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The Age of Dinosaurs in the Land of Gonds
The fossil record of dinosaursDinosauria/Dinosaurs from India provides a highly significant contribution to understanding the origin and...
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Tibetan Plateau: An evolutionary junction for the history of modern biodiversity
Holding particular biological resources, the Tibetan Plateau is a unique geologic-geographic-biotic interactively unite and hence play an important...
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On the taxonomy and osteology of the Early Eocene North American Geranoididae (Aves, Gruoidea)
Whereas our knowledge of small arboreal Paleogene birds has greatly increased in the past years, that of the larger birds coexisting with them is far...
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The first mitogenome of the Nile pufferfish Tetraodon lineatus from Lake Turkana in East Africa: new insights into the genus
A complete mitogenome of T. lineatus from Lake Turkana in the Kenyan part was determined. It had a length of 16 470 bp, including 37 genes as found...
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Mobility patterns in inland southwestern Sweden during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
In this paper, we investigate population dynamics in the Scandinavian Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in southwestern Sweden. Human mobility patterns...
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Fossil lizards and worm lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: an overview
Lizards were and still are an important component of the European herpetofauna. The modern European lizard fauna started to set up in the Miocene and...
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Transient presence of a teiid lizard in the European Eocene suggests transatlantic dispersal and rapid extinction
Several teiid specimens (frontal, vertebra, maxillae) are described from the late Eocene of Europe (MP17, Phosphorites du Quercy). The results of...
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Craniology of the Plesiosaur Abyssosaurus nataliae Berezin (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Central Russian Platform
Cranial bones of the plesiosaurus Abyssosaurus nataliae Berezin, 2011 from the Upper Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of Chuvashia are described. It...
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The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America
Anurans, along with urodeles and caecilians are the extant representatives of the clade Lissamphibia. Nowadays, lissamphibians are widely distributed...
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The evolution of ornithischian quadrupedality
Ornithischian dinosaurs were primitively bipedal, but reverted to quadrupedality on at least three (and potentially several more) occasions: in...
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First arboreal 'pelycosaurs' (Synapsida: Varanopidae) from the early Permian Chemnitz Fossil Lagerstätte, SE Germany, with a review of varanopid phylogeny
A new fossil amniote from the Fossil Forest of Chemnitz (Sakmarian-Artinskian transition, Germany) is described as Ascendonanus nestleri gen. et sp....
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Edaphosauridae (Synapsida, Eupelycosauria) from Europe and their relationship to North American representatives
A recent discovery from the Carboniferous–Permian transition of the southwest German Saar–Nahe Basin has revealed a medium-sized edaphosaurid...
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Neogene Deep-sea Smelts (Argentiniformes: Microstomatidae) from the Far East Russia
Deep-sea smelts (Argentiniformes: Microstomatidae, Bathylaginae) from the Miocene of Far East Russia (Sakhalin and Urup islands) are described. The...
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Fish, amphibian and reptilian faunas from latest Oligocene to middle Miocene localities from Central Turkey
In this paper, we describe ectothermic vertebrate assemblages from the Kargı 1, Kargı 2, Kargı 3, Harami1, Harami 3, Hancılı, Keseköy, Çandır and...
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Sorting the sheep from the goats in the Pastoral Neolithic: morphological and biomolecular approaches at Luxmanda, Tanzania
Large-scale reconstructions of the spread of food production systems require fine-scale analyses of dietary evidence. One current impediment to...
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Late Miocene rails (Aves: Rallidae) from southwestern Russia
The Miocene was an important period for the assembly of present-day avian faunas of the North Temperate Zone. Details of this process, however,...
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Integrating isotopes and documentary evidence: dietary patterns in a late medieval and early modern mining community, Sweden
This study explores the relationship between dietary patterns and social structure in a pre-industrial mining community in Salberget, Sweden c. 1470...
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The world’s smallest owl, the earliest unambiguous charadriiform bird, and other avian remains from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Virginia (USA)
New avian remains from the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation in Virginia (USA) are described. The material stems from the Fisher/Sullivan site and...
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A review of vertebrate body fossils from the Korean Peninsula and perspectives
For the first time, a comprehensive review was presented for all Korean vertebrate body fossils reported during last 100 years. At present, Korean...
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A new record of ponyfish Deveximentum megalolepis (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) in Beibu Gulf of China
A new record ponyfish, Deveximentum megalolepis Mochizuki and Hayashi, 1989, was documented based on its morphological characteristics and DNA...
