The Makgadikgadi Basin in Botswana hosts a system of salt lakes, which developed from the Upper Pleistocene onward due to gradual shrinking giant Lake Palaeo-Makgadikgadi. Stratigraphic and palaeoclimatic studies this area are difficult influence several factors, such as complex history regional tectonic activities, well climatic changes coupled with dryland diagenetic processes. This lake, cen...

The present study represents a detailed systematic of obtained ostracods in sixty three samples from an outcrop section the Shiranish Formation (Campanian – Maastrichtian), Dukan area, Kurdistan, northern Iraq. Thirty ostracod species belonging to twenty one genera are found, whereas nineteen previously recorded. Eleven new described detected, which represented Bairdia dukanensis sp. nov., Bair...

In this study we mimic the unique, transparent protective carapace (shell) of myodocopid ostracods, through which their compound eyes see, to demonstrate that ultrastructure also provides functions strength and protection for a relatively thin structure. The bulk window in large, pelagic cypridinid (Myodocopida) Macrocypridina castanea was mimicked using film deposition dielectric materials cre...