Contributions to Avian Paleontology

Avian Paleontology and Evolution

Miocoracias chenevali, nov. gen., nov. spec., a new genus and species of roller (Aves: Coraciiformes s. s.: Coraciidae) is described from the Early Miocene of Saint-Gérand-le-Puy. This family had not yet been reported from the rich fossil avifauna of this area. Although the material is fragmentary it shows morphological characteristics different from those of the extinct family Geranopteridae, ...

Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology

Recovery of new decapod specimens from middle and late Eocene rocks of Pakistan prompted reevaluation of the known decapod fauna of the region. Specimens come from the Sulaiman Range in Balochistan, North-West Frontier, and Punjab provinces, and range temporally from the middle Lutetian through the Bartonian and possibly early Priabonian global marine ages. Proxicarpilius planifrons, Portunus s...

Genetics, Paleontology, and Macroevolution

Paleontology: C. Stock

Journal of Paleontology

ABTRACT--Available museum collections have been utilised for a functional analysis of common members of the bivalve fauna of the Cretaceous Chalk Formation of England. It is concluded that many members of the fauna were able to inhabit their unusual environment by virtue of specialised adaptations. There is an apparent paucity of infaunal bivalves in true Chalk lithology, and the fauna is domin...