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Considerations on the Portuguese Sirenia (Mammalia) fossil record
Marine mammals of the Order Sirenia are good palaeoenvironmental proxies in paleontological studies, due to their specific feeding and habitat...
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The early fossil record of Caturoidea (Halecomorphi: Amiiformes): biogeographic implications
Caturoidea is a clade of Mesozoic predatory ray-finned fishes which lived mainly in the Jurassic. The clade has a few records in the earliest...
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First Asian fossil record of Platydictya (Amblystegiaceae) from the lower Miocene and its paleoenvironmental significance
Mosses form a diverse land plant group in modern vegetation but have rarely showed up in the fossil record compared with vascular plants. Here, we...
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The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America
Anurans, along with urodeles and caecilians are the extant representatives of the clade Lissamphibia. Nowadays, lissamphibians are widely distributed...
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First fossil record of Varanus (Reptilia, Squamata) from Switzerland and the earliest occurrences of the genus in Europe
We here describe two isolated fossil teeth from the Early Miocene (MN 4) of Hüenerbach, Switzerland. The material is tentatively referred to Varanus ,...
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The First Fossil Record of Coryphoid Palm from Siwalik Strata (Middle Miocene) of Darjeeling Foothills of Eastern Himalaya
AbstractAlthough coryphoid fossil palms are well-known from the Upper Cretaceous sediments of India, there is no fossil evidence of coryphoid palms...
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The Hominin Fossil Record from Greece
Human paleontology is a relatively limited field, given that human fossil remains tend to be extremely rare. Furthermore, it differs from...
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Patterns of Competitive Exclusion in the Mammalian Fossil Record
Due to recentRecent common ancestry, species belonging to the same genus are expected to be more similar with respect to their phenotype, and hence...
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The Fossil Record of Crocodylians (Reptilia: Crocodylia) in Greece
The fossil record of crocodylians from Greece is reviewed herein. Currently absent from the extant herpetofauna of the country (and the whole...
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The Fossil Record of Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) in Greece
The nowadays hyper-diverse clade of Actinopterygii (ray-finned bony fishes) is characterized by a long evolutionary history and an extremely rich...
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The Fossil Record of Tapirs (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) in Greece
Tapirs (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) are poorly represented in the fossil record of Greece, known only by three occurrences. The only...
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The Fossil Record of Lizards and Snakes (Reptilia: Squamata) in Greece
The fossil record of squamates (i.e. lizards and snakes) from Greece is reviewed herein. Fossil remains of lizards and snakes in Greece date as back...
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The Fossil Record of Mephitids (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mephitidae) in Greece
The mephitids are carnivoran family that includes the extant skunks, stink badgers, and the extinct related forms. The family appears in the fossil...
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The Fossil Record of Mustelids (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mustelidae) in Greece
The mustelids constitute a quite rich and diversified family of carnivorans, including a variety of modern taxa (e.g., badgers, otters, minks) and...
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Fossil Primate Teeth as an Archive for High Resolution Ontogenic, Dietary and Palaeoclimate Record
Rhythmic incremental growth of daily or longer duration is faithfully recorded in the tooth enamel of all the mammals including those of primates....
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The Fossil Record of Rodents (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Greece
Rodents (Mammalia: Rodentia) constitute today the mammalian order with the highest species diversity and the largest geographical distribution, since...
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The Fossil Record of Turtles and Tortoises (Reptilia: Testudines) in Greece
Turtles are among the most common and easily identifiable elements of the vertebrate fossil record, especially in continental deposits. In Greece,...
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The Fossil Record of Amphibians (Amphibia: Urodela and Anura) in Greece
The oldest fossil amphibians from Greece are early Miocene in age, and therefore, only the last few millions of years of amphibian evolution are...
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The Fossil Record of Felids (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) in Greece
The felidae constitutes a large carnivoran family with several living and fossil species, which appeared at the end of the Oligocene and dispersed...
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The Fossil Record of Suoids (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Suoidae) in Greece
Extant suids are represented today in the Greek fauna only by the wild boar Sus scrofa, whose local fossil record extends back to the beginning of...