Wilailuck Naksri , Yuichiro Nishioka , Jaroon Duangkrayom , Grégoire Métais , Naoto Handa , Pratueng Jintasakul , Jeremy E. Martin , Saitong Sila , Wongsakon Sukdi , Kriangkrai Suasamong , Haiyan Tong , Julien Claude
{"title":"A new Miocene and Pleistocene continental locality from Nakhon Ratchasima in Northeastern Thailand and its importance for vertebrate biogeography","authors":"Wilailuck Naksri , Yuichiro Nishioka , Jaroon Duangkrayom , Grégoire Métais , Naoto Handa , Pratueng Jintasakul , Jeremy E. Martin , Saitong Sila , Wongsakon Sukdi , Kriangkrai Suasamong , Haiyan Tong , Julien Claude","doi":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102659","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102659","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Two new fossil assemblages are described from Sin Charoen sandpit exploited in Phimai District, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeastern Thailand. In this province, vertebrate fossils have been yielded from the Miocene to the Pleistocene deposits. The Miocene fauna has been documented in detail by a rich fossil record from several localities in Chaloem Phra Kiat District, while the Pleistocene fauna has been well studied in Khok Sung sandpit in Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima District. The fossil assemblage from the upper section of Sin Charoen sandpit is similar to the Middle Pleistocene fauna of Khok Sung, which is composed of extinct and extant species of mammals and reptiles. Moreover, the finding of <span><em>Gavialis</em></span> cf. <em>bengawanicus</em> and <span><em>Duboisia</em><em> santeng</em></span> demonstrates a strong faunal relationship with Early-Middle Pleistocene faunas of Java (e.g., Trinil). The occurrence of large fluviatile turtles and gharials from Sin Charoen sandpit indicates that the past river system was more developed than today and that the Khorat Plateau was at a lower elevation at the time of deposition. The fossil assemblage from the lower section includes two rhinocerotids and an advanced form of the genus <em>Stegolophodon</em> and is similar to the Late Miocene fauna found in situ in the sandpits of Chaloem Phra Kiat District.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50780,"journal":{"name":"Annales de Paleontologie","volume":"109 4","pages":"Article 102659"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140205782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new enantiornithine bird from Upper Cretaceous non-marine deposits at Villespassans (Hérault, southern France)","authors":"Eric Buffetaut , Delphine Angst , Haiyan Tong","doi":"10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102585","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102585","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>A coracoid of an enantiornithine bird from Upper Cretaceous<span><span> (probably late Campanian) fluvial sediments at Castigno (Villespassans, Hérault, southern France) is described. It differs from all hitherto reported enantiornithine coracoids and is referred a </span>new genus and species, </span></span><em>Castignovolucris sebei</em>. This bone is large and robust, indicating a bird that was among the largest known enantiornithines, possibly the size of a Canada Goose (<em>Branta canadensis</em><span>). The new taxon is an addition to the short list of Late Cretaceous birds from France and confirms that enantiornithines were an important component of European avifaunas until late in the Cretaceous.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50780,"journal":{"name":"Annales de Paleontologie","volume":"109 1","pages":"Article 102585"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47907193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transgressing the limits of palaeoenvironmental data for Southeast Asian Pleistocene faunal assemblages: A critical review to go further","authors":"Valéry Zeitoun , Chinnawut Winayalai , Prasit Auetrakulvit , Régis Debruyne , Jean-Baptiste Mallye , Arnaud Lenoble","doi":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102657","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102657","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For the Pleistocene of South-east Asia, the ‘savannah corridor’ hypothesis put forward by Lawrence Heaney in 1991 on the basis of a few pollen records rightly aroused a certain amount of enthusiasm and was the source of many attempts to confirm or refute a significant regression in forest cover, depending on the taxa considered, during the Last Glacial Maximum. The work carried out to verify this hypothesis used a number of tools, including palaeontology, the results of which seem to us to have been greatly embellished given the paucity of reliable data available. Indeed, it is clear that the hypothesis concerns a geographical area that is largely inaccessible today, located at a depth of 120 meters in the South China Sea, and that the faunal assemblages taken into account remain imperfectly defined to allow such a hypothesis to be tested. We provide a summary of the main work carried out to date and a critical assessment of the articles published over the last few decades. It emerges that the fossil series considered (essentially mammals) are neither well chronologically set nor well defined from a taphonomic point of view, notably because they are based on unsatisfactory references, which are themselves poorly dated or based on mixtures of different faunas. These shortcomings also call into question the renewed and attractive hypothesis of the flexibility of the diet and change of habitat (ecological niche) of certain taxa, based on isotopic analyses, as recently proposed. We advocate the implementation of systematic fine excavations that take into account the taphonomy of the sites, but also show that progress has been made to go further.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50780,"journal":{"name":"Annales de Paleontologie","volume":"109 4","pages":"Article 102657"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140585467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New material of turtles from the Upper Jurassic of Phu Noi, NE Thailand: Phylogenetic implications","authors":"Haiyan Tong , Phornphen Chanthasit , Wilailuck Naksri , Suravech Suteethorn , Julien Claude","doi":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102656","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102656","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>New shell material of <em>Phunoichelys thirakhupti</em> and <em>Kalasinemys</em> <em>prasarttongosothi</em> are reported from their type locality, Phu Noi site, Khorat Plateau, NE Thailand. These new specimens complete our knowledge of their anatomy. Intraspecific and ontogenetic variations are observed in <em>P. thirakhupti</em>; and reconstruction of the shell is provided for both species. Both <em>Phunoichelys</em> and <em>Kalasinemys</em> are aquatic turtles, but their shell morphology is distinct, suggesting different mode of life. A phylogenetic scenario is presented where the previously character based Xinjiangchelyidae appear to be paraphyletic, suggesting more phylogenetically diverse lineages were present in Eastern and South-east Asia during the Jurassic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50780,"journal":{"name":"Annales de Paleontologie","volume":"109 4","pages":"Article 102656"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140585577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jean-Paul Saint Martin , Sihem Hlel , Juliette Debrie , Nadia Ben Moktar , Simona Saint Martin , Beya Mannai-Taiech
{"title":"Microbial influence in the Messinian sedimentation: Example of Cap Bon (NE Tunisia)","authors":"Jean-Paul Saint Martin , Sihem Hlel , Juliette Debrie , Nadia Ben Moktar , Simona Saint Martin , Beya Mannai-Taiech","doi":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102600","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102600","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Messinian sedimentation in Tunisia is characterized by the absence of large </span>carbonate platforms<span><span><span> known in many Mediterranean marginal basins. As a result, correlations are not easy to establish in order to integrate it into a general pattern of development at the regional level. However, the discovery of microbial constructions of metric scale makes it possible to precise uncertain points. Thus in the sector of Cap Bon in the northeast of Tunisia, stromatolitic constructions can form, over distances of several hundred meters, domes containing columnar structures at different scales as well as carbonate beds showing sedimentary ripples also of </span>microbialite nature. The highlighting of an assemblage of microbialites, associated with oolitic deposits, allows linking these formations to the Terminal Carbonate Complex which finds its place at a part of the so-called Messinian </span>Salinity Crisis.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50780,"journal":{"name":"Annales de Paleontologie","volume":"109 1","pages":"Article 102600"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43079503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Àlex Ossó , Ali Bahrami , Mehdi Yazdi , Arash Mohammadrezaei
{"title":"Presence of Zanthopsis M’Coy, 1849 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in the Early Eocene of Iran, and comments on the different species and/or morphotypes and their palaeobiogeography","authors":"Àlex Ossó , Ali Bahrami , Mehdi Yazdi , Arash Mohammadrezaei","doi":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102597","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annpal.2023.102597","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the present work, we report the discovery of several carapaces of <em>Zanthopsis</em><span> sp. from the Lower Eocene of Central Iran, which represent the easternmost record of the genus. In addition, we discuss on the similarities of the different species and/or morphotypes of the genus, and conclude that the European species could be ascribed to the “</span><em>Zanthopsis leachii</em> complex”, until future works determine the validity of the species therein contained. In this sense, <em>Zanthopsis jacobi</em> Van Straelen, 1924, in agreement with Artal and Vía (1988), is herein considered a junior synonymous of <em>Z. dufouri</em> (H. Milne Edwards <em>in</em> d’Archiac, 1850). The presence of <em>Zanthopsis</em> in the lower Eocene of Iran suggests homogeneity of the brachyuran fauna on both sides of the Tethys Realm.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50780,"journal":{"name":"Annales de Paleontologie","volume":"109 1","pages":"Article 102597"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48856375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clara Hairie , Marie-Béatrice Forel , Annachiara Bartolini , Christine Argot , Marc Herbin , Véronique Rouchon
{"title":"The peregrination of Alcide d’Orbigny's Foraminifera Collection at the Museum of Natural History, Paris: From the creation of a Palaeontology chair to the advent of Micropalaeontology","authors":"Clara Hairie , Marie-Béatrice Forel , Annachiara Bartolini , Christine Argot , Marc Herbin , Véronique Rouchon","doi":"10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102557","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Alcide d’Orbigny made his mark in the history of French Palaeontology by becoming, in 1853, the first holder of the chair of Palaeontology at the Museum of Natural History, Paris. His work on foraminifera made him one of the pioneers of Micropalaeontology<span>. Today, his original collection of foraminifera, bought by the Museum after his death, represents one of the most prestigious collections of the institution. However, for more than a century, it had been relegated to the reserves and to the good will of a few enthusiasts, while the priority of research study was given to the large vertebrate fossils. It survived the conflicts that affected the Palaeontology department, and was moved in response to construction works, wars and natural accidents such as the great flood of 1910. These different events, combined with inappropriate storage conditions, probably caused the fragility of the specimens. In order to better understand this phenomenon, known as Byne's decay, research has been undertaken to reconstruct the various storage points of the collection from its acquisition to the present day. This article aims to demonstrate the close link between the Foraminifera Collection and the history of the chair of Palaeontology, through evidence drawn from the archives of the Palaeontology laboratory and the Museum of Natural History.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":50780,"journal":{"name":"Annales de Paleontologie","volume":"108 4","pages":"Article 102557"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42934489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first Geinitziidae (Polyneoptera: Reculida) from the Upper Triassic Amisan Formation of South Korea","authors":"Corentin Jouault , Gi-Soo Nam , André Nel","doi":"10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102558","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102558","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Shurabia taewani</em><span> sp. nov., is the first representative of the reculid family Geinitziidae described from the Upper Triassic of South Korea. The preservation of numerous wing venation characters on this new fossil allows for its placement in the genus </span><em>Geinitzia</em> and a deep comparison with other genera of Geinitziidae. This discovery suggests that the insect paleofauna of the Amisan Formation is rich and needs to be further investigated. <em>Shurabia taewani</em> sp. nov. differs from the other species currently included in the genus, <em>inter alia</em>, because its vein ScP ends near wing mid-length, its fork of M is at the same level as the fork of R, its RP has five branches, its MA four branches, its MP two branches, and its vein m-cua ‘M5′ originates from the stem of M and ends into CuA.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50780,"journal":{"name":"Annales de Paleontologie","volume":"108 4","pages":"Article 102558"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47258323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ibtissam Chraiki , El Hafid Bouougri , Abderrazak El Albani
{"title":"Microbialites diversity from the Ediacaran of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco): A snapshot of microbial oases thriving in an alkaline volcanic lake","authors":"Ibtissam Chraiki , El Hafid Bouougri , Abderrazak El Albani","doi":"10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102584","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annpal.2022.102584","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Moroccan Anti-Atlas belt preserves an exceptional record of an Ediacaran microbial biosphere. The Amane Tazgart Formation of the Ouarzazate Group corresponds to an Ediacaran volcanic alkaline lake depositional system (ca. 571 Ma) where microbial buildups accreted in an extreme environment. These microbial accumulations are exceptional not only for their diverse range of extreme conditions but also for their significance in understanding the early biosphere and earth's habitability. A description of these buildups provides insights into their Spatio-temporal distribution. The lower part consists of thrombolitic limestones, usually displaying irregular to patchy mesoclots, associated with composite and stromatolitic buildups. The upper part dominated by clastic stromatolites exhibits a variety of morphotypes ranging vertically from planar wrinkly laminated to large domes. The transitional morphotypes are made of linked and vertically oriented or inclined columns, grading upward to cone-shaped domes. The increase in laminated fabrics and the decrease in clotted fabrics toward the top of the section indicate that environmental conditions were likely suitable for coexisting both fabrics during microbial carbonate accretion. The demise of carbonate production at the late stage coincides with riverine input of clastic sediments, subsequently followed during low sediment input by growth of siliciclastic stromatolites.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50780,"journal":{"name":"Annales de Paleontologie","volume":"108 4","pages":"Article 102584"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48365964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}