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The second extinct microhisterid species (Coleoptera: Histeridae: Bacaniini) described from the Eocene Rovno amber using X-Ray microtomography Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Alexander V. Sokolov, Maxim V. Nabozhenko, Evgeniy V. Sadyrin, Dmitry V. Vasilenko, Evgeny E. Perkovsky
The third fossil species of the tribe Bacaniini (Coleoptera, Histeridae), Bacanius caterinoi Sokolov et Perkovsky, sp. nov., is described from the Eocene Rovno amber. Previous two extinct species w...
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A new Middle Eocene Baltic amber Exechiini (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) supports the likely rapid radiation of the tribe Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Loup Boudet, Clara Bouché, André Nel, Valérie Ngô-Muller
Here, we describe a Brachypeza sg. Ristocordyla sp. undetermined from the Eocene Baltic amber, as the first fossil representative of its subgenus, otherwise known from one extant Palaearctic specie...
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Pteridium (Dennstaedtiaceae) from Miocene of Patagonia (Río Negro, Argentina): the southernmost evidence of bracken fern in South America Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 M. A. Machado, A. Yañez, M. G. Passalia, C. Santonja, E. I. Vera, J. Suriano, F. Bechis
With only four species, Pteridium is one of the most-known fern genera for its role as pioneer in ecological succession and for being an aggressive weed. Despite its current wide distribution that ...
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Between grasslands, shrublands and forests. Paleoenvironmental and taphonomic implications of micromammals in hunter-gatherer archaeological contexts of Southern Pampean Hills Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Julián Mignino, Andrés Izeta, Roxana Cattáneo
The integral study of micromammals recovered from archaeological contexts provides a number of contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of human occupation. In this paper, based on a comp...
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SEM morphological study on Holotype of Spinicaudatan Shipingia luchangensis (Chen, 1974) comb. nov. From Upper Triassic of Huili, Sichuan, Southwest China Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Yan Xue, Gang Li, Xiao Teng
A re-examination of the holotype of the Rhaetian (Late Triassic) clam shrimp Loxomegaglypta luchangensis has revealed that the large-sized reticulations are located in the upper part, and the small...
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The first fossil of a tenebrionoid taxonomic enigma: Agnathus Germar (Coleoptera: Pyrochroidae: Agnathinae) in Bitterfeld amber, with remarks about age and geographic origin of the fossil Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Vitalii I. Alekseev, Andris Bukejs, Darren A. Pollock
Based on an inclusion in Bitterfeld amber, the first extinct species of the subfamily Agnathinae (Pyrochroidae) is described and illustrated. Agnathus groehni sp. nov. differs from two extant conge...
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Palaeontological and taphonomical investigations of the exceptionally rich concentration of Miocene vertebrate coprolites from Pécs-Danitzpuszta (Hungary, Mecsek Mts.) Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Zsófia Román, Martin Segesdi, Krisztina Sebe, Tamás Földes, Koraljka Bakrač, Attila Virág, Gábor Botfalvai
Thousands of coprolites have been collected from the Upper Miocene (Tortonian/Pannonian) sands of the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit, one of the most important mixed Neogene vertebrate localities in Hu...
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New record of conifer wood Agathoxylon from the Upper Jurassic in the Sichuan Basin, southern China, and its palaeobiodiversity and palaeoclimatic significance Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Aowei Xie, Yongdong Wang, Ning Tian, Zikun Jiang, Xiaoping Xie, Shuna Xi, Dieter Uhl
Although abundant and diverse foliage fossils are well recorded in the Upper Triassic and Lower–Middle Jurassic of the Sichuan Basin in South China, the Upper Jurassic plant fossils are rarely docu...
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Myrmarachne colombiana sp. n. (Araneae: Salticidae), a new species of ant-mimic spider in copal from Colombia, South America Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 George Poinar
Ant-mimicking spiders (Araneae: Salticide) are fascinating creatures that have evolved modified morphology and behaviours to resemble those of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ant-mimicking spiders ...
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Dental shape evolution of the giant panda (Ailuropoda, Ursidae) during the Quaternary Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Qigao Jiangzuo, Zien Huang, Chonghan Yu, Haowen Tong, Bei Zhang, Haiqian Hu, Deyuan Wang, Shiqi Wang, Jinyi Liu
The giant panda is well known to have unique dentition, adapted to bamboo exclusive diet. The teeth are used to cut and grind the bamboo. However, it is unclear how these teeth evolved through geog...
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A new species of cow shark (Hexanchiformes: Hexanchidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Seymour Island, Antarctica Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Rodolfo Otávio dos Santos, Douglas Riff, Renato Rodriguez Cabral Ramos, Igor Fernandes Rodrigues, Sandro Marcelo Scheffler, Paula Andrea Sucerquia, Marcelo de Araújo Carvalho
A new Xampylodon species is described based on a distinguished fossil tooth from Antarctica. The specimen comes from the uppermost level of the informal unit 9 of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian...
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A late Eocene frog assemblage from the Geste Formation, Puna of north-western Argentina Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Raúl O. Gómez, Guillermo F. Turazzini, Daniel A. García-López, M. Judith Babot
Frogs (Anura) are major components of tetrapod communities in the Neotropics and, according to divergence-time estimates, were already diverse in early Palaeogene times, but this is still poorly do...
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Cambrian palaeoscolecidomorph Cricocosmia caught in the act of moulting Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Chiyang Yu, Deng Wang, Jian Han
Molting (ecdysis) is a ubiquitous behaviour and critical process in the growth and development of extant ecdysozoans. The origin of ecdysis can be traced back to the early Cambrian period, primaril...
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The Upper Permian tubular fossils from South China and their possible affinity to sabellid polychaetes Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Jakub Słowiński, Matthew Clapham, Michał Zatoń
This study analyses intriguing tubular fossils derived from the Upper Permian deposits of southern China. The fossils’ structure is diagenetically altered by silicification precluding an unambiguou...
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The first mamenchisaurid from the Upper Jurassic Dongxing Formation of Guangxi, southernmost China Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Xin-Xin Ren, Xu-Ri Wang, Yan-Nan Ji, Zhen Guo, Qiang Ji
A new mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, Jingia dongxingensis gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Jurassic of Southernmost China is reported here. The holotype consists of partly preserved dorsal, sacra...
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Uncovering hidden footprints: revision of the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) Razorback Beds – home to Australia’s earliest reported dinosaur trackway Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Anthony Romilio, Roslyn Dick, Heather Skinner, Janice Millar
This investigation uses archival data (circa 1954) to elucidate new details on Australia’s first scientifically described dinosaur trackway, located at the Fireclay Caverns-Site A, Mount Morgan, Qu...
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Dwarf cornulitid tubeworms from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Olev Vinn, Mark A. Wilson, Anna Madison, Andrej Ernst, Ursula Toom
Four species of Conchicolites and two species of Cornulites occur in the Hirnantian of Estonia. Two new cornulitids Conchicolites corbalengus sp. nov. and Cornulites levigatus sp. nov. have been de...
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A new Myliobatiformes (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea) from the Miocene of Río Negro Province, Argentina and a review of the fossil Myliobatiformes of Argentina Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Julieta J. De Pasqua, Alexis M. Aranciaga Rolando, Federico L. Agnolín, Leandro C. Gaetano, Sergio Bogan
We report a dental plate belonging to a Myliobatiformes (Chondrichthyes, Batoidea) from the Gran Bajo del Gualicho Formation (Saladar Member; Upper Early Miocene-Lower Middle Miocene) located in th...
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Sands of time: ancient life in the late miocene of abu dhabi, united arab emirates Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Lars Werdelin
Published in Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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New Neogene fossil phocid postcranial material from the Atlantic (USA) Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Azizah B. Hafed, Irina A. Koretsky, John R. Nance, Lindsey Koper, Sulman J. Rahmat
To date, the phocid fossil record from the Western Atlantic includes representatives of the subfamilies Monachinae and Phocinae. New partial postcranial bones (humerus, innominate) of true seals fr...
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A new genus of Panguoidea in Lower Cretaceous Wealden amber Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Yuhui Zhuang, Jiahao Li, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, Bo Wang, Qingqing Zhang
The panguid wasps are a ‘primitive’ family found only in the Cretaceous. Herein, a new species and genus, Protopangu valdensis gen. et sp. nov. assigned to the family Panguidae, is described and il...
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New Miocene Mexican amber ant (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of the genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839 Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 F. Varela-Hernández, D. Flores-Zapoteco
The genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839 is considered the most species-diverse group of extant ants in the World. A new fossil species of ant Pheidole chaan sp. nov. (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) based on one...
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Deep-sea fish otoliths from the Lower Miocene Oi and Katada formations, Ichishi Group, Mie Prefecture, central Japan Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Yuki Tsuchiya, Werner Schwarzhans, Fumio Ohe, Atsushi Ujihara
Fish otoliths from the Lower Miocene Oi and Katada formations, Ichishi Group, central Japan, were examined, and a total of 894 specimens were obtained, of which 523 were assigned to 21 otolith-base...
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Traces of missing encrusters: borings reveal sclerobiont taphonomy in the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of the Cincinnati region, USA Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Mark A. Wilson, Caroline J. Buttler, Olev Vinn
The abundant shells and hardgrounds in the Cincinnatian Group (Upper Ordovician, Katian) of the upper midwestern United States were commonly encrusted and bored by a variety of organisms. Numerous ...
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Craniodental ontogenetic variation in the leontiniid coquenia bondi Deraco, Powell, & López, 2008 (Notoungulata, Toxodontia) from the Eocene of Northwestern Argentina Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Virginia Deraco, Fernando Abdala, Daniel A. García-López
Craniodental ontogenetic analyses on notoungulates are scarce. Several well-preserved specimens of the Eocene species Coquenia bondi allow for the first ontogenetic study in a Palaeogene leontiniid...
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First robber fly described from Mexican amber (Diptera: Asilidae: Laphriinae) Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Alexssandro Camargo, Lucas R. P. Gomes
Asilidae represents one of the most diverse Diptera families, the adults are rapacious predators of arthropods. Despite the huge diversity of extant species, robber flies are considered uncommon to...
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The enigmatic occurrence, size distribution, and significance of a new macrourid species, Nezumia armentrouti, based on otoliths from the Lincoln Creek Formation (upper Oligocene Section), Washington State, USA Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Gary L Stringer, Bruce J Welton
Teleostean otoliths (112 sagittae) from the Lincoln Creek Formation (upper Oligocene), Washington State, U.S.A., were identified as Nezumia armentrouti n. sp. except for two specimens. The preponde...
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New theropod remains from the late Barremian (Early Cretaceous) of Eastern Iberian Peninsula Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Adrian Montealegre, Oscar Castillo-Visa, Albert Sellés
In the last decade, the Iberian Peninsula has become a hot spot in the understanding of the early evolutionary history of large-bodied theropods from the Early Cretaceous, especially for the Spinos...
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A new stegosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Lei Jia, Ning Li, Liyang Dong, Jianru Shi, Zhishuai Kang, Suozhu Wang, Shichao Xu, Hailu You
Stegosaurs are a minor but iconic clade of ornithischian dinosaurs. They range from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, but are rare and poorly represented in the Cretaceous. Before this s...
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Insights on the oldest terror bird (Aves, Phorusrhacidae) from the Eocene of Argentina Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 C. Acosta Hospitaleche, W. Jones
Phorusrhacidae, commonly known as terror birds, constitutes a group of Cariamiformes that lived mainly in South America during the Cenozoic. The oldest record is represented by an isolated distal e...
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Exceptional morphological and taxonomic diversity of early seals (Phocidae) from the Atacama Region, Chile Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro, Carolina S. Gutstein, Mario E. Suárez
Contrasting with their current ranges in the Antarctic and subantarctic zones, the fossil record reveals that phocids (true and elephant seals) inhabited widespread subtropical regions across the S...
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New fossil remains of Bovids from the Middle Siwaliks of Punjab, Pakistan Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Shakila Naz, Tayyaba Sultana, Salma Sultana, Riffat Yasin, Khizar Samiullah
A detailed taxonomic study of fossil mammals from five different localities including Nagri, Padhri, Markhal, Dhok Pathan type locality and Hasnot, from the Miocene of Middle Siwalik, Punjab, Pakis...
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One of the last shelters of soft-shelled turtles (Testudines, Trionychidae) in Europe – first fossil occurrence of a trionychid from the Plio-Pleistocene of Kos Island, Greece Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Antonios Isidoros Avrithis, Georgios L. Georgalis
Trionychid turtles are rare in the fossil record of the Eastern Mediterranean and therefore, knowledge about their presence is restricted both geographically and stratigraphically. In this work, th...
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Hofmeyr. A Late Pleistocene human skull from South Africa Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Fred H. Smith
Published in Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Pelvic and hindlimb muscular reconstruction of the paravian theropod Buitreraptor gonzalezorum and its palaeobiological implications Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 F. A. Gianechini, L. Colli, P. J. Makovicky
Soft tissue reconstructions of fossil vertebrates provide valuable data and support for functional interpretations. Here, we present the pelvic and hindlimb muscular reconstruction of Buitreraptor ...
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A new species of lamprey from Cretaceous semisaline environment in China Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Weijia Huang, Zhiheng Ma, Lihong Fu, Shilong Guo
A new fossil species of lamprey, Caeruleum gracilis sp. nov. is described from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation in China Hebei province, North China. Caeruleum gracilis sp. nov. is characte...
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Docodontans (Mammaliaformes) from the Late Jurassic of Germany Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Thomas Martin, Alexander O. Averianov, Andreas J. Lang, Julia A. Schultz, Oliver Wings
Docodon hercynicus sp. nov. from the Upper Jurassic (upper Kimmeridgian) Süntel Formation of the Langenberg Quarry in Lower Saxony is the first docodontan recorded from Central Europe. The two lowe...
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Late Miocene teleost fish otoliths from Brunei Darussalam (Borneo) and their implications for palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental conditions Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 László Kocsis, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Emma Bernard, Adibah Johari
We report here diverse Late Miocene fish assemblages based on otoliths collected from sedimentary rocks deposited in coastal marine settings in northern Borneo (Seria and Miri formations and Tutong...
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Chondrichthyan fishes from the Middle Eocene Osinovaya Formation of Rostov Region, Russia Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Evgeny V. Popov, Vladimir A. Lopyrev, Andrei V. Panteleev, Aleksei V. Biriukov, Fedor K. Timirchev
A new chondrichthyan assemblage comprising 27 genera is described from the Middle Eocene Osinovaya Formation of the Bystraya River Basin, Morozovsk District of Rostov Region, in the southern part o...
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Body size evolution of the Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous bivalves of Kutch, India Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ranita Saha, Shubhabrata Paul, Shiladri Sekhar Das, Debattam Sarkar, Arghya Poddar, Arkaprava Mukhopadhyay, Debarati Chattopadhyay, Subhendu Bardhan
An organism’s body size is interlinked with several ecological and physiological parameters and, therefore, has been widely used to detect and describe long-term macroevolutionary trends. One of th...
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New data on the bone histology of Araripesuchus buitreraensis (Crocodylomorpha: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Argentinean Patagonia Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Tamara G. Navarro, Ignacio A. Cerda, María L. Fernández Dumont, Sebastián Apesteguía, Diego Pol
Araripesuchus is a genus of Notosuchia from the Upper Cretaceous of southern continents. A previous paleohistological study performed in individuals assigned to one of the South American the specie...
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Ordovician conodont biodiversity analysis from the Precordillera (Argentina): a new insight in the global context of the GOBE Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 F. Moreno, A. Mestre, S. Heredia
The rapid diversification of conodonts during the Ordovician has been extensively studied by several authors, each presenting distinct diversity curves for different paleocontinents. This study ana...
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A remarkable fossil berothoid larva (Neuroptera) from the late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine) Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Vladimir N. Makarkin, Evgeny E. Perkovsky
The larva of Berothidae or Rhachiberothidae (Neuroptera) is described from the late Eocene Rovno amber; it is the first record of either family from this amber. The larva is in particular character...
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New geographic and stratigraphic occurrences of the enigmatic extinct lamniform shark, Megalolamna (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), from the eastern USA Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Kenshu Shimada, Robert W. Boessenecker, Victor J. Perez, Bretton W. Kent
Megalolamna is an extinct lamniform shark genus that is known from Miocene marine deposits. In this study, three new specimens of Megalolamna collected from the eastern USA are newly described, and...
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The last of the oldies: a basal rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) of Patagonia, Argentina Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Lucas Nicolás Lerzo, Pablo Ariel Gallina, Juan Ignacio Canale, Alejandro Otero, José Luis Carballido, Sebastián Apesteguía, Peter Juraj Makovicky
Rebbachisauridae is mainly recorded during the early Late Cretaceous in Gondwana, and in South America in particular. Sidersaura marae gen. et sp. nov. was found in rocks of the Huincul Formation (...
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The first Paleogene record of Hyperisus Mulsant and Rey (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) with description of a new species and an attempt of biogeographic analysis of ptinid assemblage in Baltic amber Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Vitalii I. Alekseev, Andris Bukejs
Based on an inclusion in Baltic amber, the first extinct species of the genus Hyperisus Mulsant and Rey, 1863 (Ptinidae: Ernobiinae: Xestobiini), namely H. carstengroehni sp. nov. is described. Thi...
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What does lime tell us about cadaveric remains? Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Aida Gutiérrez, Dominika Nociarová, Assumpció Malgosa, Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo, Núria Armentano
Lime is commonly used in human burials, but its effects on bodies are not clear at all. Different short-time experimental studies concluded that lime does not inhibit the decomposition of bodies. T...
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The oldest-known Cymatophlebiinae (Odonata: Aeshnoptera: Cymatophlebiidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, northeastern China Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Guijun Fan, André Nel, Lijun Zhang, Chuantao Xiao, Daran Zheng
The dragonfly Aeshnoptera greatly diversified with a wide distribution during the Mesozoic. The genus Cymatophlebia is one of the most diversified aeshnopteran dragonflies, which survived during th...
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Until when did beavers historically inhabit the Iberian Peninsula? The importance of consulting primary sources to avoid errors in historical ecology Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Jacinto Román, Cesar M. Aguilar-Gómez
Traditionally, it has been accepted that Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) became extinct in the Iberian Peninsula in the seventeenth century, although some authors delay this until the eighteenth or...
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A new Acrulia species from Danish amber (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae: Omaliini) Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Alexey V. Shavrin, Alexey Solodovnikov, Kristaps Kairišs, Josh Jenkins Shaw
Acrulia danica Shavrin sp. n. from late Eocene Danish amber is described and illustrated based on a female holotype. The new species, embedded within a small piece of amber, was scanned using X-ray...
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Evolutionary palaeoecology of serpulid (Polychaeta, Annelida) symbiosis Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Olev Vinn, Jakub Słowiński, Michał Zatoń, Abdullah A. Alkahtane, Magdy El Hedeny, Saleh Al Farraj
Throughout their evolutionary history, serpulids, the calcareous tube-dwelling suspension-feeding polychaetes, formed symbiotic relationships with cnidarians (32 relationships), molluscs (six relat...
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What kind of “lion” was the Natodomeri lion? – a comparative analysis of the Natodomeri lion with other Pleistocene lions Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Shaheer Sherani, Maryam Sherani
The history of the lion in Africa is obscure. A giant lion was reported from Natodomeri, a MIS 8–7 site located in East Africa. Initial analysis showed intriguing features of the specimen. However,...
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First in situ documentation of a fossil tooth of the megatooth shark Otodus (Megaselachus) megalodon from the deep sea in the Pacific Ocean Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jürgen Pollerspöck, Danielle Cares, David A. Ebert, Katherine A. Kelley, Robert Pockalny, Rebecca S. Robinson, Daniel Wagner, Nicolas Straube
In this short communication, we describe the first reported case of an in-situ observation and subsequent sampling of a fossil Otodus megalodon tooth from a deep-sea locality in the Pacific Ocean (...
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Entomopathogenic fungi (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) on a termite (Blattodea: Mastotermitidae) trapped in Miocene amber from Chiapas, Mexico Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Diana Karen Arroyo-Sánchez, Javier Víctor, Víctor Manuel Córdova-Tabares, Ana Lilia Hernández-Damián, Emilio Estrada-Ruiz
Palaeomycological material has rarely been reported in Mexican localities, especially parasitic fungi. In this paper, we present the first formal report of an interaction between an entomopathogeni...
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Estimating tusk masses in proboscideans: a comprehensive analysis and predictive model Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Asier Larramendi
The size of tusks in proboscideans has numerous implications for their function, biology, ecology, and other aspects of both extant and extinct species. Yet, no prior studies have explored the rela...
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A new genus of the Araucarian-feeding tribe Oxycraspedini (Coleoptera: Belidae) from Eocene Baltic amber Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 A.A. Legalov, D.V. Vasilenko, E.E. Perkovsky
The new genus, Bojebenzonia n. gen. and its species B. karinae n. sp. from the tribe Oxycraspedini (Belidae: Oxycoryninae) are described from late Eocene Baltic amber. Bojebenzonia differs from the...
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A new fossil condor (Aves, Cathartiformes) from the Early Pliocene of Catamarca province, Argentina Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Federico J. Degrange, Ricardo A. Bonini, Sergio M. Georgieff, Lucía M. Ibañez
Condors are New World vultures (Cathartiformes, Cathartidae) with broad wings and short tails. The fossil record of condors (Aves, Cathartiformes) in South America is scarce, and particularly in Ar...
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Small-sized Megasecopteromorpha (Insecta: Palaeoptera) occurred also in the Pennsylvanian Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Nan Yang, Dong Ren, Olivier Béthoux
Pennsylvanian insects were popularised as past giants, but recent discoveries unravelled a yet poorly known component of small-sized forms. A new species of the extinct Megasecopteromorpha, a diver...
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Cyonasua zettii sp. nov. (Procyonidae, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Central Argentina and a review of the fossil record of Cerro Azul Formation Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Daniel Hontecillas, Leopoldo H. Soibelzon, Claudia I. Montalvo, Ricardo A. Bonini
A detailed taxonomic study of all known fossil specimens assigned to Procyonidae from sediments of Cerro Azul Formation (early Huayquerian Stage/Age, Late Miocene) outcroping at La Pampa and Buenos...
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Age of Xingjiawan mammalian assemblage revealed by new Cervidae and Bovidae material from Yongdeng, Gansu Province, China Hist. Biol. (IF 1.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Yikun Li, Shiqi Wang, Tao Deng
New cervid and bovid material from Yongdeng, Gansu Province, China, is described here. It should be attributed to Cervavitus cf. C. shanxius and ‘Gazella’ paotehensis. At least 12 mammal species oc...