By using a non-invasive electron beam, SEM creates images of both high resolution and high magnification at the same time. These analyses provide detailed information about morphology, microstructure or elemental composition of samples.
For over 70 years, the Roman Kozłowski Institute of Paleobiology has been conducting in-depth studies of the history of life on Earth. Every year, the Institute publishes dozens of peer-reviewed articles, organizes conferences, foreign expeditions and excavations in new paleontological sites. We educate PhD students, publish the best paleontological journal in Poland (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica) and popularize science. The staff and laboratories are open to cooperation with other research centers and interdisciplinary projects. An essential part of our Institute is the Paleontological Collection, gathering the largest fossil collections in Poland (hundreds of thousands of specimens), partly exhibited in the Museum of Evolution.
The earliest turtles are known from the middle Late Triassic (Norian), but their record in the latest Triassic (Rhaetian) is very scarce. Bartassochersis lopezi from France is the first Rhaetian turtle from the northern hemisphere.
For the first time, the lifespan of deep-sea stalked crinoids was determined using the bomb radiocarbon method, which relies on the 14C signal produced by atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s.
A new fossil (Early Cretaceous) marine snail, Fimbrivasum bulgaricum provides rare evidence of the early evolution of Neogastropoda – one of today’s most diverse groups of predatory gastropods.
Today, stalked crinoids are confined to the deep sea, although their ancestors once dominated shallow-marine environments. Our analysis of the fossil record from the ancient Panthalassa Ocean shows that their restriction to deep-water habitats occurred much later than in the Tethyan realm.
Institute of Paleobiology has received financial support for research and educational projects from:
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