Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Landschaftsentwicklung und Landnutzung im Segbachtal bei Mendig.
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Holocene climate variability of Mesopotamia and its impact on the history of civilisation.
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Syn- and post-eruptive gully formation near the Laacher See volcano
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Experiments on tsunami induced boulder transport – A review
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Mainstreaming of biodiversity into development cooperation
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Presentation Luc et Jean Didier\_EVAMAB Clearing House Mechanism of Bénin
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Cabindachanos dartevellei gen. and sp. nov., a new chanid fish (Ostariophysi, Gonorynchiformes) from the marine Paleocene of Cabinda (Central Africa)
- The osteology of Cabindachanos dartevellei gen. and sp. nov., a fossil fish from the marine Danian or early Selandian deposits of Landana (Cabinda Territory, Central Africa), is here studied in detail. This fish is known by only one partially preserved specimen that shows typical characters. The opercle is greatly hypertrophied. The preopercle has a very broad dorsal limb and a long narrower ventral limb. There is a wide plate-like suprapreopercle. The lower jaw is deep, with a well-marked coronoid process formed by the dentary. The articulation between the quadrate and the mandible is located before the orbit. The first supraneurals are enlarged. These characters indicate that C. dartevellei belongs to the family Chanidae (Teleostei, Gonorynchiformes). Cabindachanos dartevellei differs from all the other known fossil or recent chanid fishes by the gigantic development of its opercle and by the loss of the subopercle. The straight angle formed by the two limbs of the preopercle and the well-developed posterior median crest of the supraoccipital indicate that C. dartevellei belongs to the subfamily Chaninae and the tribe Chanini.
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Tristichopterids (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Upper Devonian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, upper Famennian), with phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic considerations
- We describe new material of the tristichopterids cf. Langlieria socqueti and cf. Eusthenodon wangsjoi and other unassignable tetrapodomorph remains from the upper Famennian locality of Strud, Belgium. Because of recent improvements in our tristichopterid knowledge, a new phylogenetic analysis is presented in addition to a paleobiogeographic analysis using the Bayesian binary Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) statistical method. The origin of the whole tristichopterid clade is reconstructed with a very likely western European origin. Much of the early tristichopterid history took place in Euramerica. During the Late Devonian, tristichopterids most probably spread from Euramerica into Gondwana. The highly nested tristichopterid clade formed by Cabonnichthys burnsi, Mandageria fairfaxi, E. wangsjoi, Edenopteron keithcrooki, and Hyneria lindae most likely differentiated in Australia. Then dispersal events occurred from Australia to Euramerica with Hyneria lindae (to eastern North America) and E. wangsjoi (to Greenland/western Europe). The latter dispersal events, during the Famennian, are in agreement with the Great Devonian Interchange, which predicts dispersal events between Gondwana and Euramerica at this time.
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First occurrence of fossil vertebrates from the Carboniferous of Colombia
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Rise of the titans: baleen whales became giants earlier than thought
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Diverse and durophagous: Early Carboniferous chondrichthyans from the Scottish Borders
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Microfacies analysis of a middle to upper Frasnian succession at the Lompret quarry (SW Belgium) documenting a transition from the Lion reef to deep marine Neuville and Matagne environments
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Belgian paleontological heritage: time for action?
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Van Marrakech tot Marrakech - 2000 km fossielenplezier
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Van Marrakech naar Marrakech - 2000 km fossielenplezier - deel 2
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We leven in het Meghalayaan: het Holoceen in drie opgedeeld
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Donkere tijden en vulkaanstof: sterke correlatie tussen klimaat, uitbarstingen en de mens
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Sperm whales and beaked whales, evolution
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River dolphins, evolutionary history and affinities
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Fragilicetus velponi: a new mysticete genus and species and its implications for the origin of Balaenopteridae (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)
