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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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

    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

  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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

    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:4

  21. 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

    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2021 140:4

  22. 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
  23. 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

    The original article was published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:1

  24. Despite today’s controversy regarding several aspects of his legacy, Swiss-born Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) was one of the most eminent scientists of his time. After his death, Washington-based...

    Authors: Frederik H. Mollen
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:3
  25. 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

    The Correction to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2020 139:4

  26. 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
  27. The most important section of most research papers, which will be read by the widest audience, is the abstract. But abstracts are often written in a hurry after the paper is finished, when the author is in a r...

    Authors: Stephen K. Donovan
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:198
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. Freshwater gobies played an important role in the Miocene paleolakes of central and southeastern Europe. Much data have been gathered from isolated otoliths, but articulated skeletons are relatively rare. Here...

    Authors: Katarina Bradić-Milinović, Harald Ahnelt, Ljupko Rundić and Werner Schwarzhans
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:194
  32. During a fieldtrip of the 10th International Cephalopod Symposium to the Tafilalt (SE Morocco), a fauna with the so far oldest ammonoid of the region was discovered at the top of the basal Emsian Deiroceras Limes...

    Authors: Ralph Thomas Becker, Christian Klug, Till Söte, Sven Hartenfels, Zhor Sarah Aboussalam and Ahmed El Hassani
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:189
  33. In March and April 2018, the 10th International Symposium Cephalopods—Present and Past (ISCPP) was held in Fes, Morocco. Meeting and the post-conference fieldtrip were organized by representatives of the Westf...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Ralph Thomas Becker, Ahmed El Hassani, Kathleen Ritterbush, Dirk Fuchs and Daniel Marty
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:191
  34. High-level classification of the nautiloid cephalopods has been largely neglected since the publication of the Russian and American treatises in the early 1960s. Although there is broad general agreement among...

    Authors: Andy H. King and David H. Evans
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:186
  35. One of the best-known faunal assemblages that characterizes the past ecosystems from South America comes from the Santa Cruz Formation in Argentina. This assemblage is formed by an endemic fauna, which include...

    Authors: Daniel Zurita-Altamirano, Eric Buffetaut, Analía M. Forasiepi, Alejandro Kramarz, Juan D. Carrillo, Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández, Alfredo A. Carlini, Torsten M. Scheyer and Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:185
  36. The species Chieseiceras dolomiticum n. sp. along with other ammonoid species (Latemarites latemarensis, Halilucites rusticus) helps constraining the age of the cyclic platform interior portion at Latemar (Dolomi...

    Authors: Peter Brack and Hans Rieber
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2019 138:184
  37. 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
  38. A wide variety of aquatic vertebrates from fluvio-lacustrine facies of northern South America (Colombia and Venezuela) have been used as unequivocal evidence to support hydrographic connections between western...

    Authors: Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Andrés E. Reyes-Cespedes, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi and Rodolfo Sánchez
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2018 138:180
  39. Two new records of Cenozoic sepiids from the Mediterranean area are described and discussed. While the single, fragmentary specimen from Pliocene (Zanclean) strata in northwestern Italy can only be identified ...

    Authors: Martin Košťák, John W. M. Jagt and Jan Schlögl
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2018 138:179
  40. Two specimens of the Late Mississippian ammonoid cephalopod Metadimorphoceras sp. were recovered from the Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana. This unit was deposited in the lowest part of the Big Snowy Basin, where ...

    Authors: Royal H. Mapes, Neil H. Landman and Christian Klug
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2018 138:176
  41. A Berriasian age planktonic foraminifera assemblage from a section near the village of Krasnoselivka in the Tonas River Basin, Crimea contains Favusella hoterivica (Subbotina), ?Favusella sp., Conoglobigerina gul...

    Authors: F. M. Gradstein, A. Waskowska, L. Kopaevich, D. K. Watkins, H. Friis and J. Pérez Panera
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2018 138:175
  42. Lizards were and still are an important component of the European herpetofauna. The modern European lizard fauna started to set up in the Miocene and a rich fossil record is known from Neogene and Quaternary s...

    Authors: Andrea Villa and Massimo Delfino
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2018 138:172
  43. Accumulations of ammonoid shell fragments have been recovered from the Hangenberg Black Shale (latest Devonian) of the southern Maïder (eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). They are here interpreted as regurgitalites...

    Authors: Christian Klug and Lothar H. Vallon
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2018 138:171

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