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  1. The natural history of the nautilid genus Nautilus, composed of a controversial number of extinct and extant species, has been the subject of scientific scrutiny for centuries. While a great research effort last...

    Authors: Peter Ward, Frederick Dooley and Gregory Jeff Barord
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2016 135:112
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  2. Spath (1931) described five genera namely Sivajiceras Spath, Obtusicostites Buckman, Hubertoceras Spath, Kinkeliniceras Buckman and Cutchisphinctes Spath from the Upper Bathonian and entire Callovian of Kutch, we...

    Authors: Rakhi Dutta and Subhendu Bardhan
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 135:101
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  4. Plesioteuthis is a coleoid rather well known from the classical Fossillagerstätten of southern Germany (Solnhofen–Eichstätt region, Nusplingen). Here, we present two new specimens that di...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Dirk Fuchs, Günter Schweigert, Martin Röper and Helmut Tischlinger
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:93
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  7. Retrochoanitic septal necks represent the primitive condition in the Ammonoidea. In this study, we examine the morphology of the septal siphuncular complex of specimens of Agoniatites van...

    Authors: Susan M. Klofak and Neil H. Landman
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:92
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  9. Methane seeps in the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale of the U.S. Western interior contain a rich fauna including ammonites (Baculites, Hoploscaphites, Didymoceras, Placenticeras, Solenoceras), bivalves (Lucina), g...

    Authors: J. Kirk Cochran, Neil H. Landman, Neal L. Larson, Kimberly C. Meehan, Matthew Garb and Jamie Brezina
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:87
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  10. The evolutionary process through which the siphonal zone of the cuttlebone of Sepia replaced the tubular siphuncle seen in other shelled cephalopods is poorly understood. Recently, porous connecting stripes, inte...

    Authors: Larisa A. Doguzhaeva and Elena Dunca
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:85
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  11. Ammonites and belemnites are among the most celebrated invertebrate fossils, and both groups played a crucial role in the early history of palaeontology. This article gives an overview of the sometimes twisted...

    Authors: Walter Etter
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:91
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  13. One of the most common modes of preservation of ammonites in the Upper Cretaceous US Western Interior is in concretions. We examine an accumulation of ammonites from a single concretion in the lower Maastricht...

    Authors: Neil H. Landman, Joyce C. Grier, James W. Grier, J. Kirk Cochran and Susan M. Klofak
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:84
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  16. The occurrence of statoliths within the Jurassic succession of south-west England and other parts of Europe is reviewed. Five ‘morphospecies’ have been identified, ranging in age from Hettangian to Kimmeridgia...

    Authors: Malcolm B. Hart, Malcolm R. Clarke, Alex De Jonghe, Gregory D. Price, Kevin N. Page and Christopher W. Smart
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:80
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  18. In the latest of a series of comments on Donovan’s research papers on the geology of Jamaica, Mitchell disagrees with van den Ende and Donovan’s lithostratigraphic assignment of the Thornton echinoid site, and...

    Authors: Stephen K. Donovan and Conrad van den Ende
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:79
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  19. The Neogene sedimentary fill of the Cocinetas Basin in northern Colombia preserves a rich record of marine invertebrates and can be analyzed in the context of a high-resolution stratigraphy and excellent chron...

    Authors: Austin J. W. Hendy, Douglas S. Jones, Federico Moreno, Vladimir Zapata and Carlos Jaramillo
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:74
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  20. Over the past four years, we have conducted extensive fieldwork in the Cocinetas Basin of La Guajira Peninsula, including geological mapping, stratigraphic descriptions, and exhaustive paleontological collecti...

    Authors: C. Jaramillo, F. Moreno, A. J. W. Hendy, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra and Daniel Marty
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:75
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  21. Analyses of distances between succeeding septa throughout ontogeny of modern coleoids Sepiella japonica and Spirula spirula reveal that the first several septa (until ca. 6th–8th septa in Sepiella japonica and un...

    Authors: Ayaka Yamaguchi, Yuichiro Kumada, Andrea C. Alfaro and Ryoji Wani
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:78
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  23. van den Ende and Donovan (2015: “Urchins on the edge: an echinoid fauna with a mixed environmental signal from the Eocene of Jamaica” Swiss J. Palaeontol. doi:

    Authors: Simon F. Mitchell
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:77
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  25. An echinoid fauna from the Early–Middle Eocene of Jamaica has yielded six species of echinoid: the phymosomatoid Acanthechinus peloria (Arnold and Clark); the oligopygoid Oligopygus sp.; the clypeasteroids Fibula...

    Authors: Conrad van den Ende and Stephen K. Donovan
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:72
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  26. The Cocinetas Basin of Colombia provides a valuable window into the geological and paleontological history of northern South America during the Neogene. Two major findings provide new insights into the Neogen...

    Authors: F. Moreno, A. J. W. Hendy, L. Quiroz, N. Hoyos, D. S. Jones, V. Zapata, S. Zapata, G. A. Ballen, E. Cadena, A. L. Cárdenas, J. D. Carrillo-Briceño, J. D. Carrillo, D. Delgado-Sierra, J. Escobar, J. I. Martínez, C. Martínez…
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:71
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  27. The diversity of the order Cingulata is much higher in the fossil record than that represented by the extant species. While pampatheres, one of its extinct groups, are superficially similar to armadillos, rec...

    Authors: P. Sebastián Tambusso and Richard A. Fariña
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2015 134:70
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  28. Fossil material from 90 fossil localities, mostly paleokarstic, has been gathered together to study western European bat evolution and diversity from the middle Eocene (~44 Ma) to the early late Oligocene (~29...

    Authors: Elodie Maitre
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2014 133:69
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  29. Analyzing and interpreting life history data (e.g., aging and longevity, age at sexual maturity) are fundamental in many paleontological studies. In the case of extant and fossil fishes, otoliths, and to a les...

    Authors: Torsten M. Scheyer, Leonhard Schmid, Heinz Furrer and Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2014 133:68
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  31. The Early Miocene Pirabas Formation represents extensive carbonate and siliciclastic belts deposited in marine coastal environments along the eastern Amazon coast. This formation was studied in its palynologic...

    Authors: Orangel Aguilera, José Tasso Felix Guimarães and Heloisa Moraes-Santos
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2014 133:66
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    The original article was published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:s13358-013-0051-5

  33. During the Cenozoic paucituberculatans were much more diverse taxonomically and ecomorphologically than the three extant genera of shrew-like marsupials. Among paucituberculatans, palaeothentids were abundant ...

    Authors: Analia M. Forasiepi, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Thomas Schmelzle, Sandrine Ladevèze and Richard F. Kay
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2014 133:63
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  34. Coral reef terraces are investigated in five localities around Marsa Alam on the Egyptian Red Sea Coast. The reefal limestones and the alternating terrigenous clastics are assigned to the Pleistocene Samadai F...

    Authors: Mahmoud A. Kora, Salah N. Ayyad and Heba M. El-Desouky
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2014 133:65
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  37. The extent of propodal tuberculation is considered taxonomically important for species of the callianassid genus Glypturus (Decapoda: Axiidea). Based on cheliped material from the Middle-Late Miocene of Iran, Gly...

    Authors: Matúš Hyžný, Ali Bahrami, Adiël A. Klompmaker, Mehdi Yazdi, Roger W. Portell and Christian Neumann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:60
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  39. Intensive sampling of the lower portion of the Thaynes and Moenkopi Groups (Lower Triassic) at separate localities within the Confusion Range, Pahvant Range, Mineral Mountains, Star Range, Kanarraville, Cedar ...

    Authors: Arnaud Brayard, Kevin G. Bylund, James F. Jenks, Daniel A. Stephen, Nicolas Olivier, Gilles Escarguel, Emmanuel Fara and Emmanuelle Vennin
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:58
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  41. Lower Permian vertebrates from both terrestrial and aquatic organisms have been collected from Archer County, Texas, for over a century. These include preserved shark cartilage and spiral bromalites presumed t...

    Authors: Christen D. Shelton
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:57
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  42. The small rotaliids (Foraminiferida) found in Cenomanian rock thin sections of Oman and Morocco are diversified. A continuum of morphotypes is divided within 3 taxa described as subspecies of Rotorbinella mesogee...

    Authors: André Piuz and Christian Meister
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:54
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  43. Two facies are recognized in the Taquaral Member, base of the Artinskian Irati Formation, Parana Basin, Brazil: (1) The sandstone and conglomerate facies, mostly present in the lower part of the member, is thi...

    Authors: Artur Chahud and Setembrino Petri
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:55
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  45. Ariidae catfish are described from the early Miocene Pirabas Formation in northeastern Brazil, Cantaure and Castillo formations in northwestern Venezuela, and Castilletes Formation in North Colombia. A skull f...

    Authors: Orangel Antonio Aguilera, Heloisa Moraes-Santos, Sue Costa, Fumio Ohe, Carlos Jaramillo and Afonso Nogueira
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:52
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  46. The Early Miocene Pirabas Formation represents extensive carbonate and siliciclastic belts deposited in marine coastal environments along the Eastern Amazon coast. This Formation was studied in its palynologic...

    Authors: Orangel Aguilera, José Tasso Felix Guimarães and Heloisa Moraes-Santos
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:51
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2014 133:s13358-014-0066-6

  47. On Aferdou El Mrakib, a large reef mound in the Maïder region (Anti-Atlas, Morocco), thick-shelled gypidulids of two genera are locally very abundant. Like Stringocephalus in the shallow water limestone formation...

    Authors: Lorena Tessitore, Mena Schemm-Gregory, Dieter Korn, Ferdinand R. W. P. Wild, Carole Naglik and Christian Klug
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:50
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  48. A new collection of tests of the Chalk (Late Cretaceous) holasteroid echinoid Echinocorys ex gr. scutata Leske, occurring as clasts on the beach between Overstrand and Cromer, north Norfolk, England, show a range...

    Authors: Stephen K. Donovan
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2013 132:49
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