Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Characteristics of the Boom Clay organic matter, a review
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Deux sondages profonds à Fauroeulx (Estinnes). Planchette 163W n° 144 et 578
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Lithostratigraphy and geological structure of the Cambrian rocks at Halle-Lembeek (Zenne valley, Belgium)
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De Mergelgrotten van Hinnisdael te Vechmaal (gemeente Heers, Limburgs Haspengouw), een geologische bijdrage tot de studie van het Krijt
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Petrographic atlas of the potentially alkali-reactive rocks in Europe
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4th International Meeting of Anthracology, Brussels, 8-13 September 2008. Charcoal and microcharcoal: Continental and Marine Records. Programme and Abstracts
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First Early Hominin from Central Africa (Ishango, Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Despite uncontested evidence for fossils belonging to the early hominin genus Australopithecus in East Africa from at least 4.2 million years ago (Ma), and from Chad by 3.5 Ma, thus far there has been no convincing evidence of Australopithecus, Paranthropus or early Homo from the western (Albertine) branch of the Rift Valley. Here we report the discovery of an isolated upper molar (\#Ish25) from the Western Rift Valley site of Ishango in Central Africa in a derived context, overlying beds dated to between ca. 2.6 to 2.0 Ma. We used µCT imaging to compare its external and internal macro-morphology to upper molars of australopiths, and fossil and recent Homo. We show that the size and shape of the enamel-dentine junction (EDJ) surface discriminate between Plio-Pleistocene and post-Lower Pleistocene hominins, and that the Ishango molar clusters with australopiths and early Homo from East and southern Africa. A reassessment of the archaeological context of the specimen is consistent with the morphological evidence and suggest that early hominins were occupying this region by at least 2 Ma.
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De Holocene evolutie van de Belgische kustvlakte
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3de Vlaams-Nederlandse Natuursteendag, 14-15 mei 2009, Gent. Vergane glorie of glorieus verdergaan?
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Systematic inventory and ordering of faults in Belgium. Part I.
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Le radon dans l'air, dans l'eau et dans les roches
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Le système karstique de la Lomme, région de Rochefort - livret-guide
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Les travaux miniers de Schimper, siège sud de la mine du Bleyberg
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Systematic inventory and ordering of faults in Belgium. Part II.
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Detailed mapping at the northwest side of the Stavelot Massif. Comments on the Xhoris, the Oe and the Gileppe Sud Faults
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Le radon dans l'air, dans l'eau et dans les roches. 2ème partie. Considérations statistiques sur les répartitions spatio-temporelle et temporelle.
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The fluorescent minerals in the Belgian Mineral Collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.
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Dinosaur egg nests, mammals and other vertebrates from a new Maastrichtian site of the Hateg Basin (Romania)
- About ten dinosaur nests of large megaloolithid-type eggs have been discovered in the new Maastrichtian locality of Tote¸sti-baraj (Ha¸teg Basin, Romania). This is the largest dinosaur egg nest site discovered in Romania. Teeth and other micro-remains of vertebrates such as hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, theropods, lizards and amphibians are associated with the eggs in the sediments, reflecting the great biodiversity of the Ha¸teg Basin during the Maastrichtian. But the most remarkable collected micro-remains are teeth of mammals representing at present the richest multituberculate collection from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe.
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New lissamphibians and squamates from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of the Haţeg Basin (Romania)
- Numerous remains of amphibians and squamates were discovered in the continental sediments of theMaastrichtian Sânpetru Formation, south of Pui Village (Haţeg Basin, western Romania). The lissamphibians are represented by a salamander−like allocaudatan (Albanerpeton sp.) and at least two discoglossid frogs (cf. Eodiscoglossus sp. and cf. Paradiscoglossus sp.). The numerous lizards are represented by, e.g., the teiid Bicuspidon hatzegiensis sp. nov., and for the first time in a Late Cretaceous site, by two species of the paramacellodid Becklesius (Becklesius nopcsai sp. nov. and Becklesius cf. B. hoffstetteri). Snakes are also present in this site by an indeterminante madtsoiid, which represents the first occurrence of this family in eastern Europe. The presence of Albanerpeton in this site confirms that this genus appeared in Europe by at least the Late Cretaceous instead of Miocene as previously thought. The presence of both Albanerpeton and Bicuspidon in Haţeg Basin suggests a North American influence on eastern European amphibian and lacertilian faunas by Maastrichtian times.
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On the occurrence of the osteoglossid genus Scleropages (Teleostei, Osteoglossiformes) in the continental Paleocene of Hainin (Mons Basin, Belgium)
- Some bony remains, otoliths and squamules belonging to the osteoglossid genus Scleropages are described from the continental Paleocene of Hainin (Mons Basin, Belgium). The hypotheses to explain the occurrence of such a freshwater fish in Europe at that time are discussed.
