Early Tithonian Saturnalidae (Radiolaria) from the Solnhofen area (Southern Franconian Alb, southern Germany)

A New Non-Pterodactyloid Pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Southern Germany

BACKGROUND The 'Solnhofen Limestone' beds of the Southern Franconian Alb, Bavaria, southern Germany, have for centuries yielded important pterosaur specimens, most notably of the genera Pterodactylus and Rhamphorhynchus. Here we describe a new genus of non-pterodactyloid pterosaur based on an extremely well preserved fossil of a young juvenile: Bellubrunnus rothgaengeri (gen. et sp. nov.). ME...

Southern Area Consortium

Car Crashes With Polytrauma In Southern Germany

Multiple, life-threatening injuries, often termed polytrauma, do not only demonstrate a high risk of mortality, but also for long-term or persistent disabilities for surviving victims. Road traffic accidents represent the most frequent cause for polytraumata in Germany. However, there are only estimates for the annual incidence rate of these critical injuries and little information exists about...

The Southern Oscillation in the Early 1990s

[1] Two aspects of the onset of a warm event in the Southern Oscillation are 1) the subtropical South Pacific High is weakened in early southern winter which weakens subtropical sea level pressure (SLP) gradients, and thus reduces the trade winds and upwelling along the equator, and 2) in the months that follow, and particularly during the mature phase of the warm event during southern summer, ...

Middle-Late Cambrian acritarchs from the Zardkuh area in the High Zagros Mountains, southern Iran: Stratigraphic and paleogeographic implications

The excellent preservation of the acritarchs, their great abundance, diversity and good stratigraphic control permit establishment of a detailed Middle and Late Cambrian acritarch biozonation. A total of 56 palynomorph species form the basis of 10 local acritarch assemblage zones. Assemblage zones I-II occur in the lower and middle parts of the Member C of the Mila Formation and suggest Early-m...