Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Fish otoliths from the Cantaure Formation (Early Miocene of Venezuela)
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Otolithes de poissons du Pliocène inférieur de Papiol, près de Barcelone
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Fisch-Otolithen aus brackischen Faziezräumen aus dem Mittel-Eozän von Norditalien und Ungarn
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Otolithes de poissons du Pleistocène inférieur (Santernien) de Morrona (sud est de Pisa)
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Coelorinchus stellaris n. sp. (poisson macrouridé) de l'Oligocène terminal d'Aquitaine et son intérêt paléobiogéographique
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Diaphus otoliths from the European Neogene (Myctophidae, Teleostei)
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Fossil record and paleobiogeography of Steindachneria (Pisces, Gadiformes)
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Stomiiformes (Teleostei, Otolithen) aus dem Miozän der Karpatischen Vortiefe (Westkarpaten, Mähren) und der Zentralen Paratethys
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Lampadena ionica: a new teleost from the Mediterranean Pleistocene
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Otolithes de poissons du Paléocanyon de Saubrigues (Chattien à Langhien), Aquitaine méridionale, France
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Fish otoliths from the Santonian of the Pyrenean realm, and an overview of all otolith-documented North Atlantic Late Cretaceous teleosts
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Revision of the American otolith-based fish species described by Koken in 1888
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Late Eocene (Priabonian fish otoliths from the Yazoo Clay at Copenhagen, Louisiana
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Otolithes de poissons du Miocène inférieur piémontais
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Otolithes de poissons aptiens du Maestrazgo (province de Castellon, Espagne Orientale)
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Révision de quelques Odontaspididae (Neoselachii: Lamniformes) du Paléocène et de l'Eocène du Bassin de la Mer du Nord
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Fish otoliths from the Ypresian of Vastan, Gujarat, India
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Otolithes de poissons du Pliocène inférieur (Zancléen des environs d'Alba (Piemont) et de la côte ligure
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Pleistocene fish otoliths from the Mediterranean Basin: a synthesis
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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.
