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Phenological analysis of the Last Glacial vertebrates from the territory of Moravia (the Czech Republic) – Continuity and change in faunistic communities

Rudolf Musil

Due to the vertical zonality of the studied area, its environment varied greatly over a relatively short distance within the same time span. It is possible to distinguish the following different types of environment: (1) Alluvial ﬂoodplains around larger water ﬂows. I assume in the Last Glacial…

A practical and historical perspective on the how and why of whitening fossil specimens and casts as a precursor to their photography

Ronald L. Parsley, Mary H. Lawson, †John Pojeta , Jr.

Whitening fossils and casts to enhance photographic detail has evolved from the early twentieth century in step with advances in photography in both film and digital technologies. Whitening began with clouds of NH4OH and HCl being blown together to form a fine white coating of NH4Cl. The wet method…

Actinopterygians of the Permian locality Buxières-les-Mines (Bourbon-l’Archambault Basin, France) and their relationship to other early actinopterygians

Stanislav Štamberg

Actinopterygians from the large opencast coal mine in the vicinity of the village of Buxières-les-Mines (Bourbonl’Archambault Basin, Allier, France) are revisited and redescribed based on newly studied specimens. The understanding of the anatomy of Progyrolepis heyleri POPLIN, 1999, originally…

Review of the late Oligocene flora of Matrý near Sebuzín (České středohoří Mts., the Czech Republic)

Zlatko Kvaček, Vasilis Teodoridis, Miroslav Radoň

The Oligocene palaeontological locality on Matrý Hill near Sebuzín in the České středohoří Mts., North Bohemia, belongs to the Děčín Formation and is dated to 30.8–24.7 Ma according to the regional stratigraphy. It has yielded, in addition to insects from the Heteroptera group, a fossil bee Apis…

Some conifers from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian – early Albian) of Catefica, Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal

Mário Miguel Mendes, Pedro Dinis, Jiří Kvaček

Several mesofossil ﬂoras discovered in the Early Cretaceous rocks from the Lusitanian Basin of western Portugal comprise numerous well-preserved conifer remains. Here we report the occurrence of four conifer types in the mesofossil ﬂora from the Cateﬁca locality, about 4 km south of Torres Vedras in…

Plant diversity of the mid Silurian (lower Wenlock, Sheinwoodian) terrestrial vegetation preserved in marine sediments from the Barrandian area, the Czech Republic

Milan Libertín , Jiří Kvaček, Jiří Bek, Petr Štorch

Plant mega- and microfossils are described from the middle Sheinwoodian of the Barrandian area. The material comes from the Loděnice locality and the same horizon as the earliest unequivocal land plant, Cooksonia barrandei LIBERTÍN, J.KVAČEK, BEK, ŽÁRSKÝ et ŠTORCH. Its age (432 Myr) is inferred from…

Epidermal anatomy of Glyptostrobus europaeus (BRONGN.) UNGER from the Late Oligocene of the Westerwald (Rhineland-Palatinate, W-Germany)

Dieter Uhl, Pia S. Krüger, Michael Wuttke

Details of the epidermal anatomy of Glyptostrobus europaeus (BRONGN.) UNGER from the Late Oligocene locality Norken in the Westerwald (Rhineland-Palatinate, W-Germany) are documented and described by means of scanning electron microscopy of in situ cuticles. The taxon had a wide distribution over…

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