Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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La sépulture mésolithique du Petit Ri à Malonne (Namur)
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Poursuite des fouilles de sauvetage à Remerschen-Schengerwis (Grand-Duché de Luxembourg). Résultats préliminaires de la campagne 1994 : structures protohistoriques
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Fouille de l'habitat rubané de Remerschen-Schengerwis. L'un des plus anciens villages du Luxembourg
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Sur les traces des premiers agriculteurs de nos régions : de la Hesbaye à la Moselle
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Recyclage ou charognage de matières premières dans le groupe de Blicquy : une explication alternative à la présence de Blicquiens à Darion
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Rebecq (Bt). Un site mésolithique ancien au lieu-dit "Le Spinoi"
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L'allée couverte de Lamsoul à Jemelle (Rochefort). Recherches 1995
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Les pieds dans le passé, la tête dans les nuages : la Préhistoire au 19e étage de l'Institut
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De voeten in het verleden, het hoofd in de wolken : de prehistorie op de 19de verdieping van het instituut
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Économie et société dans le Rubané récent de Belgique [Résumé]
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Économie et société dans le Rubané récent de Belgique [Contribution in extenso au XXIIIe Congrès Préhistorique de France].
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Le Rubané de la Moselle : trait d'union entre la Rhénanie et le Bassin parisien ? Questions et réponses après deux campagnes de fouilles au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg.
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Morphological and DNA analyses reveal cryptic diversity in Anentome wykoffi (Brandt, 1974) (Gastropoda: Nassariidae), with descriptions of two new species from Thailand
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What's In a name? Reflections on defining and naming genera using molluscs as examples
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Faunistics, shell morphology, and reproductive anatomy of the genus Bensonies Baker, 1938 In Nepal (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Ariophantidae)
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First Old World record of the poorly known, swan-sized anseriform bird Paranyroca from the late Oligocene/early Miocene of France
- A tarsometatarsus of a large anseriform bird from the late Oligocene/early Miocene of the Saint-Gérand-le-Puy area in France is assigned to the distinctive taxon Paranyroca, which was before only known from the early Miocene of North America. Paranyroca may be a stem group representative of Anatidae and its tarsometatarsus exhibits a peculiar character mosaic, with an Anhimidaelike hypotarsus and an Anatidae-like distal end. With regard to these features, the bone resembles the tarsometatarsus of another anseriform bird from Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, which was described as Cygnopterus alphonsi but has not yet been compared with Paranyroca in the original description. C. alphonsi was originally identified as a swan, but this classification has subsequently been contested and here it is proposed that the species is more closely related to Paranyroca.
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Wutuchelys eocenica n. gen. n. sp., an Eocene stem testudinoid turtle from Wutu, Shandong Province, China
- We describe here a new turtle from the early Eocene of Wutu, Shandong Province, China. This turtle with a full row of well-developed inframarginal scutes is assigned to the basalmost testudinoids while stem testudinoids were believed to disappear by the Palaeocene–Eocene boundary. This account shows that stem testudinoids crossed this boundary in their original range. The first comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of stem and modern testudinoids performed here demonstrates that the stem testudinoids, previously placed in the family ‘Lindholmemydidae’, do not form a monophyletic group, and the two major clades of testudinoids (Emydidae and Geoemydidae+Testudinidae) split one from another well before the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary, prior to the Late Cretaceous.
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A gymnodont fish jaw with remarkable molariform teeth from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes)
- The lower jaw of a gymnodont fish collected from the lower Eocene Cambay Shale Formation in Gujarat Province, western India, has fused dentaries without a beak and a remarkable series of teeth that are unique among all known fossil and living Tetraodontiformes. The teeth are molariform, with raised spokes radiating inward from the emarginated peripheral edge of the crown. Tooth development is intraosseous, with new teeth developing in spongy bone before they erupt and attach to the dentary by pedicels. Although many of the 110 tooth loci in the fossil have lost their teeth, in life the teeth would have grown to fit tightly together to form a broad and continuous crushing surface. The estimated age of the Cambay Shale vertebrate fauna is ca. 54.5 Ma, making the jaw the second oldest confirmed gymnodont fossil. Preliminary comparisons with extant taxa of gymnodonts with fused dentaries (e.g., Diodon, Chilomycterus, and Mola) show detailed similarities in jaw structure, but further study of the dentition is needed to better understand the evolutionary position of the new fossil. We describe the new gymnodont as yAvitoplectus molaris, gen. et sp. nov., in yAvitoplectidae, fam. nov., and place the family as incertae sedis within Gymnodontes.
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Phloeosinus rudis Blanford, 1894, scolyte invasif et nouveau pour la faune belge (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
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New extralimital record of a narwhal (Monodon monoceros) in Europe
