cations the text of the explanatory notes that accompany a set of two maps co-published in 1999 by the Commission for the Geological Map of the World and ANDRA entitled: Maps of the World Environment during the last two Climatic Extremes (1. The Last Glacial Maximum — ca 18,000 ± 2,000 yrs B.P., 2. The Holocene Optimum — ca 8,000 ± 1,000 yrs B.P.). A reduced version of these two maps, originall...

The paleobiogeography of the theropod clade Compsognathidae is here reaccessed in order to test the hypothesis of this taxon being adapted specifically to inhabit semi-arid environments. Data about localities where these fossils were collected and their paleoenvironments were gathered from the literature. Compsognathids seem to be found especially in sedimentary deposits known as Fossil Lagerst...