian ammonite records from the Sumbar River area represent the southeasternmost occurrences of these essentially Boreal taxa.

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The Jurassic pleurotomarioidean gastropod Laevitomaria and its palaeobiogeographical history

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Gatto R., Monari S., Szabo J., Conti M. A.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2015

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tom 60

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nr 1

The genus Laevitomaria is reviewed and its palaeobiogeographical history is reconstructed based on the re-examination of its type species L. problematica, the study of material stored at the National Natural History Museum of Luxembourg, and an extensive review of the literature. The systematic study allows ascribing to Laevitomaria a number of Jurassic species from the western European region formerly included in other pleurotomariid genera. The following new combinations are proposed: Laevitomaria allionta, L. amyntas, L. angulba, L. asurai, L. daityai, L. fasciata, L. gyroplata, L. isarensis, L. joannis, L. repeliniana, L. stoddarti, L. subplatyspira, and L. zonata. The genus, which was once considered as endemic of the central part of the western Tethys, shows an evolutionary and palaeogeographical history considerably more complex than previously assumed. It first appeared in the Late Sinemurian in the northern belt of the central western Tethys involved in the Neotethyan rifting, where it experienced a first radiation followed by an abrupt decline of diversity in the Toarcian. Species diversity increased again during Toarcian–Aalenian times in the southernmost part of western European shelf and a major radiation occurred during the Middle Aalenian to Early Bajocian in the northern Paris Basin and southern England. After a latest Bajocian collapse of diversity, Laevitomaria disappeared from both the central part of western Tethys and the European shelf. In the Bathonian, the genus appeared in the south-eastern margin of the Tethys where it lasted until the Oxfordian.

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On the presence of a pustulated temnospondyl in the Lower Triassic of southern Brazil

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Dias-da-Silva S., Ramos Ilha A. L.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2009

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tom 54

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nr 4

The fossil record of temnospondyls in South America has been greatly expanded in the last 10 years, increasing their overall significance. They occur in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, and range from the Guadalupian to the Late Triassic. The Early Triassic temnospondyl record in southern Brazil is mainly composed of fragmentary specimens, usually represented by dermal skull bones from the Sanga do Cabral Formation. Some of these fragments were tentatively referred to Lydekkerinidae and Rhytidosteidae based on their characteristic ridge−grooved “spider−web” pattern of ornamentation. In this contribution we report, for the first time, a temnospondyl skull fragment with pustulated sculpturing pattern, which is tentatively ascribed to Plagiosauridae. This new record could indicate the presence of a new temnospondyl taxon for the Lower Triassic of South America.

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Alpha taxonomy of the Russian Permian procolophonoid reptiles

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Saila L. K.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2009

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tom 54

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nr 4

European Russia has been the source of many procolophonoid taxa from both the Permian and Triassic, and a Permian origin for the procolophonoid family Procolophonidae has been based on the Russian taxon Microphon exiguus. Recently, this taxon was reclassified as a seymouriamorph and, in its place, the taxa Nyctiphruretus, Suchonosaurus, and Kinelia from the Middle and Upper Permian of Russia were suggested as “procolophons”, using evolutionary−systematic classification methods. In recent phylogenies, however, Nyctiphruretus has been recovered as a non–procolophonoid parareptile, whereas Kinelia and Suchonosaurus have never been included in a phylogenetic study. Re−examination indicates that Suchonosaurus is a member of the procolophonoid subfamily Procolophonidae based on the shape of the maxillary bone and the external naris, the laterally visible maxillary depression, and the number and type of maxillary teeth. Kinelia, on the other hand, is excluded from the Procolophonoidea because of its subpleurodont dental attachment and lack of any procolophonoid features. Thus, Suchonosaurus is the only confirmed Permian procolophonid from the Permian of Russia. Additionally, re−examination of the holotype of Microphon exiguus confirms that it is identical to the seymouriamorph specimens recently included in the genus Microphon and that it lacks procolophonoid features. The earliest unequivocal record of the subfamily Procolophonidae is confirmed from the Late Permian of Russia, making Russia the only region where, with certainty, both Permian and Triassic procolophonids have been discovered.

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The platacanthomyine rodent Neocometes from the Miocene of South Korea and its paleobiogeographical implications

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Lee Y.-N., Jacobs L. L.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2010

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tom 55

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nr 4

A left first lower molar of Neocometes from the Bukpyeong Formation, South Korea is more similar to Neocometes similis and Neocometes cf. similis from Europe than to Neocometes orientalis from Thailand, and is therefore referred to Neocometes aff.similis. The new discovery of Neocometesis important in that it is the first evidence in Asia to show close faunal affinity to European Neocometes. It is also of paleobiogeographic significance for the subfamily Platacanthomyinae, because it represents the easternmost occurrence of this subfamily in Eurasia, implying there was continuous gene flow between the Neocometes populations of eastern Asia and western Europe. The paleoclimatic interpretation for the Bukpyeong Formation based on the palynomorphs implies that Neocometes had wider climatic tolerances than either of the two extant platacanthomyine genera. The evolutionary stage of Korean Neocometesis comparable to material from European localities correlated with MN 4 and MN 5, which constrains the age of the Bukpyeong Formation to between 18 and 15.2 Mya.

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The oldest African eucryptodiran turtle from the Cretaceous of Angola

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Mateus O., Jacobs L., Polcyn M., Schulp A. S., Vineyard D., Buta Neto A., Antunes M. T.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2009

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tom 54

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nr 4

A new Late Cretaceous turtle, Angolachelys mbaxi gen. et sp. nov., from the Turonian (90 Mya) of Angola, represents the oldest eucryptodire from Africa. Phylogenetic analysis recovers Angolachelys mbaxi as the sister taxon of Sandownia harrisi from the Aptian of Isle of Wight, England. An unnamed turtle from the Albian Glen Rose Formation of Texas (USA) and the Kimmeridgian turtle Solnhofia parsonsi (Germany), are successively more distant sister taxa. Bootstrap analysis suggests those four taxa together form a previously unrecognized monophyletic clade of marine turtles, herein named Angolachelonia clade nov., supported by the following synapomorphies: mandibular articulation of quadrate aligned with or posterior to the occiput, and basisphenoid not visible or visibility greatly reduced in ventral view. Basal eucryptodires and angolachelonians originated in the northern hemisphere, thus Angolachelys represents one of the first marine amniote lineages to have invaded the South Atlantic after separation of Africa and South America.

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Givetian (Middle Devonian) sharks from Cairo, New York (USA): Evidence of early cosmopolitanism

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Potvin-Leduc D., Cloutier R., Landing E., Hernick L. V., Mannolini F.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2015

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tom 60

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nr 1

Whereas cosmopolitan distribution patterns are established for many Late Devonian vertebrates (e.g., placoderms, onychodontiforms), few palaeobiogeographic studies have considered chondrichthyans. Recent discoveries of shark material demonstrate that some chondrichthyans were cosmopolitan by the Middle Devonian. Abundant Givetian microremains have been recovered from the Cairo quarry in eastern New York State, USA. These include teeth of two shark species with Gondwanan affinities, the omalodontid Portalodus mannoliniae sp. nov. and the antarctilamnid Wellerodus priscus. Abundant teeth of P. mannoliniae sp. nov. are characterized by a smooth diplodont crown, polarized cusps, and a labially oriented base. The teeth demonstrate monognathic heterodonty. The juvenile morph is distinguished from the adult by smaller size, slender cusps, and variation in the shape of the base. W. priscus is represented by rare juvenile teeth. Two groups of scales that show affinity to material from northern (Spain) and East Gondwana (Antarctica) are tentatively attributed to the two described species. Antarctilamnid distribution suggests a north Gondwanan origin and a colonization of the margin of the landmass before dispersing to Laurentia by the Middle Devonian. This material further indicates that vertebrate global dispersal was initiated by the Middle Devonian, and emphasizes earlier palaeogeographic interpretations that the Middle Devonian “Hamilton fauna” of North American Laurussia originated in the Early Devonian in South American Gondwana.

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Palaeobiogeographic and evolutionary meaning of an early Late Tournaisian ammonoid fauna from the Tafilalt of Morocco

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Korn D., Bockwinkel J., Ebbighausen V., Klug C.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2003

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tom 48

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nr 1

An early Late Tournaisian (Early Carboniferous/Mississippian) ammonoid fauna is described from the Tafilalt of south−eastern Morocco. Twelve genera, four of which are new, and eleven new species are represented: Becanites africanus sp. nov., Triimitoceras epiwocklumeriforme gen. et sp. nov., Irinoceras minutum sp. nov., Muensteroceras quadriconstrictum sp. nov., Eurites bouhamedensis sp. nov., Ouaoufilalites ouaoufilalensis gen. et sp. nov., Helicocyclus fuscus sp. nov., Pericyclus mercatorius sp. nov., Orthocyclus(?) sp., Bouhamedites enigmaticus gen. et sp. nov., Winchelloceras antiatlanteum sp. nov., and Progoniatites maghribensis gen. et sp. nov. Palaeogeographic analysis of Late Tournaisian ammonoid assemblages shows strong endemism at the species−level, but genera and families had a nearly global distribution in the equatorial seas. The new fauna contains the stratigraphically oldest known representatives of the important Carboniferous goniatite families Girtyoceratidae and Goniatitidae.

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Phylogenetic position of the crocodylian Megadontosuchus arduini and tomistomine palaeobiogeography

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Piras P., Delfino M., Del Favero L., Kotsakis T.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2007

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tom 52

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nr 2

A cladistic analysis of Megadontosuchus arduini from the middle Eocene of Monte Duello (NE Italy) confirms its tomistomine relationships, but the low number of scorable characters determines a low resolution within the tomistomine clade. However, Megadontosuchus is clearly distinct from the other Eocene European or North African tomistomines, in having a moderate elongated but robust rostrum, massive maxillary and dentary teeth and large supratemporal fenestrae. The rostrum and teeth characteristics could indicate that M. arduini had a degree of feeding specialization intermediate between Maroccosuchus zennaroi and the Eocene European tomistomines. A summary of tomistomine palaeobiogeography suggests that despite only one species with a rather restricted range survives at present, such a clade had a glorious past with a world wide distribution documented by a conspicuous fossil record that starts at least in the early Eocene. At present, a detailed knowledge of tomistomine palaeobiogeography is hindered by the lack of modern taxonomic revisions of some fossil remains and therefore by the poor understanding of phylogenetic relationships.

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New lizards and rhynchocephalians from the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Italy

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Evans S. E., Raia P., Barbera C.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2004

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tom 49

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nr 3

The Lower Cretaceous (Albian age) locality of Pietraroia, near Benevento in southern Italy, has yielded a diverse assemblage of fossil vertebrates, including at least one genus of rhynchocephalian (Derasmosaurus) and two named lizards (Costasaurus and Chometokadmon), as well as the exquisitely preserved small dinosaur, Scipionyx. Here we describe material pertaining to a new species of the fossil lizard genus Eichstaettisaurus (E. gouldi sp. nov.). Eichstaettisaurus was first recorded from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian age) Solnhofen Limestones of Germany, and more recently from the basal Cretaceous (Berriasian) of Montsec, Spain. The new Italian specimen provides a significant extension to the temporal range of Eichstaettisaurus while supporting the hypothesis that the Pietraroia assemblage may represent a relictual island fauna. The postcranial morphology of the new eichstaettisaur suggests it was predominantly ground−living. Further skull material of E. gouldi sp. nov. was identified within the abdominal cavity of a second new lepidosaurian skeleton from the same locality. This second partial skeleton is almost certainly rhynchocephalian, based primarily on foot and pelvic structure, but it is not Derasmosaurus and cannot be accommodated within any known genus due to the unusual morphology of the tail vertebrae.

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New lissamphibians and squamates from the Maastrichtian of Hateg Basin, Romania

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Folie A., Codrea V.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2005

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tom 50

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nr 1

Numerous remains of amphibians and squamates were discovered in the continental sediments of the Maastrichtian Sânpetru Formation, south of Pui Village (Haţeg Basin, western Romania). The lissamphibians are represented by a salamander−like allocaudatan (Albanerpeton sp.) and at least two discoglossid frogs (cf. Eodiscoglossussp. and cf. Paradiscoglossussp.). The numerous lizards are represented by, e.g., the teiid Bicuspidon hatzegiensissp. nov., and for the first time in a Late Cretaceous site, by two species of the paramacellodid Becklesius (Becklesius nopcsai sp. nov. and Becklesius cf. B. hoffstetteri). Snakes are also present in this site by an indeterminante madtsoiid, which represents the first occurrence of this family in eastern Europe. The presence of Albanerpeton in this site confirms that this genus appeared in Europe by at least the Late Cretaceous instead of Miocene as previously thought. The presence of both Albanerpeton and Bicuspidon in Haţeg Basin suggests a North American influence on eastern European amphibian and lacertilian faunas by Maastrichtian times.

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Rodent faunas, chronostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of the southern Levant during the Quaternary

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Tchernov E.

Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia

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1996

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tom 39

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nr 1

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Marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

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Averianov A., Kielan-Jaworowska Z.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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1999

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tom 44

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nr 1

A fragment of dentary with m4, showing characters of some Late Cretaceous North American marsupials, is assigned to Marsasia sp. Marsasia Nessov, 1997 from the Coniacian of Uzbekistan, represented by M. aenigma known from edentulous dentaries with inflected angular processes, was attributed by Nessov to ?Marsupialia. Marsasia sp., found in the same horizon as the type species, resembles it in size and structure of the masseteric fossa, but dffiers in having a less steep coronoid process. We assign Marsasia to Marsupialia on the basis of the following characters: inflected angular process, shape of the dentary similar to that in Asiatherium, postcanine dental formula, inferred from alveoli for p1-3, ml-4, and sfructure of m4 more similar to Cretaceous marsupials than eutherians. The phylogenetic position of Marsasia may be between the Albian Kokopellia and Campanian Asiatherium. Marsasia is tentatively referred to the orderAsiadelphia, which may represent an endemic Asian marsupial clade.

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Insect from the Lower Toarcian of Middle Europe and England

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Ansorge J.

Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia

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2003

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tom 46

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nr Suppl.

Amphiesmenopterans are represented in the Lower Toarcian marine insect taphocoenoses of Germany by stem group members (Necrotaulius HANDLIRSCH, 1906, Mesotrichopteridium HANDLIRSCH, 1906). Female terminalia of Necrotaulius resembling the ovipositor indicate that these insects laid their eggs rather in soil than in water. One species of genuine Trichoptera (Liadotaulius HANDLIRSCH, 1939) exhibited sexual dimorphism. At least two species of Lepidoptera related to Micropterygidae were found.

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First palaeanodont [?pholidotan] mammal from the Eocene of Europe

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Gheerbrant E., Rose K. D., Godinot M.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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2005

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tom 50

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nr 2

We report the discovery in the early Eocene French locality of Le Quesnoy (MP7, Neustrian) of the first palaeanodont from the Eocene of Europe, and the first metacheiromyid from outside of western North America. The species, known from a dentary and a few postcranial bones, belongs to the genus Palaeanodon, and it is one of several North American immigrant taxa that characterize the Paleocene–Eocene faunal turnover in Europe. Palaeanodon sp. from Le Quesnoy is close in size to P. nievelti from the early Wasatchian of North America. However, it shows noticeable primitive features such as a more prominent ventral keel on the metacarpal III and a probably elongated and bilobed pc4 (= p4), although this is inferred from the infilled alveolus. Additional original features are also noticed on the tentatively referred astragalus. These minor differences suggest that the Le Quesnoy form represents a new species, but the available material remains inadequate to name it. The morphology and the size of the metacarpal are actually closer to P. parvulus (Clarkforkian)—P. nievelti (Wasatchian) intermediates, suggesting a sister−group relationship with the latter (if Palaeanodon sp. from Le Quesnoy is not shown to belong to a distinct European lineage). This would indicate a dispersal at least as old as P. nievielti and a correlation of Le Quesnoy not later than early Wasatchian. The discovery of Palaeanodon in Le Quesnoy fits paleobiogeographically well with the hypothesis of a relationship of palaeanodonts to pholidotans, which have their earliest record in the middle Eocene of Europe (Messel).

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A pliosaurid plesiosaurian from the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation of Italy

Use of Lebanese amber inclusions in paleoenvironmental reconstruction, dating and paleobiogeography

Paleobiogeography of turrid gastropods in the Pliocene of Catalonia

Ordovician rafinesquinine brachiopods from peri-Gondwana

Geological exploration of Cockburn Island, Antarctic Peninsula

Terminal Maastrichtian ammonites from Turkmenistan, Central Asia

The Jurassic pleurotomarioidean gastropod Laevitomaria and its palaeobiogeographical history

On the presence of a pustulated temnospondyl in the Lower Triassic of southern Brazil

Alpha taxonomy of the Russian Permian procolophonoid reptiles

The platacanthomyine rodent Neocometes from the Miocene of South Korea and its paleobiogeographical implications

The oldest African eucryptodiran turtle from the Cretaceous of Angola

Givetian (Middle Devonian) sharks from Cairo, New York (USA): Evidence of early cosmopolitanism

Palaeobiogeographic and evolutionary meaning of an early Late Tournaisian ammonoid fauna from the Tafilalt of Morocco

Phylogenetic position of the crocodylian Megadontosuchus arduini and tomistomine palaeobiogeography

New lizards and rhynchocephalians from the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Italy

New lissamphibians and squamates from the Maastrichtian of Hateg Basin, Romania

Rodent faunas, chronostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of the southern Levant during the Quaternary

Marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan

Insect from the Lower Toarcian of Middle Europe and England

First palaeanodont [?pholidotan] mammal from the Eocene of Europe