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  1. Sigurd von Boletzky was a cephalopod researcher who was world-renowned for his enthusiasm for his field of research, for his friendly and calm personality, and, of course, his publications. He dedicated most o...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Laure Bonnaud-Ponticelli, Jaruwat Nabhitabhata, Dirk Fuchs, Kenneth De Baets, Ji Cheng and René Hoffmann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:7
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  2. The phragmocone-bearing coleoid cephalopods Sepia, Sepiella, Metasepia and Hemisepius (sepiids) are the most diverse of all extant chambered cephalopods and show the highest disparity. As such, they have a great ...

    Authors: Peter D. Ward, Job Lukas Veloso and Christian Klug
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:6
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  3. Relationships between growth increments of internal shell and age was studied in three neritic decapod cephalopods cultured in laboratory through their entire life cycles. The studied cephalopods were the nektic

    Authors: Jaruwat Nabhitabhata, Jiraporn Suriyawarakul, Anyanee Yamrungrueng, Kittichai Tongtherm and Surangkana Tuanapaya
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:5
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  4. The impact of increasing atmospheric CO2 and the resulting decreasing pH of seawater are in the focus of current environmental research. These factors cause problems for marine calcifiers such as reduced calcific...

    Authors: Céline Weber, Michael Hautmann, Amane Tajika and Christian Klug
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:4
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  5. From the Vitznau Marl (lower Valanginian) at the locality Wart in northeastern Switzerland (Alpstein area), 18 species from 17 genera and 13 families are described, including the genera Actinaraea, Actinastrea, A...

    Authors: Rosemarie Christine Baron-Szabo, Karl Tschanz and Peter Kürsteiner
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:3
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  6. A small assemblage of 22 otoliths was identified from the historical collection of Bluntschli and Peyer gathered in 1912 on the Itaya riverbank at Iquitos, Peru (Amazonia), from the Pebas Formation. The Pebas ...

    Authors: Werner W. Schwarzhans, Orangel A. Aguilera, Torsten M. Scheyer and Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:2
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  7. An important component of the Alpine vertebrate record of Late Triassic age derives from the Kössen Formation, which crops out extensively in the eastern Alps. Here, we present an isolated and only partially p...

    Authors: Torsten M. Scheyer, Urs Oberli, Nicole Klein and Heinz Furrer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:1
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  8. The cephalopod arm armature is certainly one of the most important morphological innovations responsible for the evolutionary success of the Cephalopoda. New palaeontological discoveries in the recent past aff...

    Authors: Dirk Fuchs, René Hoffmann and Christian Klug
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:27
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  9. The Miocene aquatic and terrestrial fossil record from western Amazonia constitute a clear evidence of the palaeoenvironmental diversity that prevailed in the area, prior to the establishment of the Amazon Riv...

    Authors: Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Orangel A. Aguilera, Aldo Benites-Palomino, Annie S. Hsiou, José L. O. Birindelli, Sylvain Adnet, Edwin-Alberto Cadena and Torsten M. Scheyer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:26
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  10. The second-order Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis affected major groups of marine organisms. While its impact has been intensively studied for ammonites, the response of belemnites is only currently emerging thro...

    Authors: Kenneth De Baets, Paulina S. Nätscher, Patricia Rita, Emmanuel Fara, Pascal Neige, Jérémie Bardin, Guillaume Dera, Luís Vítor Duarte, Zoe Hughes, Peter Laschinger, José Carlos García-Ramos, Laura Piñuela, Christof Übelacker and Robert Weis
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:25
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  12. We study the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtle Uluops uluops using micro-computed tomography scans to investigate the cranial anatomy of paracryptodires, and provide new insights into the evolution of the internal...

    Authors: Yann Rollot, Serjoscha W. Evers and Walter G. Joyce
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:23
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  13. Mating was observed and described in captive individuals of Sepiola affinis, Sepiola intermedia and Sepietta obscura (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) collected in the Catalan Sea, western Mediterranean Sea. This is the ...

    Authors: Giambattista Bello and Adrianne Deickert
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:22
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  14. Septal crowding is widely known as a sign of maturity in conchs of ammonoids and nautiloids. However, reduced septal spacing may also occur as a consequence of adverse ecological conditions. Here, we address t...

    Authors: Sophie Marie Beck, Kenneth De Baets, Christian Klug and Dieter Korn
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:21
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  15. We here describe a monospecific assemblage of giant aquatic snakes from the middle Eocene of Kpogamé, Togo. The material, consisting of large isolated vertebrae, is referred to Palaeophis africanus, an enigmatic ...

    Authors: Georgios L. Georgalis, Guillaume Guinot, Koffi Evenyon Kassegne, Yawovi Zikpi Amoudji, Ampah Kodjo C. Johnson, Henri Cappetta and Lionel Hautier
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:20
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  16. Trace fossils occur in several strata of the Devonian and Carboniferous of the eastern Anti-Atlas, but they are still poorly documented. Here, we describe a fossil swimming trace from strata overlying the Hang...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Abdelouahed Lagnaoui, Melina Jobbins, Wahiba Bel Haouz and Amine Najih
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:19
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  17. Large constrictor snakes, referred to the genera Palaeopython and Paleryx, are an ecologically prominent part of the fauna of Europe during the Paleogene. Most species were named over a century ago and their taxo...

    Authors: Georgios L. Georgalis, Márton Rabi and Krister T. Smith
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:18
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  19. Few fossil fish otolith associations have been described from the Pacific side of the Americas and, except for a single species (Steindachneria svennielseni), none have been described from Pacific South America s...

    Authors: Werner W. Schwarzhans and Sven N. Nielsen
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:16
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  20. Nautilid, coleoid and ammonite cephalopods preserving jaws and soft tissue remains are moderately common in the extremely fossiliferous Konservat-Lagerstätte of the Hadjoula, Haqel and Sahel Aalma region, Leba...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Alexander Pohle, Rosemarie Roth, René Hoffmann, Ryoji Wani and Amane Tajika
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:15
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  21. The Aitamir Formation, situated in the Koppeh Dagh Basin in the northeast of Iran, is known for its well-exposed Albian-to-Cenomanian succession. Although geologists previously documented a number of macro- an...

    Authors: Javad Sharifi, Amane Tajika, Alireza Mohammadabadi and Mohammad Hossein Tabari Abkuh
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:14
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  22. Articulated thecae of the holocystitid diploporitan echinoderm Holocystites scutellatus from the middle Silurian (Wenlock: Sheinwoodian) Massie Formation of southeastern Indiana, USA, are encrusted by distinctive...

    Authors: James R. Thomka, Thomas E. Bantel and Carlton E. Brett
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:13
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  23. A newly collected specimen of the enigmatic coleoid genus Longibelus is recorded from lower Turonian strata along the River Shadrinka in Sakhalin (Russian Far East). To date, this is the first record of Late Cret...

    Authors: Elena A. Jagt-Yazykova, Martin Košťák and John W. M. Jagt
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:12
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  24. Findings of ammonoid soft tissues are extremely rare compared to the rich fossil record of ammonoid conchs ranging from the Late Devonian to the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary. Here, we apply the computed-tomog...

    Authors: R. Hoffmann, D. Morón-Alfonso, C. Klug and K. Tanabe
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:11
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  25. Especially in Lagerstätten with exceptionally preserved fossils, we can sometimes recognize fossilized remains of meals of animals. We suggest the term leftover fall for the event and the term pabulite for the...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Günter Schweigert, René Hoffmann, Robert Weis and Kenneth De Baets
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:10
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  26. The Pliocene–Pleistocene transition in the Neotropics is poorly understood despite the major climatic changes that occurred at the onset of the Quaternary. The San Gregorio Formation, the younger unit of the U...

    Authors: Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Rodolfo Sánchez, Torsten M. Scheyer, Juan D. Carrillo, Massimo Delfino, Georgios L. Georgalis, Leonardo Kerber, Damián Ruiz-Ramoni, José L. O. Birindelli, Edwin-Alberto Cadena, Aldo F. Rincón, Martin Chavez-Hoffmeister, Alfredo A. Carlini, Mónica R. Carvalho, Raúl Trejos-Tamayo, Felipe Vallejo…
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:9
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  27. The standard reconstruction of species of Orbitoides d’Orbigny into a single lineage during the late Santonian to the end of the Maastrichtian is based upon morphometric data from Western Europe. An irreversible ...

    Authors: Ercan Özcan, Ali Osman Yücel, Rita Catanzariti, Sibel Kayğılı, Aral I. Okay, Michael D. Simmons, Johannes Pignatti, İftikhar Ahmed Abbasi and Ümitcan Erbil
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:8
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  28. Exceptional fossil preservation is required to conserve soft-bodied fossils and even more so to conserve their behaviour. Here, we describe a fossil of a co-occurrence of representatives of two different octob...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Günter Schweigert, Dirk Fuchs and Kenneth De Baets
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:7
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  29. The dense Miocene record of cetaceans is known from localities along the coasts of all continents, mostly in the northern Atlantic or the eastern Pacific regions, but Antarctica. Fossils from the Caribbean reg...

    Authors: Aldo Benites-Palomino, Andres E. Reyes-Cespedes, Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández, Rodolfo Sánchez, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño and Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:6
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  30. Over the last 25 years, researchers, mostly paleontologists, have developed a system of rank-free, phylogenetically defined names for the primary clades of turtles. As these names are not considered establishe...

    Authors: Walter G. Joyce, Jérémy Anquetin, Edwin-Alberto Cadena, Julien Claude, Igor G. Danilov, Serjoscha W. Evers, Gabriel S. Ferreira, Andrew D. Gentry, Georgios L. Georgalis, Tyler R. Lyson, Adán Pérez-García, Márton Rabi, Juliana Sterli, Natasha S. Vitek and James F. Parham
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:5
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  31. Two [1, 2] articles in volume 139 of the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology published with an incorrect article number, this error was caused by a technical problem during publication. This correction article is to p...

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    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:4
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    The original article was published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:8

    The original article was published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:7

  32. Ammonoid soft parts have been rarely described. Here, we document the soft parts of a perisphinctid ammonite from the early Tithonian of Wintershof near Eichstätt (Germany). This exceptional preservation was e...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Günter Schweigert, Helmut Tischlinger and Helmut Pochmann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:3
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  33. For the understanding of the evolution of jawed vertebrates and jaws and teeth, ‘placoderms’ are crucial as they exhibit an impressive morphological disparity associated with the early stages of this process. ...

    Authors: Melina Jobbins, Martin Rücklin, Thodoris Argyriou and Christian Klug
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:2
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  35. Due to the lower fossilization potential of chitin, non-mineralized cephalopod jaws and arm hooks are much more rarely preserved as fossils than the calcitic lower jaws of ammonites or the calcitized jaw appar...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Donald Davesne, Dirk Fuchs and Thodoris Argyriou
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:9
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  36. In the central Jura Mountains (Western Switzerland), the Urgonien Jaune (UJ) facies with the Marnes de la Russille beds (MRu) have provided very rich nannofloras associated with very rare Tethyan ammonites. A ...

    Authors: Eric De Kaenel, Pierre-Olivier Mojon and Antoine Pictet
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:6
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  37. We describe a well-preserved South American Lamini partial skeleton (PIMUZ A/V 4165) from the Ensenadan (~ 1.95–1.77 to 0.4 Mya) of Argentina. The specimen is comprised of a nearly complete skull and mandible ...

    Authors: Sinéad Lynch, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra and Ana Balcarcel
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:8
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:4

  38. Although belemnite rostra can be quite abundant in Jurassic and Cretaceous strata, the record of belemnite jaws was limited to a few specimens from Germany and Russia. Here, we describe and figure three cephal...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Walter Etter, René Hoffmann, Dirk Fuchs and Kenneth De Baets
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:7
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:4

  39. The plant fossil record from Lower Triassic sedimentary successions of the Western USA is extremely meager. In this study, samples from a drill core taken near Georgetown, Idaho, were analyzed for their palyno...

    Authors: Elke Schneebeli-Hermann, Borhan Bagherpour, Torsten Vennemann, Marc Leu and Hugo Bucher
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:5
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  40. In the Acknowledgements in the original published article [Georgalis et al. 2020], we thanked by mistake Antonella Cinzia Marra as follows: “We thank […] A.C. Marra (Messina) for discussion and field work at C...

    Authors: Georgios L. Georgalis, Gianni Insacco, Lorenzo Rook, Filippo Spadola and Massimo Delfino
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:4
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    The original article was published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:1

  43. We here describe turtle remains from the late Miocene (Tortonian) of Cessaniti (Calabria, southern Italy), an area that recently has been palaeogeographically reconstructed as being, at that time of the Neogen...

    Authors: Georgios L. Georgalis, Gianni Insacco, Lorenzo Rook, Filippo Spadola and Massimo Delfino
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:1
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:4

  44. Here, we describe part of a large-bodied macrophagous plesiosaur jaw from the lower Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) Passwang Formation near Arisdorf in the Basel-Land canton of Switzerland. The specimen preserves t...

    Authors: Sven Sachs, Christian Klug and Benjamin P. Kear
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:200
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  46. A hardground surface in the middle Silurian (Wenlock: Sheinwoodian) Massie Formation is well exposed at the New Point stone quarry in Napoleon, southeastern Indiana, USA, where it is densely encrusted by pelma...

    Authors: James R. Thomka and Carlton E. Brett
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:197
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  47. Armored catfishes are grouped within the clade Loricariidae. They are typically Brazilian freshwater fishes that show a high taxonomic diversity in South America and are distributed from Costa Rica to Buenos A...

    Authors: Sergio Bogan and Federico Agnolin
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:196
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  48. Crinoids are uncommon fossils in the Cenozoic. This scarcity means that even disarticulated elements are of note. Two species of the isocrinine Isselicrinus Rovereto are described from their disarticulated column...

    Authors: Stephen K. Donovan, Sven N. Nielsen, J. Velez-Juarbe and Roger W. Portell
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:195
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  50. The Antilles include over 100 islands, each with a rock record that embraces different slices of the stratigraphic succession; this is probably the most beguiling geological quality of the region. Both authors...

    Authors: Stephen K. Donovan and Roger W. Portell
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:181
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