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  1. Concretions are an interesting mode of preservation that can occasionally yield fossils with soft tissues. To properly interpret these fossils, an understanding of their fossilization is required. Probabilisti...

    Authors: Farid Saleh, Thomas Clements, Vincent Perrier, Allison C. Daley and Jonathan B. Antcliffe
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:20
  2. Roth’s explorations, the resulting collections many now allocated in La Plata, Zurich, Geneva and Copenhagen, and his significant contributions in geological—especially stratigraphic—and paleontological topics...

    Authors: Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra, Mariano Bond, Marcelo Reguero and Tomás Bartoletti
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:19
  3. Coelacanths form today an impoverished clade of sarcopterygian fishes, which were somewhat more diverse during their evolutionary history, especially in the Triassic. Since the first description of the coelaca...

    Authors: Christophe Ferrante, Heinz Furrer, Rossana Martini and Lionel Cavin
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:18
  4. The fossil vertebrate fauna of Máriahalom contains remains from a wide range of ecologies including terrestrial and aquatic mammals, crocodiles, sharks, and rays among others. All these were found mixed in mol...

    Authors: László Kocsis, Márton Rabi, Alex Ulianov, Anna Cipriani, Izabella M. Farkas and Gábor Botfalvai
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:17
  5. Ever since the discovery of the first remains of Macrauchenia patachonica by Charles Darwin in 1834, this taxon has puzzled researchers with its peculiar anatomy. Being the best-known member of the family Macrauc...

    Authors: Hans P. Püschel and Agustín G. Martinelli
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:16
  6. Here, we present the first bone histological and microanatomical study of thalattosaurians, an enigmatic group among Triassic marine reptiles. Two taxa of thalattosaurians, the askeptosauroid Askeptosaurus italic...

    Authors: N. Klein, P. M. Sander, J. Liu, P. Druckenmiller, E. T. Metz, N. P. Kelley and T. M. Scheyer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:15
  7. With their odd cranial features, glyptodonts, closely related to extant armadillos, are a highly diverse group of the South American megafauna. Doedicurus, Glyptodon, Panochthus, and Neosclerocalyptus were presen...

    Authors: Zoe M. Christen, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra and Kévin Le Verger
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:14
  8. Nearctic ungulates such as artiodactyls, perissodactyls, and proboscideans arrived in South America during the Great American Biotic Interchange. Among them are camelids, cervids, tayassuids, equids, tapirids ...

    Authors: Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Raúl I. Vezzosi, Keesha M. Ming, Zoe M. Christen, Dimila Mothé, Damián Ruiz-Ramoni and Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:12
  9. Santiago Roth (1850–1924) was a naturalist that collected and sold fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina) in Europe. Much of the specimens collected by Roth are hosted at the Paläontologisches Institut un...

    Authors: Damián Ruiz-Ramoni, Jorge D. Carrillo‑Briceno, Damian Voglino and Francisco Juan Prevosti
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:11
  10. Ophiuroids, also known as brittle stars, are an important component of modern marine benthos, yet their fossil record is still poorly understood. Here, we describe new finds of ophiuroids from the upper Sinemu...

    Authors: Ben Thuy, Laura Piñuela and José Carlos García-Ramos
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:10
  11. Here we report new data on the Upper Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Northern Calcarous Alps of Lower Austria. We examined new fossil material obtained from bed-by-bed collections of the well-lamin...

    Authors: Alexander Lukeneder and Petra Lukeneder
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:9
  12. From the upper Maastrichtian (Tarbur Fm.) and Paleocene of Iran, 20 species of scleractinian corals belonging to 17 genera and 14 families, and one species of the octocoral Heliopora are newly recorded. Furthermo...

    Authors: Rosemarie C. Baron-Szabo, Felix Schlagintweit and Koorosh Rashidi
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:7
  13. Fossils of Cretaceous sea turtles adapted to an open marine lifestyle remain rare finds to date. Furthermore, the relationships between extant sea turtles, chelonioids, and other Mesozoic marine turtles are st...

    Authors: Torsten M. Scheyer, Gustavo R. Oliveira, Pedro S. R. Romano, Dylan Bastiaans, Lisa Falco, Gabriel S. Ferreira and Márton Rabi
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:6
  14. Strophodus is a speciose and geographically widespread taxon of large durophagous hybodontiform chondrichthyan, with a stratigraphic range extending from Middle Triassic to the Early Cretaceous. Here, we describe...

    Authors: Sebastian Stumpf, Christoph Kettler, René Kindlimann, Gilles Cuny and Jürgen Kriwet
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:5
  15. The coquina on the banks of the Oued Beth in the Rharb Basin in northwestern Morocco has long been known to be exceptionally rich in fossils. The stratigraphic position ranging from the Late Miocene to the Pli...

    Authors: Werner Schwarzhans
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:4
  16. Throughout the Silurian and Devonian, cartilaginous fish successively evolved their specialized skeletal and dental characteristics, and increasingly refined their sensory systems. The Late Devonian shark taxon M...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Michael Coates, Linda Frey, Merle Greif, Melina Jobbins, Alexander Pohle, Abdelouahed Lagnaoui, Wahiba Bel Haouz and Michal Ginter
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:2
  17. Trionychid (softshell) turtles have a peculiar bauplan, which includes shell reductions and cranial elongation. Despite a rich fossil record dating back to the Early Cretaceous, the evolutionary origin of the ...

    Authors: Serjoscha W. Evers, Kimberley E. J. Chapelle and Walter G. Joyce
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2023 142:1
  18. The Smithian–Spathian boundary (SSB) crisis played a prominent role in resetting the evolution and diversity of the nekton (ammonoids and conodonts) during the Early Triassic recovery. The late Smithian nekton...

    Authors: Marc Leu, Hugo Bucher, Torsten Vennemann, Borhan Bagherpour, Cheng Ji, Morgane Brosse and Nicolas Goudemand
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:19
  19. The Medobory Hills barrier reef in western Ukraine represents a unique environment during the late Badenian that existed for a relatively brief time. Here, we describe 170 specimens of otoliths and scarce skel...

    Authors: Werner Schwarzhans, Oleksandr Klots, Tamara Ryabokon and Oleksandr Kovalchuk
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:18
  20. Proganochelys quenstedtii represents the best-known stem turtle from the Late Triassic, with gross anatomical and internal descriptions of the shell, postcranial bones and skull based on several well-preserved sp...

    Authors: Torsten M. Scheyer, Nicole Klein, Serjoscha W. Evers, Anna-Katharina Mautner and Ben Pabst
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:17
  21. Karl Mayer (later Karl Mayer-Eymar, 1826–1906) was a stratigrapher and palaeontologist who assembled during his long career a collection of Cenozoic (then “Tertiary”) mollusks that numbers more than 500′000 sp...

    Authors: Walter Etter
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:16
  22. Coelacanths form a clade of sarcopterygian fish represented today by a single genus, Latimeria. The fossil record of the group, which dates back to the Early Devonian, is sparse. In Switzerland, only Triassic sit...

    Authors: Christophe Ferrante, Ursula Menkveld-Gfeller and Lionel Cavin
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:15
  23. The Mississippian (Tournaisian–Visean) of the Jbel Asdaf area in the Tisdafine Basin (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco) has been, for the first time, the subject of a palynological study. This work aims first to de...

    Authors: Amine Talih, Daniel Ţabără, Hamid Slimani, Mohamed Saadi, Abdelouahed Benmlih and Salma Aboutofail
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:14
  24. The early Eocene greenhouse Earth experienced several transient global warming events, indicated by sharp negative excursions in the stable isotope ratios of carbon and oxygen. A huge amount of CO2, enriched with...

    Authors: Aniket Mitra, Rakhi Dutta and Kalyan Halder
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:13
  25. The Alpine Prosanto Formation (Middle Triassic) cropping out in the Ducan region in eastern Switzerland has yielded a rich fish and reptile fauna. Here, we present new pachypleurosaur remains from the upper pa...

    Authors: Nicole Klein, Heinz Furrer, Iris Ehrbar, Marta Torres Ladeira, Henning Richter and Torsten M. Scheyer
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:12
  26. The Muaco and Taima-Taima sites, in Falcón State of northwestern Venezuela, are among the earliest sites of human occupation in South America containing artifacts associated with preserved megafaunal remains a...

    Authors: Alfredo A. Carlini, Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Arturo Jaimes, Orangel Aguilera, Alfredo E. Zurita, José Iriarte and Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:11
  27. Soft-tissue preservation in molluscs is generally rare, particularly in bivalves and gastropods. Here, we report a three-dimensionally preserved specimen of the limid Acesta clypeiformis from the Cenomanian of Fr...

    Authors: Christian Klug, Liane Hüne, Rosemarie Roth and Michael Hautmann
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:10
  28. A new ichnotaxonomic name, Transexcrementum cuniculus, is applied to tubular (cylindrical) tunnelings in coprolites. The type series of T. cuniculus consists of burrowed vertebrate (probably crocodilian) coprolit...

    Authors: Stephen J. Godfrey and Alberto Collareta
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:9
  29. The generic status of the species referred to Protadelomys has long been problematic. Most Protadelomys species are now considered paraphyletic, except for the type species P. cartieri and for P. lugdunensis. Her...

    Authors: Monique Vianey-Liaud and Lionel Hautier
    Citation: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 2022 141:8
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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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