Dendrobranchiate shrimps are abundant in Fossil-Lagerstätten (where fossils exceptionally preserved). Despite their preservation, classifying them can be challenging as most diagnostic characters based upon extant species. Penaeus natatorGlaessner, 1945 (Late Cretaceous, Lebanon, Sahel Alma), is one of those cases which the systematic assignment species difficult. It was assigned by “default” t...

Fossil crocodylians from the early Miocene (Eggenburgian, MN3a) sites of Ahnikov (Most Basin, Czech Republic) are described in this paper. The new material presented here includes over 200 remains (bones, teeth and osteoderms), therefore constitutes largest crocodylian sample known fossil record Republic. Assignment specimens to alligatoroid taxon Diplocynodon cf. ratelii Pomel, 1847 (family Di...

We test the performance of two models that use mammalian communities to reconstruct multivariate palaeoenvironments. While both models exploit the correlation between mammal communities (defined in terms of functional groups) and arboreal heterogeneity, the first uses a multiple multivariate regression of community structure and arboreal heterogeneity, while the second uses a linear regression ...