Plesionectes longicollum is a new plesiosauroid taxon from the lower Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) Posidonia Shale of Holzmaden, Germany, based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in 1978. It exhibits a distinctive combination of anatomical features, including an extraordinarily long neck.
An outcrop in southern Transylvania displays Upper Cretaceous transitional sediments from a marine to brackish environment with terrestrial elements. An international research group (including three members of the Institute of Paleobiology) conducted a comprehensive faunal study of this outcrop and identified 102 taxa of organisms
For over a decade, intensive research have been conducted at Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) at the Owadów-Brzezinki palaeontological site. The latest paper on the faunal assemblage from this locality deals above all with insects – a brief interpretation of their taphonomy is provided, and the challenges faced during their search in the quarry are highlighted.
Early Devoniancrinoids from Morocco, inhabiting the northern Gondwana shelf, are described. It was discovered that more than half of their stem fragments were colonized during host life by various epibionts.
Aragonite under scrutiny: Is the foundation of paleoclimatology starting to crumble? Aragonitic skeletons of modern and fossil corals are widely regarded as diagenetically unaltered and as preserving the original isotopic signals of the environment in which they formed.
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