{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
Carolin Haug, Gideon T. Haug, Christine Kiesmüller, Joachim T. Haug
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
L. Kocsis, M. Rabi, A. Ulianov, A. Cipriani, Izabella M. Farkas, Gábor Botfalvai
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
Zoe M. Christen, M. Sánchez-Villagra, Kévin Le Verger
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
{"title":"Triassic palynology of the Swiss Belchentunnel: a restudy of the Scheuring samples","authors":"E. Schneebeli-Hermann, E. Kustatscher","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00278-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00278-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47669114","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}
J. Carrillo-Briceño, Raúl I. Vezzosi, Keesha M. Ming, Zoe M. Christen, Dimila Mothé, Damián Ruiz-Ramoni, M. Sánchez-Villagra
{"title":"Nearctic Pleistocene ungulates from the Pampean region (Argentina) in the historical collections of Santiago Roth in Switzerland: an overview","authors":"J. Carrillo-Briceño, Raúl I. Vezzosi, Keesha M. Ming, Zoe M. Christen, Dimila Mothé, Damián Ruiz-Ramoni, M. Sánchez-Villagra","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00273-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00273-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42023473","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}
Damián Ruiz-Ramoni, J. Carrillo-Briceño, D. Voglino, F. Prevosti
{"title":"Carnivoran fossils from the Pampean region (Argentina): Santiago Roth collections in Switzerland","authors":"Damián Ruiz-Ramoni, J. Carrillo-Briceño, D. Voglino, F. Prevosti","doi":"10.1186/s13358-023-00274-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00274-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56059,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Journal of Palaeontology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46076456","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}