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Article Reference Etude biostratigraphique et paléoécologique des Ostracodes du récif de marbre rouge du Hautmont à Vodelée (Partie supérieure du Frasnien, Bassin de Dinant, Belgique)
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Article Reference Ponderodictya belliloci nov. sp., nouvelle espèce d'Ostracode (Metacopida) dans le Frasnien des Bassins de Namur et de Dinant (Belgique et nord de la France)
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Article Reference Présence d'Entomozoacea (Ostracodes) dans la partie famenienne de la coupe du Djebel Hèche (Gourara, Sahara algérien)
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Article Reference Les Ostracodes de la partie supérieure de la Formation de Teferguenite (Givétien) et de la Formation de Marhouna (Givétien - Famennien) de la coupe du Km 30 (Saoura, Sahara algérien)
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Article Reference A dietary perspective of cat-human interactions in two medieval harbors in Iran and Oman revealed through stable isotope analysis
Cats are hypercarnivorous, opportunistic animals that have adjusted to anthropogenic environments since the Neolithic period. Through humans, either by direct feeding and/or scavenging on food scraps, the diet of cats has been enriched with animals that they cannot kill themselves (e.g., large mammals, fish). Here, we conducted carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratio analysis to reconstruct the diet of medieval cats and investigate cat-human interactions in two medieval harbor sites (Qalhât, Oman and Siraf, Iran). The analysis included 28 cat individuals and 100 associated marine and terrestrial faunal samples pertaining to > 30 taxa. The isotopic results indicate a high marine protein-based diet for the cats from Qalhât and a mixed marine-terrestrial (C4) diet for the cats from Siraf. Cats at these sites most likely scavenged on both human food scraps and refuse related to fishing activities, with differences in the two sites most likely associated with the availability of marine resources and/or the living conditions of the cats. By shedding light on the dietary habits of cats from two medieval harbors in the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, this study illustrates the potential of stable isotope analysis in reconstructing human-cat interactions in the past.
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Article Reference Ultraconserved elements-based phylogenomic systematics of the snake superfamily Elapoidea, with the description of a new Afro-Asian family
The highly diverse snake superfamily Elapoidea is considered to be a classic example of ancient, rapid radiation. Such radiations are challenging to fully resolve phylogenetically, with the highly diverse Elapoidea a case in point. Previous attempts at inferring a phylogeny of elapoids produced highly incongruent estimates of their evolutionary relationships, often with very low statistical support. We sought to resolve this situation by sequencing over 4,500 ultraconserved element loci from multiple representatives of every elapoid family/subfamily level taxon and inferring their phylogenetic relationships with multiple methods. Concatenation and multispecies coalescent based species trees yielded largely congruent and well-supported topologies. Hypotheses of a hard polytomy were not retained for any deep branches. Our phylogenies recovered Cyclocoridae and Elapidae as diverging early within Elapoidea. The Afro-Malagasy radiation of elapoid snakes, classified as multiple subfamilies of an inclusive Lamprophiidae by some earlier authors, was found to be monophyletic in all analyses. The genus Micrelaps was consistently recovered as sister to Lamprophiidae. We establish a new family, Micrelapidae fam. nov., for Micrelaps and assign Brachyophis to this family based on cranial osteological synapomorphy. We estimate that Elapoidea originated in the early Eocene and rapidly diversified into all the major lineages during this epoch. Ecological opportunities presented by the post-Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event may have promoted the explosive radiation of elapoid snakes.
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Article Reference Olentangiella n. gen., nouveau genre d'Entomozoidae (Ostracode)
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Article Reference Les Ostracodes du Frasnien et de la base du Famennien de la coupe du Km 30 (Saoura, Sahara algérien)
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Article Reference Les Entomozoacea (Ostracodes) du Frasnien de l'extrémité occidentale du bord sud du Bassin de Dinant, Belgique
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Article Reference La Zone à Svantovites lethiersi n. sp., zone nouvelle d'Ostracodes de la fin du Frasnien et du début du Famennien
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