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Article Reference Tracking individual dietary choices in complex past food webs: Integrated bulk collagen and compound-specific stable isotope analysis of urban cats
Reconstructing dietary strategies in past urban environments is challenging because of the complexity of anthropogenic impacts on food webs, in which diverse local and imported resources with variable isotopic compositions limit the interpretive power of conventional bulk-collagen stable isotope analysis. We address this problem using domestic cats as dietary proxies, exploiting their opportunistic foraging behavior to track resource partitioning within a medieval urban landscape. We present an integrated multi-isotope study of cat bone collagen from medieval Gdańsk (northern Poland) and six regional comparative sites, combining bulk collagen δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S analysis with compound-specific δ13C and δ15N analysis of amino acids. Despite apparent isotopic homogeneity in the Gdańsk assemblage within the conventional bulk collagen dual-isotope space, the expanded isotopic framework reveals substantial individual-level dietary variability. Sulfur isotopes indicate diverse food provenances, including baseline values of the marine ecosystem and grain imported from inland regions. Amino acid-based fingerprinting identifies diets spanning terrestrial C3 and C4, freshwater, and marine ecosystem baselines, while amino acid-based trophic position proxies reveal highly variable individual trophic levels uncorrelated with bulk collagen δ15N values. These findings demonstrate that isotopic homogeneity in the conventional dual-isotope space can mask substantial dietary heterogeneity. Our study highlights the potential of integrating amino acid analysis with sulfur isotope analysis to reconstruct individual-level food choices in complex past environments.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference Unusual skip and groove marks from the Carboniferous Denée Konservat‑Lagerstätte (Visean, Belgium)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference On the variability of the marine gastropod Manzonia overdiepi van Aartsen, 1983 (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) from the Canary Islands, the Selvagens Islands and the Madeira Archipelago
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference The Consthum Lagerstätte (Luxembourg) – a window into the palaeoecology of Early Devonian marine‑terrestrial transitional facies
In the Rhenish Massif, a vast Lower Devonian deltaic system along the southern edge of Laurussia (Old Red Continent) continues to yield exceptional fossils from marginal marine to terrestrial transitional facies. Hitherto, these occurrences are mainly known from the lower Moselle and West-Eifel regions in Germany. Here, we introduce a new Lagerstätte situated in northern Luxembourg, which extends the known geographical occurrence of this important biota further to the west. It agrees more-or-less with previously known localities from Germany in the general composition of the fossil association, which is composed of a bivalve-lingulid-arthropod-dominated association with a few associated vertebrate remains, macro-plants, and some miospores. Unique features include a mass occurrence of clam shrimp, the high abundance of scorpions and juvenile specimens of the eurypterid Adelophthalmus as well as the occurrence of supposed euthycarcinoids and (stem?) onychophorans. Analyses of the Consthum Lagerstätten and biota have great potential to further illuminate the palaeoecology and palaeogeography of marginal-marine to terrestrial transitional settings in the Ardenno-Rhenish Lower Devonian and to decipher the palaeoecological origin of various lineages of organisms, such as clam shrimp, scorpions, and onychophorans. This is of paramount importance for a holistic understanding of the biology and physiology of their modern descendants.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference Redescription of Teretoctopus alcocki Robson, 1932 (Cephalopoda: Enterotopodidae), and comments on the nomenclature of "inkless octopus" genera.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2025
Article Reference On the presence of the phacopid trilobite Omegops in the uppermost Famennian of northern France (Avesnois)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference A selkirkiid scalidophoran from the Lower Devonian of Belgium and the dubious merit of the concept of ‘Burgess Shale-type’ organisms
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference Correction: Pahon Cave, Gabon: New insights into the Later Stone Age in the African rainforest
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference A critical evaluation of fossil reports from the lower Palaeozoic of the Stavelot-Venn Inlier (Belgium, western Germany)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026
Article Reference New records of the shining guest ant Formicoxenus nitidulus (Nylander, 1846) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Belgium
We report new records of the shining guest ant Formicoxenus nitidulus (Nylander, 1846) from ten sites across Belgium. The species was found in association with Formica rufa Linnaeus, 1761, Formica polyctena Förster, 1850 and Formica pratensis Retzius, 1783 nests across six provinces (Antwerp, Flemish Brabant, Liège, Limburg, Luxembourg, Namur). Records were obtained using selective traps, placed on the margins of host mounds as well as by direct observations on host nests. These observations indicate that F. nitidulus is more widespread in Belgium than previously thought.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2026 OA