Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Les sélaciens de l'Auversien de Ronquerolles (Eocène Supérieur du Bassin de Paris)
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Révision des types d'otolithes de poissons fossiles décrits par R. SCHUBERT
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Les otolithes de téléostéens du stratotype des Sables d'Edegem (Miocène Inférieur de la Belgique)
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Otolithi Piscium
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Lehrbuch der Paläozoologie, Band III, Vertebraten, Teil 1: Fische im weiteren Sinne und Amphibien, par A.H. MÜLLER boekbespreking
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Haaie- en Roggetanden uit het Tertiair van België
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Les otolithes de téléostéens éocènes d'Aquitaine (sud ouest de la France) et leur intérêt stratigraphique
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Fossielen van België. Haaie en roggetanden uit het Tertiair van België
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Fossiles de Belgique. Dents de requins et raies du Tertiaire de la Belgique
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Otolithes de poissons pliocènes du Sud Est de la France
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Amphibians and Squamates from the Late Pleistocene of Caverne Marie-Jeanne (Belgium)
- Archaeological sites usually provide important information about the past distribution of the small vertebrate fauna, and by extension about past terrestrial environments and climate in which human activities took place. In this context, Belgium has an interesting location in North-western Europe between the well-studied zooarchaeological record of Germany and England. The Late Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 2) locality of Caverne Marie-Jeanne (southeast of Belgium, Ardennes region) yielded a large collection of disarticulated bone fragments and numerous plant, mollusk, and archaeological remains. They have been collected during the first field campaign in 1943 and stored in the Quaternary collections of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. A recent revision of the rich micromammal fauna (31 taxa of insectivores, bats, and rodents among 9897 identified specimens, corresponding to a minimum of 4980 individuals) revealed the presence of the steppe lemming and the European pine vole. We present here the revision of the herpetofauna based on the 1970 Jean-Claude Rage’s study and the revision of the “indeterminate” small vertebrate specimens. It is now by far the largest Late Pleistocene collection of the Belgian institute with more than 20,500 recognized bones of amphibians and reptiles and covering the last 60,000 years. The herpetofaunal list now comprises two urodeles (Lissotriton gr. L. vulgaris and Salamandra salamandra), four anurans (Bufo gr. B. bufo-spinosus, Epidalea calamita, Rana temporaria and Rana cf. R. arvalis), three lizards (Lacerta cf. L. agilis, Zootoca vivipara and Anguis gr. A. fragilis) and three snakes (Natrix gr. N. natrix-astreptophora, Coronella austriaca and Vipera berus). This study highlights the first fossil record in Belgium for L. gr. L. vulgaris, R. arvalis, Z. vivipara, N. gr. N. natrix-astretophora and C. austriaca. This assemblage suggests a patchy humid landscape under colder and dryer climatic conditions in comparison with present ones. The study also underlines the importance to carefully reexamine old collections. Grant Information: Grant 2017-SGR-859 (Gov. of Catalonia, AGAUR), CGL2016-80000-P (Spanish Min. of Econ. & Comp.), RYC-2016-19386 (Ramón y Cajal), Synthesys BE-TAF-4385, -5469, -5468, -5708.
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The Mosasaur Prognathodon (Reptilia, Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium
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Fish otoliths from the Coffee Sand (Campanian of Northeastern Mississippi
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Excursion de l'A.G.B.P. en Belgique, du 24 au 26 mai 1990. Première partie: Stratigraphie de l'Eocène en Flandre occidentale et dans les régions limitrophes
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Geology and paleontology of the Eocene Drazinda Shale Member of the Kirthar Formation, central Western Pakistan, Part III. Fish otoliths
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Les vertébrés fossiles des terrains mésozoiques de la Lorraine Belge et les récentes fouilles de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique
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Palaeontology and Geology of the Bridger Formation, southern Green River Basin, S.W. Wyoming, U.S.A. Part 8. Fish otoliths from the Twin Buttes Member, Upper Bridger Formation
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Les Sélaciens du Pliocène inférieur de Le Puget sur Argens (Sud Est de la France)
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Marine Middle Eocene fish otoliths from India and Java
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Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 14. Otoliths of Teleostean fishes
