Zitteliana

14/10/2024

First recognition of Megalolamna fossil shark genus in Europe, redefining its type species as M. serotinus from the Miocene, expands the shark's known range to the Mediterranean and Paratethys seas.

https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.98.e131387

DePaul University Fort Hays State University

21/12/2023

Researchers revise Middle Cenomanian coral fauna in Bavaria, revealing 98 species & a new discovery, enhancing understanding of Cretaceous coral evolution and biogeography.

https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796

UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

In the Northern Calcareous Alps, relics of a formerly widely distributed shallow marine facies belonging to the Branderfleck Formation (upper Albian to lower Turonian) crop out and contain locally abundant corals. The fauna described here derives from Middle Cenomanian sediments. This study compleme...

18/12/2023

Early Pleistocene freshwater mollusk fossil fauna discovered in Turkey's Denizli Basin, offering insights into the connection between Pontocaspian and Aegean regions.

https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.97.115682

Naturalis Utrecht University

We describe here a newly discovered, diverse fossil fauna of freshwater gastropods and bivalves from the Denizli Basin in SW Turkey. The material was collected from the Kolankaya Formation, for which latest chronostratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic data indicate an Early Pleistocene age, which is...

13/12/2023

New insights on Paleozoic platycerate gastropods:
Orthonychia yutaroi, the oldest of its kind, challenges protoconch morphology distinctions, hinting at evolutionary shifts in larval development.

https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.97.115688

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Uppsala University FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg American Museum of Natural History

27/11/2023

This study documents the sedimentary succession and biostratigraphy of an almost continuous section of the Toarcian at a classical location in Northern Germany and discusses its implications for sealevel changes and palaeogeography.

https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.97.110677

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

A temporary outcrop in southern Lower Saxony permitted the sedimentological, geochemical and palaeontological investigation of a 40.8 m thick Toarcian section, from the top of the Amaltheenton Formation, through the Posidonienschiefer and Jurensismergel Formations, to lower parts of the Opalinuston....

15/09/2023

A new study suggests three beetle larvae from Cretaceous and Miocene ambers were fungus eaters:
https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.26.104553

İTÜ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

23/12/2022

A new study of the Late Jurassic gastropods from Saal and the Nattheim area brings the number of reported species to 156.

Read more: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.e84187

Freie Universität Berlin Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

19/12/2022

Six gastropod species new to science are described from the Upper Jurassic (Upper Kimmeridgian) reefal limestones of South Germany: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.e84187

Freie Universität Berlin Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

15/12/2022

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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of our publisher Pensoft, we are excited to invite you to a short user satisfaction survey and let you share your invaluable feedback.  Throughout December, on behalf of Pensoft, we are kindly asking you to take 3 minutes and contribute to the next big up...

07/12/2022

The fossil, just described in a study in the journal Fossil Record, is about one million years older than other Pterodactylus specimens.

22/08/2022

Description and illustration of six bivalve taxa from the Early Bathonian to Early Callovian Ferruginous Oolite Formation and 24 taxa from the Callovian to basal-most Cretaceous Spiti Shale Formation of the Spiti and Zanskar areas in the Indian Himalayas: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.87253

17/08/2022

A new fossil specimen of Windipila spinifera provides the first evidence of the occurrence of interior spheres in this species.

"The specimen is reminiscent of germinated zygospores of the germ-sporangial type, and thus may suggest affinities of W. spinifera to the zygomycetes," comment the authors.

Research article: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.e86327

The University of Kansas Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Windipila spinifera from the Rhynie cherts is a spheroidal microfossil enveloped in a hyphal mantle from which extend prominent spines and otherwise shaped projections. It is believed to be a reproductive unit of a fungus in the Glomeromycota or zygomycetes, but features to determine the systematic....

28/06/2022

These clusters of circular fossil egg capsules from the Franconian Amaltheenton Facies (Lower Jurassic, Upper Pliensbachian) are more likely to be deposited by unknown insects than by marine gastropods. Read more about them here: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.84493

10/06/2022

Description of a large collection of lanternfish otoliths from the late early to early middle Miocene from western and central Honshu, with the description of eight new species: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.83571

Statens Naturhistoriske Museum 奈良文化財研究所

23/05/2022

A study of the ammonites at the Wochenberg hill near Schömberg-Schörzingen, the results of excavations between 2014 and 2022: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.82835

Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart

14/04/2022

A revision of past biostratigraphic interpretations of Hildoglochiceras species, to clarify the degree of reliability of previous biostratigraphic interpretations and stres the local significance of interpretations related to data reliability.

A Hildoglochiceras-rich horizon is reported from a thin carbonate intercalation within the siliciclastic Upper Jurassic Jhuran Formation of the Jara Dome, western Kachchh Mainland. The Hildoglochiceras specimens have been used for the first population-level study of the genus based on a multivariate...

14/04/2022

One of the earliest teleost otolith assemblages known so far, from the late Pliensbachian of the Buttenheim clay pit near Bamberg, Franconia, northern Bavaria, was found to contain seven species, including three new species.

👉 Read more in this research article: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.96.81737

Statens Naturhistoriske Museum Freie Universität Berlin

22/02/2022

Fossil leaf-mining caterpillars from amber are firstly described as the new species Phyllocnistis cretacea from Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber and Phyllonorycter inopinata from Eocene Baltic amber.

👉 Read more and see pictures in this research article: https://doi.org/10.3897/zitteliana.95.63317

02/02/2022

The paleontological record from Big Bend National Park in Texas, USA, chronicles nearly 120 million years of largely uninterrupted deposition through Late Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene time. This is a taxonomic list of its assemblage of fossil species.

The extraordinary paleontological record from Big Bend National Park (BIBE), Texas chronicles nearly 120 million years of largely uninterrupted deposition through Late Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene time. Therefore, the park records one of the most complete and continuous fossil records of its ki...

27/01/2022

A catalog of the currently known assemblage of fossil plant, invertebrate, and vertebrate species from Big Bend National Park in Texas, USA, within a single, comprehensive record.

The extraordinary paleontological record from Big Bend National Park (BIBE), Texas chronicles nearly 120 million years of largely uninterrupted deposition through Late Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene time. Therefore, the park records one of the most complete and continuous fossil records of its ki...

12/01/2022

10/12/2021

Fossil leaf-mining caterpillars from amber are firstly described as the new species Phyllocnistis cretacea from Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber and Phyllonorycter inopinata from Eocene Baltic amber. Both show typical traits of leaf-miners, and specifically, of later instars of caterpillars of their r...

27/10/2021

🆕The Geology collection policy of the 🇫🇮 Finnish Museum of Natural History (Luonnontieteellinen museo) was added to the ICEDIG Project Outcomes Collection in RIO Journal.
➡️ Check out the new Policy Brief: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e76875
➡️ See the whole Collection (15 research outcomes to date): https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.84

University of Helsinki CETAF - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities

23/07/2021

From the rich fossiliferous sites of Vlădiceni, Romania, a new fossil species of soldier beetle. This is first insight into the extinct entomofauna that was present 11.5 million years ago on the Moldavian Platform.

➡ Read more in this research article published with us: https://doi.org/10.3897/travaux.64.e64706

15/07/2021