Ectaetia capdoliensis sp. n., first Cretaceous and oldest representative of the scatopsid subfamily Ectaetiinae, is described from the Late Albian / Early Cenomanian amber of southwestern France. This fossil demonstrates the remarkable morphological stability of these flies since at least the mid-Cretaceous. It suggests the presence of rotten wood under wet palaeoenvironment for the correspondi...

Two fossil species, Paraphloeostiba electrica sp.n. and Phyllodrepa antiqua sp.n. (Staphylinidae, Omaliinae), are described from Baltic amber. Their external and relevant internal structures are illustrated using propagation phase contrast synchrotron microtomography. The palaeobiogeogaphy of the two genera, the thermophilous Paraphloeostiba, the temperate Phyllodrepa, as well as palaeoenvironm...

1 School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2 Biology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Science, and Letters at Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, 3 Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (HEP), Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany, 4 Fachbereich Geowissenschaften der...

1) The palaeoenvironment and biostratigraphical significance of the conchostracans from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of Bristol and South Wales. 2 2) Body size evolution in Parareptilia and the influence of (re-)scaling on macroevolutionary studies 3 3) Evolution of ecospace occupancy by marine reptiles during the Mesozoic 4 4) Conulariid affinity, cnidarian phylogeny and the origin of Eu...

The discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved skull permits the description of the new South American fossil species of the rodent, Josephoartigasia monesi sp. nov. (family: Dinomyidae; Rodentia: Hystricognathi: Caviomorpha). This species with estimated body mass of nearly 1000kg is the largest yet recorded. The skull sheds new light on the anatomy of the extinct giant rodents of the Dinomyi...

benthic foraminiferal assemblages from maastrichtian strata, gansserina gansseri-abathamphalus mayaroensis planktonic foraminiferal zone, of the abtalkh formation at aitamir section (west of the kopeh-dagh basin) were investigated in order to evaluate the palaeoenvironmental changes (organic matter flux and bottom-water oxygenation). maastrichtian faunal assemblages are well preserved and diver...

Quilty, P.G., Whitehead, J. & Lewis, D. 2013 (17:xii): Age and palaeoenvironment of Pliocene sediments, Cameron Inlet Formation, eastern Flinders Island, Tasmania: implications for southeastern Australian biostratigraphy. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 147: 51–83. ISSN 0080-4703. School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Au...