Fish and crab coprolites from the latest Triassic of the UK: From Buckland to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution

M Cueille, E Green, CJ Duffin, C Hildebrandt… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - Elsevier
Coprolites from the Rhaetian bone beds in south-west England can be assigned to
crustaceans and fishes. Here, we report crustacean microcoprolites, including …

Rise and fall of† Pycnodontiformes: Diversity, competition and extinction of a successful fish clade

JJ Cawley, G Marramà, G Carnevale… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract† Pycnodontiformes was a successful lineage of primarily marine fishes that broadly
diversified during the Mesozoic. They possessed a wide variety of body shapes and were …

Fossilized leftover falls as sources of palaeoecological data: A 'pabulite'comprising a crustacean, a belemnite and a vertebrate from the Early Jurassic Posidonia …

C Klug, G Schweigert, R Hoffmann, R Weis… - Swiss Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Especially in Lagerstätten with exceptionally preserved fossils, we can sometimes recognize
fossilized remains of meals of animals. We suggest the term leftover fall for the event and the …

The oldest Gondwanan record of the extinct durophagous hybodontiform chondrichthyan, Strophodus from the Bajocian of Morocco

S Stumpf, C Kettler, R Kindlimann, G Cuny… - Swiss Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Strophodus is a speciose and geographically widespread taxon of large durophagous
hybodontiform chondrichthyan, with a stratigraphic range extending from Middle Triassic to …

Actinopterygian and chondrichthyan ichthyoliths reveal enhanced cosmopolitanism in Late Triassic marine ecosystems

LS Tackett, D Zierer, AC Clement - Historical Biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Late Triassic was a time of major evolutionary transition for marine
vertebrates, with the emergence of important new clades and the expansion of durophagy …

Comments on the cranial and pectoral girdle osteology of Lepidotes gigas (Actinopterygii, Lepisosteiformes) from the Lower Jurassic (lower Toarcian) of Germany

D Thies - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A transfer-prepared specimen of Lepidotes (Actinopterygii, Lepisosteiformes)
from the Posidonia Shale Formation of south Germany is tentatively identified specifically as …

A new lepisosteiform neopterygian (Actinopterygii) from the lower Toarcian Grimmen Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, Germany

D Thies, K Stevens, J Ansorge - PalZ, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Lower Jurassic (lower Toarcian) Grimmen Formation (formerly known as"
Green Series") of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania (Northeast Germany) yielded two …

Palaeobiological and geochemical aspects of reptilian coprolites from a Maastrichtian Deccan volcano-sedimentary intertrappean deposit of central India

VV Kapur, R Sagar, K Kumar, AS Chaddha… - Ichnos, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Cretaceous-Paleogene coprolite (fossilized faecal matter) records are significant in terms of
providing direct palaeobiological evidence (from inclusions) in order to understand the diet …

First record of Gyrosteus mirabilis (Actinopterygii, Chondrosteidae) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of the Baltic region

JJ Hornung, S Sachs - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
An isolated hyomandibula from a lower Toarcian carbonate concretion of the Ahrensburg
erratics assemblage (Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany) represents the first record of a …