The Bolca Lagerstätten: shallow marine life in the Eocene

M Friedman, G Carnevale - Journal of the Geological Society, 2018 - lyellcollection.org
The Eocene limestones around the Italian village of Bolca occur in a series of distinct
localities providing a unique snapshot of marine life in the early Cenozoic. Famous for its …

A synoptic review of the Eocene (Ypresian) cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) of the Bolca Konservat-Lagerstätte, Italy

G Marramà, G Carnevale, A Engelbrecht, KM Claeson… - PalZ, 2018 - Springer
Here, we review and discuss the records and taxonomy of the Ypresian (Eocene)
chondrichthyans from the famous Bolca Konservat-Lagerstätte in northeastern Italy. Despite …

Controlled excavations in the Pesciara and Monte Postale sites provide new insights about the palaeoecology and taphonomy of the fish assemblages of the Eocene …

G Marramà, AF Bannikov, JC Tyler, R Zorzin… - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eocene Konservat-Lagerstätte of Bolca, Italy, is famous for the abundance and
exquisite preservation of its fossils. Although the Bolca sites have provided one of the most …

Principal component and discriminant analyses as powerful tools to support taxonomic identification and their use for functional and phylogenetic signal detection of …

G Marramà, J Kriwet - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Identifying isolated teeth of fossil selachians only based on qualitative characters is
sometimes hindered by similarity in their morphology, resulting often in heated taxonomic …

[HTML][HTML] A new cuspidate ptychodontid shark (Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranchii), from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco with comments on tooth functionalities and …

M Amadori, R Kindlimann, E Fornaciari… - Journal of African Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
The first articulated dentition of† Ptychodus from Africa is described herein. The specimen,
likely coming from the Turonian of the Asfla area (Goulmima region, southeastern Morocco) …

Anatomy, relationships and palaeobiogeographic implications of the first Neogene holomorphic stingray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the early Miocene of …

G Marramà, S Klug, J De Vos… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The early Miocene stingray† Trygon vorstmani represented by a single specimen collected
from the fish-bearing limestones of the Tonasa Formation of SW Sulawesi, Indonesia, is …

Offshore marine actinopterygian assemblages from the Maastrichtian–Paleogene of the Pindos Unit in Eurytania, Greece

T Argyriou, D Davesne - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
The fossil record of marine ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) from the time interval
surrounding the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction is scarce at a global scale …

A Rupelian coral reef fish assemblage from the Venetian southern Alps (Berici Hills, NE Italy)

M Giuseppe, L Giusberti, C Giorgio - Rivista Italiana di …, 2022 - research.unipd.it
Here we describe a new bony fish assemblage collected from a fossiliferous outcrop located
in Perarolo, Berici Hills, Venetian southern Alps. The fossiliferous deposits pertain to the …

[PDF][PDF] Redescription of 'Perleidus'(Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the early Triassic of northwestern Madagascar

G Marrama, C Lombardo, A Tintori… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2017 - iris.unito.it
The revision of the material from the Lower Triassic fossil-bearing-nodule levels from
northwestern Madagascar supports the assumption that the genus Perleidus De Alessandri …

An Eocene paraclupeid fish (Teleostei, Ellimmichthyiformes) from Bolca, Italy: the youngest marine record of double‐armoured herrings

G Marramà, AF Bannikov, J Kriwet… - Papers in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A new double‐armoured herring of the clupeomorph order Ellimmichthyiformes,
Eoellimmichthys superstes gen. et sp. nov., is described herein based on a single partially …