Phenological analysis of the Last Glacial vertebrates from the territory of Moravia (the Czech Republic) – Continuity and change in faunistic communities Rudolf Musil Due to the vertical zonality of the studied area, its environment varied greatly over a relatively short distance within the same time span. It is possible to distinguish the following different types of environment: (1) Alluvial floodplains around larger water flows. I assume in the Last Glacial…
A practical and historical perspective on the how and why of whitening fossil specimens and casts as a precursor to their photography Ronald L. Parsley, Mary H. Lawson, †John Pojeta , Jr. Whitening fossils and casts to enhance photographic detail has evolved from the early twentieth century in step with advances in photography in both film and digital technologies. Whitening began with clouds of NH4OH and HCl being blown together to form a fine white coating of NH4Cl. The wet method…
Actinopterygians of the Permian locality Buxières-les-Mines (Bourbon-l’Archambault Basin, France) and their relationship to other early actinopterygians Stanislav Štamberg Actinopterygians from the large opencast coal mine in the vicinity of the village of Buxières-les-Mines (Bourbonl’Archambault Basin, Allier, France) are revisited and redescribed based on newly studied specimens. The understanding of the anatomy of Progyrolepis heyleri POPLIN, 1999, originally…
Review of the late Oligocene flora of Matrý near Sebuzín (České středohoří Mts., the Czech Republic) Zlatko Kvaček, Vasilis Teodoridis, Miroslav Radoň The Oligocene palaeontological locality on Matrý Hill near Sebuzín in the České středohoří Mts., North Bohemia, belongs to the Děčín Formation and is dated to 30.8–24.7 Ma according to the regional stratigraphy. It has yielded, in addition to insects from the Heteroptera group, a fossil bee Apis…
Some conifers from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian – early Albian) of Catefica, Lusitanian Basin, western Portugal Mário Miguel Mendes, Pedro Dinis, Jiří Kvaček Several mesofossil floras discovered in the Early Cretaceous rocks from the Lusitanian Basin of western Portugal comprise numerous well-preserved conifer remains. Here we report the occurrence of four conifer types in the mesofossil flora from the Catefica locality, about 4 km south of Torres Vedras in…
Plant diversity of the mid Silurian (lower Wenlock, Sheinwoodian) terrestrial vegetation preserved in marine sediments from the Barrandian area, the Czech Republic Milan Libertín , Jiří Kvaček, Jiří Bek, Petr Štorch Plant mega- and microfossils are described from the middle Sheinwoodian of the Barrandian area. The material comes from the Loděnice locality and the same horizon as the earliest unequivocal land plant, Cooksonia barrandei LIBERTÍN, J.KVAČEK, BEK, ŽÁRSKÝ et ŠTORCH. Its age (432 Myr) is inferred from…
Epidermal anatomy of Glyptostrobus europaeus (BRONGN.) UNGER from the Late Oligocene of the Westerwald (Rhineland-Palatinate, W-Germany) Dieter Uhl, Pia S. Krüger, Michael Wuttke Details of the epidermal anatomy of Glyptostrobus europaeus (BRONGN.) UNGER from the Late Oligocene locality Norken in the Westerwald (Rhineland-Palatinate, W-Germany) are documented and described by means of scanning electron microscopy of in situ cuticles. The taxon had a wide distribution over…
