Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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New Hypsodont Tillodont (Mammalia, Tillodontia) from the Early Eocene of India
- A new tillodont, Anthraconyx hypsomylus, n. gen. n. sp., is described from the early Eocene Cambay Shale Formation at Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, India. Anthraconyx hypsomylus is the smallest Eocene tillodont and is distinguished by having the most buccally hypsodont cheek teeth of any known esthonychine. The closest dental resemblances are to North American Esthonyx and Azygonyx and European Plesiesthonyx, providing further evidence of affinities between the Vastan local fauna and Euroamerican vertebrate faunas.
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Dispersal of continental vertebrates during the Paleogene: Preface
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A land micro-mammal fauna from the Early Eocene marine Egem deposits (NP12, Belgium) and the first occurrence of the peradectid marsupial Armintodelphys outside North America
- Dental remains of land mammals are sometimes discovered in shallow marine Paleogene deposits of the North Sea Basin. Such is the case for eleven specimens we describe here from the Early Eocene Egemkapel Clay Member in the middle part of the Tielt Formation, found in Ampe quarry at Egem in Northwestern Belgium. The small fauna consists of 6 taxa, including the neoplagiaulacid multituberculate Ectypodus, the erinaceomorph insectivore Macrocranion, the nyctitheriid Leptacodon, an eochiropteran bat possibly belonging to a palaeochiropterygid, an unidentified perissodactyl possibly belonging to an equoid, and a new species of the peradectid marsupial Armintodelphys. The latter represents the first European occurrence of the genus, which was previously only known from the North American late Early and early Middle Eocene of the Wind River and Green River basins in Wyoming and the Uinta Basin in Utah. Biogeographic and biostratigraphic analyses of peradectid marsupials suggest that Armintodelphys dispersed between North America and Europe around the time of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. The Egemkapel Clay Member has been dated as middle NP12, early late Ypresian, whereas the Egem mammal fauna can be correlated to the fauna of Avenay from the Paris Basin, which is the international reference-level MP8+9 of the mammalian biochronological scale for the European Paleogene.
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Dispersals of placental carnivorous mammals (Carnivoramorpha, Oxyaenodonta & Hyaenodontida) near the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: a climatic and almost worldwide story
- During the Late Paleocene and around the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, there were important mammalian dispersals in Laurasia involving earliest modern mammals such as rodents, primates, perissodactyls, and artiodactyls. The placental carnivorous mammals (Viverravidae, “Miacidae”, Hyaenodontida, Oxyaenodonta) importantly took part in these dispersals. The present article shows that these latter mammals allow reconstructing faunal dispersal scenarios during the early Paleogene. Indeed, they evidenced several dispersal ways among Laurasia, but also with Africa and possibly India. The dispersal phases discussed in the present paper concern the Early Paleocene, Late Paleocene, latest Paleocene (Clarkforkian NALMA), and Paleocene-Eocene transition.
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Quatre sondages au barrage de Lixhe
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Studie van de lithostratigrafie van het Kwartair en van het Tertiaire substraat te Zeebrugge ondermeer met diepsonderingen
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Kwartairgeologische opnamen in het Bos van A te Zemst
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The Silurian of the Méhaigne area (Brabant Massif, Belgium). Lithostratigraphy and features of the sedimentary basin
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De Holocene sedimenten van de westelijke kustvlakte: een analyse van de Belgische litteratuur
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Hydrogeologische verkenningen in Oost-Vlaanderen (1968-1977)
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Les roches salmiennes à coticule dans la région de Salmchâteau
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Centre for Quaternary Stratigraphy and Paleoclimatology. Contactgroups National Science Foundation (N.F.W.O.-F.N.R.S.). Contributions of the joint-meeting held on 18-19-20 april 1983
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Geochemisch onderzoek van het artesisch grondwater in de sokkel van Oost en West Vlaanderen
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Stratigraphy of the Upper Frasnian and Famennian deposits in the region of Hamoir-sur-Ourthe (Dinant Synclinorium, Belgium)
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Observations géologiques au droit du viaduc de Fosses-la-Ville
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Description des sondages implantés le long de l'autoroute E9 entre Tilff (Cortil) et Remouchamps
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Bijdrage tot de kennis van de sedimentpetrologie van Tertiaire afzettingen in Hoog-België
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Upper Cretaceous to Early Tertiary deposits (Santonian to Paleocene) in northeastern Belgium and South Limburg (The Netherlands) with reference to the Campanian - Maastrichtian
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Distribution stratigraphique des mégaspores dans quelques sondages de la région nord-est de la Campine
