11 articles in this issue
TAYEBEH AHMADI, MOHAMMAD DASTANPOUR, MOHAMMAD REZA VAZIRI
Conodont fauna from the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Bahram Formation at the Hur section, north of Kerman, southeast Iran, is dominated by species of Icriodus and Polygnathus. This fauna allowed discrimination of two biointervals from the Lower rhenana Zone ... see more
AYSE ATAKUL-ÖZDEMIR, DEMIR ALTINER, SEVINC ÖZKAN-ALTINER
The Mid-Carboniferous boundary in the Aladað Unit of the Central Taurides, previously delineated on the basis of foraminifers, is now further recognizable on the basis of conodonts. Latest Serpukhovian conodonts are assigned to the Rhachistognathus ... see more
DIETER UHL, RAINER BUTZMANN, THILO C. FISCHER, BARBARA MELLER, EVELYN KUSTATSCHER
For the first time fossil macroscopic remains of charcoal as direct evidence of palaeo-wildfires from the Late Permian Gröden Formation of the Bletterbach-Butterloch area in Northern Italy is described. The charcoal consists of pycnoxylic wood and origina... see more
PIETRO DI STEFANO, CHRISTOPHER MCROBERTS, PIETRO RENDA, ANGELO TRIPODO, ALESSANDRO TORRE, FABIO TORRE
A section of carbonate megabreccias grading upward to deep-water Daonella limestones is described from the locality of Sant’Otiero, near Petralia Sottana, in the Madonie Mountains (Sicily). The megabreccia mainly consists of neritic elements containing da... see more
B. SENOWBARI-DARYAN, F. AMIRHASSANKHANI
This paper describes several chambered hexactinellid sponges, including Casearia iranica n.sp., C. vezvanensis n. sp., C. delijanensis n. sp., Esfahanella magna gen. n. n. sp., and E. parva gen. n. n. sp. from reefs of the Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian)... see more
ALEXANDER W. A. KELLNER, FABIO MARCO DALLA VECCHIA, MAJID MIRZAIE ATAABADI, HELDER DE PAULA SILVA, ERFAN KHOSRAVI
The dinosaur record from Iran includes footprints from the Liassic Ab-e-Haji Formation of Neizar Valley (Kerman Province, central-eastern Iran), a single footprint from the Javaherdeh Formation near Zerab (Alborz Mounts, NE Iran), and skeletal remains fro... see more
RICCARDO CESTARI, ANGELA LAVIANO
Rudist bivalve assemblages and biofacies spanning from the Cenomanian to the Maastrichtian age interval have been detected in ten selected fossiliferous localities of Cilento and western Basilicata (southern Apennines, southern Italy). Their distribution ... see more
ANTONIO CASCELLA, FABRIZIO LIRER, MASSIMO CESARANO, EMILIO CASCIELLO, GERARDO PAPPONE
The present paper deals with the stratigraphic and biostratigraphic study of the middle-late Miocene thrust-top basin deposits of the San Bartolomeo Flysch, exposed north of Matese mountains and analysed during the geological survey of the sheet N° 405 Ca... see more
ALFRED UCHMAN, CLAUDIA CARUSO, MAURIZIO SONNINO
The branched trace fossil Chondrites affinis (Sternberg, 1833), synonymised so far with C. targionii (Brongniart, 1828), has been analyzed in an exceptionally well preserved specimen from the Saraceno Formation (?Upper Cretaceous; ?Eocene-Miocene) in the ... see more
MUHAMMAD AKBAR KHAN, MUHAMMAD AKHTAR, GEORGE ILIOPOULOS, - HINA
Tragulids are the best represented ruminants in the Hasnot outcrops of the Pakistani Middle Siwaliks (Late Miocene). The remains described in this paper comprises predominantly isolated teeth, maxilla and mandible fragments. The specimens can be referred ... see more
DANIELA ESU, SERGEY VALENTINOVICH POPOV
The paper discusses a revised interpretation of the Late Messinian malacofaunas of Piedmont, namely the bivalves of the subfamily Lymnocardiinae (family Cardiidae), which are kept at the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali of Turin and the Museo Civico Ar... see more