Palaeoecology is increasingly contributing to conservation biology and restoration ecology by extending the recent annual decennial records of ecological observations centennial millennial time scales. One almost neglected potential applications palaeoecological investigations in discovering hidden species subrecent fossil records. Such discoveries can be common biodiversity hotspots which faun...

Tubes of a new serpulid species, Neovermilia gundstrupensis sp. nov., from the lower part Kerteminde Marl Formation (Selandian, middle Paleocene) Gundstrup gravel pit, Fyn, Denmark, represent first serpulids this group Selandian Denmark. Within long-ranging genus (Oxfordian to Recent), finds extend last recorded occurrence an informal sub-group closely related upper Danian Selandian. is charact...

A recommendation of: Manon Hullot, Gildas Merceron, Pierre-Olivier Antoine Spatio-temporal diversity of dietary preferences and stress sensibilities early middle Miocene Rhinocerotidae from Eurasia: impact climate changes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.06.490903

This is the first description of Ordovician cephalopods from Morocco. Although their occurrence has been known for a long time, only a poorly preserved conch from the late Katian of Ikhf n’Ouzerg (central Anti-Atlas) was described as “Orthoceras hastile Barrande” by Termier & Termier (1950). In some cases Ordovician cephalopods were mentioned within faunal lists without classification (e.g., Gu...