Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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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
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Euarchontan affinity of Paleocene Afro-European adapisoriculid mammals and their origin in the late Cretaceous Deccan Traps of India
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Quercypsitta-like birds from the early Eocene of India (Aves, ?Psittaciformes)
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Early Eocene artiodactyls (Mammalia) from western India
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More than just Nopcsa's Transylvanian dinosaurs: A look outside the Hateg Basin
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First skull of Orthaspidotherium edwardsi (Mammalia, "Condylarthra") from the Late Paleocene of Berru (France) and phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic European family Pleuraspidotheridae
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A new genus of "miacis" carnivoran from the earliest Eocene of Europe and North America
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3D computational imaging of the petrosal of a new multituberculate mammal from the Late Cretaceous of China and its paleobiologic inferences
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A new terrestrial vertebrate site just after the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Mortemer Formation of Upper Normandy, France
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Endocarp of Prunus (Rosaceae: Prunoideae) from the eraly Eocene of Wutu, Shandong Province, China
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A euenantiornithine bird from the Late Cretaceous Hateg Basin of Romania
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Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist
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Low genetic diversity in tepui summit vertebrates
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From Amazonia to the Atlantic forest:molecular phylogeny of Phyzelaphryninae frogs reveals unexpected diversity and a striking biogeographic pattern emphasizing conservation challenges
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Cryptic species in Iphisa elegans Gray, 1851 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) revealed by hemipenial morphology and molecular data
