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{"title":"The early fossil record of Caturoidea (Halecomorphi: Amiiformes): biogeographic implications","authors":"Adriana López-Arbarello, Andrea Concheyro, Ricardo M. Palma, Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00297-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00297-z","url":null,"abstract":"Caturoidea is a clade of Mesozoic predatory ray-finned fishes which lived mainly in the Jurassic. The clade has a few records in the earliest Cretaceous and only two in the Triassic. Among the latter, specimen MPCA 632 Caturus sp. doubtfully from continental Early Triassic of Argentina, i.e., outside Europe, was particularly problematic in the light of the known fossil record of the group, which suggested their origin in the Western Tethys. The micropaleontological and geochemical analysis of bulk-rock samples of MPCA 632 allowed us to correct the provenance of the specimen which corresponds to Tithonian marine outcrops of the Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquén, Argentina. Specimen MPCA 632 is excluded from Caturus and reclassified as Caturoidea sp. MPCA 632 might be a specimen of Catutoichthys olsacheri, the only caturoid known from the Vaca Muerta Formation (Los Catutos Member), but the fossils are not comparable and, thus, this hypothesis needs further study. Additionally, the first-hand study of the type material of the only other alleged Triassic caturoid, Furo insignis, in the Norian of Seefeld, Austria, led to the exclusion of this taxon from the Caturoidea. Consequently, the clade Caturoidea is restricted to the Jurassic–Lowest Cretaceous. After a modest evolution during the Early Jurassic, the group had its initial radiation and westward dispersion across the Hispanic Corridor during the Middle Jurassic and reached its maximal diversity during the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian.","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"296 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138526737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kasimovian (late Pennsylvanian) cornute rugose corals from Egypt: taxonomy, facies and palaeogeography of a cool-water fauna from northern Gondwana","authors":"Heba El-Desouky, Hans-Georg Herbig, Mahmoud Kora","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00296-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00296-0","url":null,"abstract":"A strongly endemic Upper Pennsylvanian (Kasimovian) rugose coral association consisting of small, mostly non-dissepimented, simple structured and poorly diversified species is studied from the lower member of the Aheimer Formation (Western side of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt). The unit is composed of grey, silty mudstone intercalated with thin, ferruginous, silty dolostone–limestone and calcareous siltstone beds. Ten taxa from four families were identified. Four species of the Antiphyllinae are new; Actinophrentis crassithecata n. sp., Lytvolasma aheimerensis n. sp., L. paraaucta n. sp. and Monophyllum galalaensis n. sp. Besides, Rotiphyllum exile de Groot, 1963 and Bothrophyllum okense Kossovaya, 2001 were identified; four taxa remain in open nomenclature (Lytvolasma cf. canadense, Zaphrentites cf. parallela, Zaphrentites sp. and Ufimia sp.). Rejuvenation, encrustation and bioerosion phenomena are rare. Attachment structures during mature stages are not evident; attachment scars in the apical parts are also rare. Growth patterns and embedding in the muddy deposits indicates that the corals lived as mudstickers in soft substrate. Recrystallization, dolomitization and ferrugination of open pore spaces inside the corals are the most common diagenetic features. The corals from the lower Aheimer Formation represent a typical cyathaxonid fauna that was adapted to high clastic input and turbid waters in a restricted, sheltered, episodically storm-swept inner ramp environment in an embayment of the southern shelf of the Palaeotethys. A time-averaged ramp model shows a regressive development from a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic open inner ramp setting during the Moscovian to the restricted inner ramp of the lower Aheimer Formation (Kasimovian) and following peritidal to fluvial environments of the Gzhelian. General and local palaeoclimatic considerations indicate cooling. Besides relations to northern Spain that root Egypt in the western Palaeotethys, connections existed via the Donets Basin (and the southern Urals) to the Cordilleran–Arctic–Uralian realm which is a cool water province during the Lower and Middle Permian. The Egyptian fauna appears to be a precursor of the anti-tropical cyathaxonid fauna of the latter time slice and also of the Lower Permian cool-water faunas of the east Cimmerian peri-Gondwana terranes.","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"75 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138526739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction: Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber","authors":"Alexandra Viertler, Karin Urfer, Georg Schulz, Seraina Klopfstein, Tamara Spasojevic","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00299-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00299-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Correction: Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (2023) 142:30 </b><b>https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00294-2</b></p><br/><p>Following publication of the original article (Viertler et al., 2023), we have been informed that there is wrong inventory number for one of the fossils.</p><p>The incorrect number is: #F02444</p><br/><p>The correct number is: NMB F3742</p><p>The original article (Viertler et al., 2023) has been corrected.</p><ul data-track-component=\"outbound reference\"><li><p>Viertler, A., Urfer, K., Schulz, G., Klopfstein, S., & Spasojevic, T. (2023). Impact of increasing morphological information by micro-CT scanning on the phylogenetic placement of Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in amber. <i>Swiss Journal of Palaeontology,</i> <i>142</i>, 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00294-2</p><p>Article Google Scholar </p></li></ul><p>Download references<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" height=\"16\" role=\"img\" width=\"16\"><use xlink:href=\"#icon-eds-i-download-medium\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\"></use></svg></p><h3>Authors and Affiliations</h3><ol><li><p>Natural History Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, 4051, Basel, Switzerland</p><p>Alexandra Viertler, Seraina Klopfstein & Tamara Spasojevic</p></li><li><p>Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland</p><p>Alexandra Viertler, Seraina Klopfstein & Tamara Spasojevic</p></li><li><p>Natural History Museum St. Gallen, Rorschacher Strasse 263, 9016, St. Gallen, Switzerland</p><p>Karin Urfer</p></li><li><p>Core Facility Micro- and Nanotomography, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Hegenheimermattweg 167 B/C, 4123, Allschwil, Switzerland</p><p>Georg Schulz</p></li><li><p>Biomaterials Science Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Hegenheimermattweg 167 B/C, 4123, Allschwil, Switzerland</p><p>Georg Schulz</p></li></ol><span>Authors</span><ol><li><span>Alexandra Viertler</span>View author publications<p>You can also search for this author in <span>PubMed<span> </span>Google Scholar</span></p></li><li><span>Karin Urfer</span>View author publications<p>You can also search for this author in <span>PubMed<span> </span>Google Scholar</span></p></li><li><span>Georg Schulz</span>View author publications<p>You can also search for this author in <span>PubMed<span> </span>Google Scholar</span></p></li><li><span>Seraina Klopfstein</span>View author publications<p>You can also search for this author in <span>PubMed<span> </span>Google Scholar</span></p></li><li><span>Tamara Spasojevic</span>View author publications<p>You can also search for this author in <span>PubMed<span> </span>Google Scholar</span></p></li></ol><h3>Corresponding author</h3><p>Correspondence to Alexandra Viertler.</p><p>Handling editor: Harriet Bethany Drage.</p><h3>Publisher's Note</h3><p>Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional af","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"34 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138526728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Santiago Roth and his scientific legacy: a reappraisal of the Swiss collections","authors":"Analía M. Forasiepi, Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00287-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00287-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 giant nautilid species from the Middle Jurassic of Luxembourg and Southwest Germany","authors":"Robert Weis, Günter Schweigert, Julian Wittische","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00290-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00290-6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In comparison to other cephalopods such as ammonites and belemnites, nautilid shells are relatively rare fossils in Jurassic marine deposits and knowledge of their taxonomy is therefore still patchy. We describe herein a new species of Cenoceras , C. rumelangense , from the early Bajocian Humphriesianum Zone of Luxembourg and Southwest Germany. In Luxembourg, the type material occurs in the ‘Marnes sableuses d’Audun-le-Tiche’ unit, which yields other large-sized cephalopods, such as the largest known belemnite genus, Megateuthis . The new species reaches a remarkable size, with diameters up to 610 mm. Thus, it is amongst the largest known post-Triassic nautilids worldwide, together with Paracenoceras giganteum and Paracenoceras ingens from the Upper Jurassic. Additionally, we discuss some aspects of the taphonomy of these large shells deposited in a shallow marine setting.","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135387546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early Pliocene otolith assemblages from the outer-shelf environment reveal the establishment of mesopelagic fish fauna over 3 million years ago in southwestern Taiwan","authors":"Chien-Hsiang Lin, Siao-Man Wu, Chia-Yen Lin, Chi-Wei Chien","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00288-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00288-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Understanding the diversity of deep-sea fish fauna based on otoliths in the tropical and subtropical West Pacific has been limited, creating a significant knowledge gap regarding regional and temporal variations in deep-sea fish fauna. To address this gap, we collected a total of 122 bulk sediment samples from the Lower Pliocene Gutingkeng Formation in southwestern Taiwan to reconstruct the otolith-based fish fauna. Using planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy, we determined the age of the samples to be 5.6 to 3.1 Ma. A total of 8314 otoliths were assigned to 64 different taxa from 33 families, including the discovery of one new genus, Gutingichthys gen. nov., and three new species: Benthosema duanformis sp. nov., Benthosema parafibulatum sp. nov., and Gutingichthys changi sp. nov. Comparisons with other regional otolith-based assemblages highlighted the exceptional diversity of our collection, making it the most diverse fossil fish fauna reported from Taiwan to date. Otolith diversity analysis revealed very few taxa were dominant in the assemblage, particularly the mesopelagic Myctophidae, with a wide variety of minor taxa. The co-occurrence of shallow-water elements suggests episodic storm events as a potential source. The predominance of deep-sea and oceanic fishes indicated an outer-shelf to upper slope environment, resembling the modern outer-shelf and upper slope fish fauna in the region. Our findings suggest an early establishment and persistent presence of the mesopelagic fish community since the Early Pliocene. Further investigations of the Upper Miocene and Pleistocene sections of the Gutingkeng Formation would provide valuable insights into the evolution of deep-sea fish fauna in the area.","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135388448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Convergent evolution and convergent loss in the grasping structures of immature earwigs and aphidlion-like larvae as demonstrated by about 100-million-year-old fossils","authors":"Carolin Haug, Gideon T. Haug, Christine Kiesmüller, Joachim T. Haug","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00286-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00286-2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Convergent evolution is a common phenomenon, independently leading to similar morphologies in different evolutionary lineages. Often similar functional demands drive convergent evolution. One example is the independent evolution of grasping structures in different lineages of Euarthropoda, though the exact morphology of these grasping structures varies significantly. In this study, we investigated grasping apparatuses with two movable counteracting structures as well as some related structures, exemplified by the stylets (compound structures of mouthparts) of aphidlion-like larvae (part of Neuroptera or lacewings) and the cerci of immature earwigs (Dermaptera). For the stylets of aphidlion-like larvae, studies have pointed to a significant loss in morphological diversity in the last 100 million years. We used quantitative morphology to evaluate if a similar process has also occurred in the cerci of earwigs. The cerci of extant immature earwigs exhibit two distinct types of morphologies in the modern fauna: elongated cerci divided into several ringlets with a feeler-type function, and pincer-like stout cerci. In some fossil immature earwigs, however, the cerci are generally elongated but undivided and roughly occupy the morphospace between those of the two modern cerci types; hence this fossil cerci morphology appears to have been lost. To some extent, a comparable loss is also found in certain lacewing larvae. Outgroup comparisons suggest that the morphologies no longer present today are in fact not ancestral, but instead specialised, hence their loss is possibly resulting from disruptive evolution in earwigs as well as lacewings. We discuss the possible functions of these specialised grasping structures.","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134960538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geochemical investigation of the mixed Máriahalom vertebrate fauna at the Paleogene–Neogene boundary in the Central Paratethys: environmental conditions and age constrain","authors":"L. Kocsis, M. Rabi, A. Ulianov, A. Cipriani, Izabella M. Farkas, Gábor Botfalvai","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00281-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00281-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"142 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43111354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"More than 100 years of a mistake: on the anatomy of the atlas of the enigmatic Macrauchenia patachonica","authors":"Hans P. Püschel, A. Martinelli","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00279-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00279-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"142 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48097203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cranial and endocranial comparative anatomy of the Pleistocene glyptodonts from the Santiago Roth Collection","authors":"Zoe M. Christen, M. Sánchez-Villagra, Kévin Le Verger","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00280-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00280-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"142 1","pages":"1-32"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42891824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}