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Article Reference Three new species of Muricidae (Ocenebrinae, Pagodulinae) from the Gulf of California, Mexico and update of the living muricids from the area
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2020
Article Reference Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) infesting transhumant cattle stalled in Kisangani (DR Congo): a neglected veterinary health issue
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2021
Article Reference Tidally Driven Dispersion of a Deep-Sea Sediment Plume Originating from Seafloor Disturbance in the DISCOL Area (SE-Pacific Ocean)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2022
Article Reference Timing of intercontinental faunal migrations: Anguimorph lizards from the earliest Eocene (MP 7) of Dormaal, Belgium
Here we report on anguimorph lizards from the earliest Eocene (MP 7) of the Dormaal locality in Belgium, from the time of the warmest global climate of the past 66 million years. Several clades can be identified in this site: Glyptosauridae, Varanidae, and Palaeovaranidae. Our study focuses on glyptosaurid specimens previously reported from the site, some of which had been provisionally described as a new species,?Placosaurus ragei, and some assigned to an unnamed Placosauriops-like ‘melanosaurine’. Our study presents data on new material, including an almost complete glyptosaurine frontal that has enabled us to assign much of the previously described material to a single genus and species. The specimens that had been assigned to both ?P ragei and the ‘melanosaurine’ share apomorphies (flat osteoderms and chevron-shaped osteoderms) with Gaultia, a glyptosaurid previously known from the earliest Eocene of Wyoming, USA. The Dormaal material represents the first record of this genus outside North America. In fact, the only potential evidence of the occurrence of ‘Melanosaurinae’ in Dormaal might be a single isolated vertebra described here. Here we also describe previously unfigured material of Saniwa and palaeovaranids from Dormaal. The presence of previously reported helodermatids cannot be supported in this Belgian site.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2024 OA
Article Reference Tiny Killers: First Record of Rhabdocoel Flatworms Feeding on Water Flea Embryos
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025
Article Reference Titanodula gen. nov., a new genus of giant Oriental praying mantises (Mantodea: Mantidae: Hierodulinae)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2020
Article Reference To the knowledge of Amphidromus Mirandus Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912 and Amphidromus heinrichhuberi Thach & Huber in Thach, 2016 with comments on the publication by Barna Pall-Gergely et al (2020)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2021
Article Reference To what extent can decommissioning options for marine artificial structures move us toward environmental targets?
Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is key to international energy transition efforts and the move toward net zero. For many nations, this requires decommissioning of hundreds of oil and gas infrastructure in the marine environment. Current international, regional and national legislation largely dictates that structures must be completely removed at end-of-life although, increasingly, alternative decommissioning options are being promoted and implemented. Yet, a paucity of real-world case studies describing the impacts of decommissioning on the environment make decision-making with respect to which option(s) might be optimal for meeting in- ternational and regional strategic environmental targets challenging. To address this gap, we draw together international expertise and judgment from marine environmental scientists on marine artificial structures as an alternative source of evidence that explores how different decommissioning options might ameliorate pressures that drive environmental status toward (or away) from environmental objectives. Synthesis reveals that for 37 United Nations and Oslo-Paris Commissions (OSPAR) global and regional environmental targets, experts consider repurposing or abandoning individual structures, or abandoning multiple structures across a region, as the op- tions that would most strongly contribute toward targets. This collective view suggests complete removal may not be best for the environment or society. However, different decommissioning options act in different ways and make variable contributions toward environmental targets, such that policy makers and managers would likely need to prioritise some targets over others considering political, social, economic, and ecological contexts. Current policy may not result in optimal outcomes for the environment or society.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023
Inproceedings Reference Tomography of three articulated perissodactyl skeletons from Messel
The perissodactyls from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Messel (MP11; around 47 Ma) are among the most well-known fossils from this site, and belong to at least five different genera: three equoids (Propalaeotherium, Eurohippus, and Hallensia) and two tapiromorphs (Lophiodon and Hyrachyus). Here, we investigated by X-ray microtomography at the DTHE (MateIS Laboratory, Lyon) the anatomy of three articulated skeletons from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences collection: two specimens of Eurohippus messelensis, as well as the only accessible skeleton of Hallensia matthesi. The segmented 3D models allow us to visualize for the first time some cranial, dental and postcranial features that were previously concealed. Surprisingly, the tooth rows of the two specimens of E. messelensis show two different morphologies. One is typical of E. messelensis whereas the other shows all the diagnostic characters of E. parvulus expressed by Franzen (2006). However, based on the monograph on equoids from Messel by Franzen (2007), E. messelensis was only recognized in Messel, whereas E. parvulus was known from several other localities, notably in the Geiseltal, but not in Messel. We thus suggest that E. parvulus may have also been present in Messel, which raises the question of their potential synonymy. Finally, the preservation of the skeleton of Hallensia matthesi does not permit to observe the fine anatomy of the skeleton, but still permits to discuss important characters such as the number of fingers.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025 OA
Unpublished Reference text/h323 Tour d’Horizon 2023, 03-07 JULY 2023. Mission Report.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023