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The first detailed description and comparative information is given for the carnivoran fauna from Wölfersheim (Hesse), the only Ruscinian (MN 15) fauna thus far known from Germany. The Carnivora is represented by 31 specimens which belong to the following taxa:Ursus minimus boeckhi n. comb., cf.Pannonictis, Enhydrictis ardea, Baranogale sp.,Mustela plioerminea, andParailurus anglicus. The specimens...
A replacement name,Scotiadiscus nom. nov., is proposed for the Ordovician cyclocystoid genusActinodiscus Smith & Paul, 1982 (Echinodermata). The name was preoccupied byActinodiscus de Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa).
This paper provides the first description and illustration of a bivalve assemblage from the Eggenburgian (Upper Aquitanian/Lower Burdigalian) Ortenburg Marine Sands recovered from a well-core from Straß near Ortenburg (Lower Bavaria, SE Germany).Nucinella dobergensis (Lienenklaus) is recorded new for the Miocene and the Paratethys Sea;Limopsis cf.aurita (Brocchi) is also new to the Paratethys realm...
Three bovid species are present at Dorn-Dürkheim 1. The overwhelmingly abundant species is a boselaphine, Miotragocerus sp., with smaller and less advanced teeth than Tragoportax amalthea from Pikermi, Greece. Miotragocerus was present in the latest middle Miocene and Vallesian of western and central Europe and survived into the Turolian. The other two bovid species remain enigmatic and of uncertain...
Toarctocera, a new gastropod genus of the family Aporrhaidae (Stromboidea) is described for Rostellaria subpunctata. It occurs in Central Europe (S Germany, N Switzerland, and France) and is commonly one of the most abundant gastropods in Late Toarcian/Early Aalenian soft bottom faunas. Toarctocera subpunctata has extremely elongated apertural spines; this has been interpreted as an adaptation to...
Two bryozoan species are described from the Geirud Formation (Upper Devonian/Lower Carboniferous) of Central Alborz (Iran). Trepostome Schulgina mutabilis Troizkaya, 1975 is known from the Upper Devonian (Famennian) of Central Kazakhstan. The new species Ascoporageirudensis n. sp. is the earliest known representative of the rhabdomesine genus Ascopora Trautschold, 1876.
This article is a taxonomic study of the radiolarian species of the superfamilies Eptingiacea and Saturnaliacea occurring in the middle Carnian fauna from the Köseyahya section, near the town of Elbistan, southeastern Turkey. This fauna is characteristic of the Tetraporobrachia haeckeli Radiolarian Zone as defined in Austria and later found also in Turkey and Oman. It comes from an 8 m thick succession...
Graptolites from the Jaeger collection at the Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin, Germany) provide important information on structural details of Silurian (Wenlock–Ludlow) retiolitids as well as for the biostratigraphic and biogeographic distribution of these magnificent graptolites. Species of the genera Cometograptus, Spinograptus and Plectograptus are described from isolated glacial boulder material,...
From its first occurrence in the Middle Triassic to the Late Cretaceous, and thus for almost 200 Ma, Trigonia, type genus of the family Trigoniidae, has been a common constituent of global shallow-marine benthic faunas. The genus is highly over-split at the species level, which hampers sound biostratigraphic, palaeobiogeographic, and palaeoecologic applications. The present study focuses on two closely...
Tetrentactinia barysphaera Foreman, 1963 is a very characteristic Famennian (Upper Devonian) radiolarian species from the Huron Member of the Ohio Shale of North America. Its skeletal structure shows a massive, double-layered shell with main spines constructed from radial beams and concentric bars over a primary ray as the core. The species is common in limestone concretions at the type locality...
A replacement name, Irakimaspis nom. nov., is proposed for the mid-Cambrian redlichiide trilobite Turkestanella Repina, 1975. The name was preoccupied by the tentaculite Turkestanella Klishevich, 1969 (Dacrioconarida).
Eleidae (‘melicerititids’) are unusual cyclostome bryozoans possessing operculate zooids and mandibulate polymorphs (‘eleozooids’) resembling the avicularia of cheilostome bryozoans. Here we describe 13 eleid species from the Cenomanian-Turonian of the Bohemian Cretaceous basin in the Czech Republic. Three species of Meliceritites are new: Meliceritites kankensis, M. stillativa and M. upohlavyensis...
The very common and species-rich Scleractinian genus Actinastrea (family Actinastraeidae, suborder Archeocaeniina) is revised on the basis of the type material of its type species and additional material from the type locality. A lectotype is designated for the type species. It was discovered that Jurassic to Early Cretaceous corals currently assigned to Actinastrea do not fit into the concept of...
A new genus and species of rhabdomesine cryptostome bryozoan, Lunostoma pulchra n. gen. n. sp., is described from the Lower Givetian (Middle Devonian) of the Eifel, Germany. It differs from all previously known rhabdomesines in having crescent-shaped structures (“scuta”) on the proximal sides of the apertures. These scuta resemble the lunaria that characterise cystoporate bryozoans, providing yet...
The nominative subgenus of Schizophoria (Brachiopoda, Orthida) is represented in the Lower and Middle Devonian of Poland and of the western Ukraine by six taxa: late Emsian Schizophoria (S.) interstrialis, late Eifelian S. (S.) schnuri biscissa, early Givetian S. (S.) schnuri schnuri, middle to late Givetian S. (S.) schnuri prohibita ssp.n., middle Givetian S. (S.) parvaepunctata and late Givetian...
Middle Triassic marine deposits of the Germanic Basin (Muschelkalk) record a significant proliferation of cementing bivalves from different families. Based on previously undescribed, excellently preserved material from the Willebadessen Member (late Anisian, Illyrian) of the Upper Muschelkalk Trochitenkalk Formation of Willebadessen (Germany), we propose the new genus Noetlingiconcha, type species...
The types of the species of the Coniacian ammonite genus Hemitissotia Peron, 1897, identified in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), which are currently held in the Wiedmann (Universität Tübingen, Germany) and Choffat (Instituto Geológico e Mineiro, Portugal) collections, have been revised and refigured. New specimens of the taxa Hemitissotia ceadouroensis Choffat, 1898, Hemitissotia ...
The fossil record of the Tabanidae is sparse when compared with other families of Diptera. Even in amber they are rare, probably because of their size and specific flight behavior. Horseflies from amber are only known from Cretaceous age New Jersey amber as well as from the Tertiary age Baltic and Dominican amber, but are herein described for the first time, with Stenotabanus oleariorum sp. n., from...
This article is a taxonomic study of all spongy radiolarian taxa with five to six coplanar and four tetrahedrally disposed spines or spongy arms occurring in the middle Carnian from the Köseyahya section, near the town of Elbistan, SE Turkey. This fauna is characteristic of the Tetraporobrachia haeckeli radiolarian Zone, and comes from an 8 m thick succession of clayey–cherty limestones occurring...
The present article is a taxonomic study of all spongy spumellarian radiolarian taxa with three and four coplanar spines or spongy arms occurring in the middle Carnian from the Köseyahya section, near the town of Elbistan, SE Turkey. This fauna is characteristic of the Tetraporobrachia haeckeli radiolarian Zone, and comes from an 8 m thick succession of clayey-cherty limestones occurring at the lower...
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