• The Serbian Lake System: a stepping stone for freshwater molluscs in the middle Miocene 

  Neubauer, Thomas A.; Mandic, Oleg; Jovanovic, Gordana; Harzhauser, Mathias (Papers in Palaeontology, 2020)

  The first in-depth revision of a lacustrine freshwater mollusc fauna of the Serbian Lake System (SLS) is carried out. We describe and discuss well-preserved faunas from two localities in central and southern Serbia (Mađere ...

• Desert breath—How fog promotes a novel type of soil biocenosis, forming the coastal Atacama Desert’s living skin 

  Jung, Patrick; Baumann, Karen; Lehnert, Lukas W.; Samolov, Elena; Achilles, Sebastian; Schermer, Michael; Wraase, Luise M.; Eckhardt, Kai-Uwe; Bader, Maaike Y.; Leinweber, Peter; Karsten, Ulf; Bendix, Jörg; Büdel, Burkhard (Geobiology, 2019)

  The Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, presenting precarious conditions for biological activity. In the arid coastal belt, life is restricted to areas with fog events that cause almost daily wet–dry ...

• New insights into Southern Caucasian glacial–interglacial climate conditions inferred from Quaternary gastropod fauna 

  Richter, Christiane; Wolf, Daniel; Walther, Frank; Meng, Stefan; Sahakyan, Lilit; Hovakimyan, Hayk; Wolpert, Tilmann; Fuchs, Markus; Faust, Dominik (Journal of Quaternary Science, 2020)

  In the present study, we performed gastropod analyses on loess–palaeosol sequences from northeast Armenia (Southern Caucasia) covering at least three glacial–interglacial cycles. The elaborated ecostratigraphy shows ...

• Predatory drill holes in the oldest thyasirid bivalve, from the Lower Jurassic of South Germany 

  Karapunar, Baran; Werner, Winfried; Fürsich, Franz T.; Nützel, Alexander (Lethaia, 2020)

  Drill holes provide valuable information about palaeoecological interactions in fossil ecosystems, but the Jurassic drill-hole record is scarce. We report circular drill holes in the infaunal bivalve Eothyasira antiqua(Münster ...

• The first report of an ‘evergreen Castanopsis type’ wood (Fagaceae) for the Late Miocene–Early Pliocene of Europe (Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad Graben) 

  Mantzouka, Dimitra; Ivanov, Miroslav; Bozukov, Vladimir (Geological Journal, 2020)

  In the present article, the establishment of the species Castanopsis: C. bulgarica Mantzouka, Ivanov, and Bozukov is proposed after the study of a new fagaceous fossil wood stem discovered in 2016 from a new Late Miocene ...

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