We describe deep-water ghost shrimp assemblages from the otherwise well known Oligocene Kiscell Clay in Hungary. The described fossorial shrimps (Decapoda: Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae) include: Ctenocheles rupeliensis (younger synonym Callianassa nuda) and Lepidophthalmus crateriferus (younger synonym Callianassa brevimanus). The fossil material of the former species is assigned to Ctenoch...

Five palaeontological and geological field missions carried out in the Djourab Desert (Northern Chad) by the French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) have resulted in the discovery of about one hundred continental Mio-Plio-Pleistocene vertebrates sites. Until now three areas have been intensively collected: Koro Toro (KT), Kollé (KL) and Kossom Bougoudi (KB). All the fossils come from...

The Spathian (late Early Triassic) Virgin Formation of south-western Utah (U.S.A.) yields a comparatively diverse benthic fauna that flourished 2 Ma after the end-Permian mass extinction. In this study, we present quantitative palaeoecological data, which are analysed in the context of their depositional environments. This integrated approach helps to discriminate between effects of the end-Per...

This study presents new palynological and sedimentological data concerning the Upper Triassic outcrop El Atance (Guadalajara province, Spain). fossil site has provided a unique unprecedented concentration of reptile skeletons from Late in Iberian Peninsula, which are almost complete, articulated preserved three dimensions. It is type locality simosaurid nothosauroid Paludidraco multidentatus he...

The deep marine Ediacaran fossil record of Avalonia is dominated by the Rangeomorpha, a clade characterized up to four orders fractal-like branching. Despite their abundance, morphological diversity and recent increase in studies, aspects palaeobiology, palaeoecology phylogenetic position tree life are still hotly debated. has traditionally been interpreted as consisting organisms that lived er...

This paper focuses on traces of drilling predation in the middle Miocene gastropod assemblage Zaprešić Brijeg locality, Croatia, which provides further insight into palaeoecology south-western margin Pannonian Basin System during Badenian. The analyzed shells were collected first half 20th century, and are housed Croatian Natural History Museum (CNHM) Zagreb. CNHM collections contain 11063 shel...