Clypeaster scillae Desmoulins, 1837 from Miocene beds near Podgračeno, Eastern Slovenia

A Left-Handed, Stem-Twining Plant from the Miocene Shanwang Formation of Eastern China

Twining stems of plants are very common in extant tropical and subtropical forests, and the climbing growth habit of plants may be an evolutionary innovation and ecological adaptation to either closed, shady or open, edge environments. However, the origin of handedness in climbing plants remains unclear. Here we report a Miocene (ca. 16 million years ago) macrofossil from the Shanwang Formation...

Fokienia shengxianensis sp. nov. (Cupressaceae) from the late Miocene of eastern China and its paleoecological implications

Squilla taulinanus n. sp. (Crustacea, Stomatopoda, Squillidae) from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of Taulignan, south-eastern France

Mantis shrimps (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) are rather rare in the fossil record. Nineteen species have been assigned to Squillidae, of which 12 species have been recorded from the Miocene. We describe herein a squillid, Squilla taulinanus n. sp., from the Miocene of Taulignan, south-eastern France. The exceptionally well-preserved specimen is remarkable in apparently having abdominal somites 5–6 c...

A new species of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones, Sironidae) from Eastern Slovenia

A new species of Cyphophthalmi belonging to the Laurasian family Sironidae is described and illustrated on the basis of external anatomy and genitalia. Siro crassus sp. n., known from leaf litter from two beech forest localities in Eastern Slovenia, is a relatively large (2.2–2.6 mm in length), long-legged epigean species, in which the patella of leg IV surpasses the end of the body. The new sp...

Miocene Hominoids from Pakistan

Remains of hominoid primates collected by Yale Peabody Museum Geological Survey of Pakistan expeditions to the Siwalik Group rocks of the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan, are described. They consist of facial, gnathic, dental, and postcranial remains of Ramapithecus, Sivapithecus, and Gigantopithecus. They are discussed anatomically and without precise taxonomic attributions. The hominoids come from 2...