Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late Pleistocene of the “Caverne Marie-Jeanne” (Hastière-Lavaux, Namur, Belgium): Systematics, paleobiogeography, and paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions
- Archeological sites usually provide important information about the past distribution ofsmall vertebrate fauna, and by extension about past terrestrial environments and climatein which human activities took place. In this context, Belgium has an interesting location innorthwestern Europe between the fully studied zooarcheological records of Germany andEngland. We present here the revision of the late Pleistocene (Marine Isotope Stages 3 and 2)collection of the “Caverne Marie-Jeanne” (Hastière-Lavaux, Namur), studied by Jean-ClaudeRage in the 1970s and the revision of the whole “indeterminate” small vertebrate materialsfrom the “Caverne Marie-Jeanne” stored in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences(RBINS) Quaternary collections in search of more herpetofaunal remains. It is now by farthe largest late Pleistocene collection at RBINS with more than 20,500 recognized bonesof amphibians and reptiles and covering the last 60,000 years. The faunal list comprisestwo urodeles (Lissotriton gr. L. vulgaris and Salamandra salamandra), four anurans (Bufo gr.B. bufo-spinosus, Epidalea calamita, Rana temporaria and Rana cf. R. arvalis), three lizards(Lacerta cf. L. agilis, Zootoca vivipara and Anguis gr. A. fragilis), and three snakes (Natrix gr.N. natrix, Coronella austriaca, and Vipera berus). This study represents the first fossil record in Belgium for L. gr. L. vulgaris, R. arvalis, Z. vivipara, N. gr. N. natrix and C. austriaca. As awhole, this assemblage suggests a patchy humid landscape under colder and dryer climaticconditions in comparison with present ones. This study also underlines the necessity of aprimary separation in larger taxonomical categories by the specialist itself.
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Otolith evidence concerning interrelationships of caproid, zeiform and tetraodontiform fishes
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Annie Valérie DHONDT
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Fish otoliths from the Middle Miocene of Kienberg at Mikulov, Czech Republic, Vienna Basin: Their paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic significance
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Voorkomen van het Amerikaanse visgenus Micropogonias langs de zuidelijke Noordzeekust; evolutie en verspreiding van de familie Sciaenidae in het Noord-Atlantisch gebied
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Early Oligocene fish otoliths from the Castellane area (SE France) and an overview of Mediterranean teleost faunas at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary
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Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian fish otoliths from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds, India: a revision
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Fish otoliths from the Priabonian (Late Eocene) of North Italy and South-East France – Their paleobiogeographical significance
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Lower Badenian fish otoliths of the Styrian and Lavanttal basins, with a revision of Weinfurter’s type material
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Une remarquable association d’otolithes de poisons dans le Miocène moyen de Sos, Matillo, (France, Lot-et Garonne)
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Hommage à Joseph Chaine et Jean Duvergier. Diversité et variabilité des otolithes des poissons
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20 – Otoliths
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Fish otoliths from the pre-evaporitic (Early Messinian) sediments of northern Italy: their stratigraphic and paleobiogeographic significance
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Les terrains paléogènes (Priabonien et Rupelien) dans les Alpes de Haute Provence: Sédimentologie et Micropaléontologie
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Les Priacanthidae (Teleostei, Perciformes) des Sables de Lede (Eocène moyen, Belgique) : ostéologie et otolithes
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Fish otoliths from the Middle Eocene (Bartonian of Yebra de Basa, province of Huesca, Spain
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The diversity of fish otoliths, past and present
- Monograph in Natural Sciences from the Operational Directorate « Earth and History of Life » of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
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Tortonian fish otoliths from turbiditic deposits in Northern Italy : Taxonomic and stratigraphic significance
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Fish otolith assemblages from Recent NE Atlantic sea bottoms: A comparative study of palaoecology
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Otolithes de poissons cénomaniens des Marnes de Ballon (France). Découverte des plus anciens perciformes
