A better understanding the functioning of Earth System in the context of past climatic
upheavals is essential for predictions about the fate of the diversity of life and the future of …

Background† Saurichthyiformes were a successful group of latest Permian–Middle Jurassic
predatory actinopterygian fishes and constituted important, widely-distributed components of …

Here we describe a new, previously unrecognized elasmobranch microfossil assemblage
consisting of isolated dental material from late Pliensbachian marginal marine, near-shore …

A re-examination of the early Toarcian fish fossils preserved in public paleontological
collections in Luxembourg revealed 70 specimens of large Toarcian pachycormid fish with …

The lacustrine coal deposits at Nýřany, Czech Republic, yielded a diversified vertebrate
assemblage of the Middle Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) age, represented by the remains of …

ABSTRACT A new genus and species of pycnodontiform fishes, Grimmenodon aureum,
from marginal marine, marine-brackish lower Toarcian (Harpoceras exaratum ammonite …

The diets and feeding strategies of pterosaurs remain a poorly known although speculatively
debated topic in vertebrate paleontology. Fossilized gut contents, which offer a crucial direct …

An articulated and mostly complete skull roof of the enigmatic Early Jurassic chondrosteid
fish,† Gyrosteus mirabilis Woodward ex Agassiz is described from the Whitby Mudstone …

The non-neopterygian group† Coccolepididae, a moderately diverse predominantly
freshwater family, remains an imperfectly known Mesozoic group of actinopterygians …

The postcranial axial skeleton of actinopterygian fishes is typically divided into three
regions:(1) an anterior abdominal region,(2) a posterior caudal region and (3) those …