Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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A gigantic bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia
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Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems
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Bernissart and the Iguanodons: historical perspective and new investigations
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A new basal ornithomimosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, NW China
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Histological assessment of vertebrate remains in the 2003 Bernissart drill
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First Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) vertebrate assemblage from Provence (Vitrolles-la-Plaine, southern France)
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Anatomy and relationships of Bolong yixianensis, an Early Cretaceous iguanodontoid dinosaur from western Liaoning, China
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High bat (Chiroptera) diversity in the Early Eocene of India
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A new adappoid primate from the Early Eocene of India
- A new genus and species of primitive adapoid primate, Asiadapis cambayensis, is described based on a dentary from the lower Eocene Cambay Shale exposed in the Vastan lignite mine in Gujarat, western India. Asiadapis is most similar to European cercamoniine notharctids and to Marcgodinotius, another primitive cercamoniine from Vastan mine. Asiadapis and Marcgodinotius may belong to a primitive clade of notharctids that reached India around the beginning of the Eocene.
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An ailuravine rodent from the lower Eocene Cambay Formation at Vastan, western India, and its palaeobiogeographic implications
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A complete skull of Allodaposuchus precedens Nopcsa, 1928 (Eusuchia) and a reassessment of the morphology of the taxon based on the romanian remains
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Early Eocene lagomorph (Mammalia) from Western India and the early diversification of lagomorpha
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Oldest North Amercian primate
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A diverse snake fauna from the early Eocene of Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, India
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The Gashatan (late Paleocene) mammal fauna from Subeng, Inner Mongolia, China
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A reassessment of the fossil goose Anser scaldii Lambrecht, 1933
- The name Anser scaldii was first used by Van Beneden (1872) in a brief text that read ‘Nous avons recu un humérus dans un parfait état de conservation, trouvé dans le crag, à Anvers’. The name was also used by Van Beneden (1873), but in both instances it is a nomen nudum. The name was made valid for the purposes of nomenclature by Lambrecht (1933: 368) when he entered Anser scaldii Van Beneden, 1872, with the following description and information: ‘Humerus typisch anserin, von der Größe von Tadorna casarca. Länge 129 mm. Material: Humerus im Mus. Bruxelles. Alter und Fundort: Obermiozän (Bolderian), Antwerpen. Etymologie: Artname nach der Schelde: Scaldia.’ At the same time he mistakenly gave the original combination as Anas scaldii Van Beneden 1872, which error was perpetuated by Gaillard (1939), Brodkorb (1964), Howard (1964), and Bochenski (1997), as noted by Mlíkovský (2002: 125). The statement by Lambrecht that this fossil is of similar length to humeri of Tadorna prompted Worthy et al. (2007) to suggest that Anser scaldii may have a bearing on the evolution of Tadornini in Europe. Accordingly, we re- examined the holotype in the Department of Paleontology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, to ascertain its relationships and its significance in Anseriform evolution.
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Early Eocene Primates from Gujarat, India
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A reassessment of the morphology and taxonomic status of ‘Crocodylus’ depressifrons Blainville, 1855 (Crocodylia, Crocodyloidea) based on the Early Eocene remains from Belgium
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First tillodont from India: Additional evidence for an early Eocene faunal connection between Europe and India?
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Bony-toothed birds (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the Middle Eocene of Belgium
