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Inproceedings Reference A potential origin for 160-poor cosmic spherules: a near-Earth source and parentage with CY chondrites
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2022
Inproceedings Reference Apport de la méthode (U-Th)/He pour la datation de mammifères néogènes (faune de Douahria) dans le district minier de Nefza-Sejnane (Tunisie)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2022
Article Reference Des comblements riches en bio-restes : les puits de Château Renaud, Virton (Antiquité tardive)
Nous présentons les résultats combinés des analyses carpologique, palynologique, archéozoologique et paléoanthropologique menées sur les biorestes issus du comblement des deux puits à eau de Château Renaud, Virton (Antiquité tardive). Ce riche matériel permet de documenter certains aspects de la vie des occupants du site et de leur cadre environnemental.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
Article Reference Nouvel examen des moulages des ossements du squelette néandertalien du Moustier I
Contexte En 1908, l’archéologue suisse Otto Hauser découvrait en Dordogne, dans un contexte stratigraphique discutable, un squelette assez complet d’adolescent néandertalien. Ces vestiges ont été vendus au Musée de Berlin, à la grande indignation des anthropologues français. Le crâne, qui avait déjà été reconstruit à 4 reprises de manière insatisfaisante, a été enlevé par l’Armée Rouge lors de la chute de Berlin, et a été retrouvé en 1965 à Berlin-Est. Quant au squelette post-crânien, il a été sévèrement endommagé pendant les bombardements. Le musée d’anatomie et embryologie Louis-Deroubaix possède des moulages du squelette du Moustier, incluant le crâne tel qu’il avait été reconstruit de manière contestée par l’anatomiste Hermann Klaatsch. Matériel et méthodes Les moulages ont été triés, complétés, comparés par et avec ceux provenant de l’Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique (notamment le moulage endocrânien), mesurés, et ont fait l’objet d’un examen anthropométrique et tomodensitométrique. Cela a permis d’alimenter la banque de données numériques des Néandertaliens ainsi que de générer des reconstructions 3D, qui peuvent, pour le crâne, être comparées aux reconstructions plus récentes, plus précises et mieux fondées. Résultats L’examen des moulages permet de confirmer leur attribution à un néandertalien de sexe probablement masculin âgé d’environ 15 ans. Cette analyse reste à nuancer compte tenu de la reconstruction des os (incluant le « recollage » des noyaux épiphysaires). Discussion et conclusions La possession de moulages originaux par un musée universitaire constitue un atout scientifique et didactique majeur malgré leur imperfection, surtout en raison de la dégradation irrémédiable des ossements originaux.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019
File Wake Up Your Data - Set them free for Blue Society
The EMODnet Data Ingestion portal is developed to facilitate and streamline the process where marine data from whatever source is delivered on a voluntary basis for safekeeping and further distribution.
Located in PDF / PDF Posters / 2017
Inbook Reference Une autre analyse fonctionnelle de Darion-Colia, site fossoyé du Rubané récent de Belgique : Des faits archéologiques conduisant aux fonctionnements socio-économiques ?
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Inproceedings Reference New multituberculate mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Transylvania (Romania)
In the scope of the Belgo-Romanian excavation campaigns in Transylvania, the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the University Babeş-Bolyai excavated three Late Cretaceous vertebrate localities in the Haţeg Basin. Compared to other European localities, the studied sites show rich mammal remains, which are dominated by multituberculates. At three localities, more than five tons of fossiliferous sediments were screen washed (mesh width 0.5 mm) and yielded forty-three dental specimens. This material essentially provides new information on the enigmatic European family Kogaionidae. A new small species of the genus Kogaionon is recognized on the basis of four dental positions from the fluviatil deposits of Pui (excavation 2000). In the floodplain deposits of the new site Toteşti-baraj (excavation 2001) sixteen teeth representing seven different dental positions of two kogaionid genera were found (Codrea et al., 2002). One lower first molar is similar to that of Barbatodon transylvanicus Rădulescu & Samson, 1986. A nearly complete upper dental series of a new species of Kogaionon is particularly well preserved. In the floodplain deposits of the new site Nălaţ-Vad (excavation 2002), one of the exceptional fossiliferous marl pockets yielded twelve teeth and three dentary fragments of the genera Kogaionon and Barbatodon (Smith et al., 2002). A new small species of Barbatodon is represented by a dentary with a very long rounded fourth premolar, a small first molar, but with the third premolar absent. On the other hand, Kogaionon presents a lower fourth premolar with a typical triangle shape differing clearly from Barbatodon. The results reveal for the first time the morphology of all the upper and lower dental positions characteristic of the family Kogaionidae, which allows more precise discussion of the phylogenetic position of this family among the multituberculates. Comparisons with other kogaionid multituberculates from the Paleocene of Spain, Belgium, Romania and France permit analysis of the possible migration ways following the paleogeography of Europe during the end of the Cretaceous.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Inproceedings Reference New specimens of Indohyaenodon raoi from the Early Eocene of Vastan Mine, India and their implication for phylogeny and biogeography of Hyaenodontid mammals
Cambaytherium, Nakusia, and Kalitherium are closely related early Eocene mammals from the Indo-Pakistan region that have been assigned to Perissodactyla (Laurasiatheria) or Anthracobunidae. The latter have been variously considered artiodactyls or perissodactyls, but more recently are usually placed at the base of the order Proboscidea or of the more inclusive Tethytheria (Afrotheria). We present new evidence from the dentition, skull, and postcranial skeleton of Cambaytherium, from Gujarat, India (ca. 54.5 Ma), that cambaytheres occupy a pivotal position as the sister taxon of Perissodactyla. Cambaytherium was more robust than basal perissodactyls such as ″Hyracotherium″ and Homogalax, and had a body mass of ~25-27 kg based on humeral, radial, and dental regressions. Perissodactyl synapomorphies include a transverse nasal-frontal suture, twinned molar metaconids, and an astragalus with deeply grooved trochlea and a saddleshaped navicular facet. Like perissodactyls, cambaytheres are mesaxonic and have hooflike unguals and a cursorially-adapted skeleton. Plesiomorphic traits compared to basal perissodactyls include bunodont molars with large conules and almost no hint of bilophodonty, unmolarized premolars, sacrum with four vertebrae, humerus with distally extensive pectoral crest and distal articulation lacking a capitular tail, distal radius without discrete scaphoid and lunate fossae, femur with low greater trochanter, calcaneus robust and wide with rounded ectal facet, astragalus wide with moderately long neck and vestigial astragalar foramen, navicular and cuboid short and wide, metapodials short and robust, and Mc I and Mt V present. In most or all of these traits cambaytheres are intermediate between phenacodontid condylarths and perissodactyls but closer to the latter. Our phylogenetic analyses place cambaytheres just outside perissodactyls, and place anthracobunids among primitive perissodactyls. However, similarities between cambaytheres and anthracobunids suggest that they are closely related, and future discovery of skeletal material of anthracobunids will provide a test of this hypothesis. Our results indicate that Anthracobunidae are not Proboscidea or tethytheres, and suggest that the origin of Perissodactyla may have taken place on the drifting Indian plate. How the progenitors of perissodactyls reached India is more problematic but might have involved land connections with Afro-Arabia during the Paleocene. Field work and research supported by the National Geographic Society.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Inproceedings Reference Impact of man-made structures on hard substrate species connectivity patterns in the North Sea
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2017
Inproceedings Reference How is connectivity pattern of hard substrate species impacted by artificial structures in the North Sea?
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2017