Late Cretaceous species of Vologesia (Echinoidea, Cassiduloida) from northern Spain

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4306 (2) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
NILS SCHLÜTER ◽  
FRANK WIESE

A new species of the echinolampadid genus Vologesia, V. rollingstones sp. nov., is recorded from the lower Campanian of northern Cantabria (Spain). Additionally, material of Vologesia toucasi, of late Santonian age, is described from the same area; this species had previously been noted only for southern France. 

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustín G. Martinelli ◽  
Thiago S. Marinho ◽  
Fabiano V. Iori ◽  
Luiz Carlos B. Ribeiro

Field work conducted by the staff of the Centro de Pesquisas Paleontológicas Llewellyn Ivor Price of the Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro since 2009 at Campina Verde municipality (MG) have resulted in the discovery of a diverse vertebrate fauna from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Basin). The baurusuchidCampinasuchus diniziwas described in 2011 from Fazenda Três Antas site and after that, preliminary descriptions of a partial crocodyliform egg, abelisaurid teeth, and fish remains have been done. Recently, the fossil sample has been considerably increased including the discovery of several, partially articulated fish remains referred to Lepisosteiformes and an almost complete and articulated skeleton referred to a new species ofCaipirasuchus(Notosuchia, Sphagesauridae), which is the main subject of this contribution. At present, this genus was restricted to the Adamantina Formation cropping out in São Paulo state, with the speciesCaipirasuchus montealtensis,Caipirasuchus paulistanus, andCaipirasuchus stenognathus. The new material represents the holotype of a new species,Caipirasuchus mineirusn. sp., diferenciated from the previously ones due to the following traits: last two maxillary teeth located posterior to anterior edge of infraorbital fenestra, elongated lateroventral maxillo-jugal suture—about ½ the anteroposterior maxillar length—and contact between posterior crest of quadrate and posterior end of squamosal forming an almost 90° flaring roof of the squamosal, among others.C. mineiruswas found in the same outcrop thanCampinasuchusbut stratigraphically the former occurs in the lower portion of the section with no unambiguous data supporting the coexistance of both taxa.


Author(s):  
Ren Hirayama

A nearly complete shell of the genus Adocus (Adocidae; Pan-Trionychia; Cryptodira; Testudines) was collected from the late Cretaceous (Turonian) Tamagawa Formation of Kuji Group at Kuji City, Iwate Prefecture, northeast Japan. This turtle shows unique features such as the loss of cervical scute, extreme expansion of marginal scutes overlying costal plates, and exclusion of the humeral- pectoral sulcus from entoplastron. Thus, A. kohaku is erected as a new species. As A. kohaku shows most derived position of A. kohaku within this genus, morphological diversity of the genus Adocus seems to have occurred rather early in its evolution in Eastern Asia.


2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-242
Author(s):  
Wanda Truszkowska ◽  
Maria Dorenda

<i>Hypoxylon terricola</i> Milter, known from a single collection in Michigan in USA and three sites in Southern France, has been found in Poland; isolated from the soil under <i>Dactylis glomerata</i> L. culture and from the dishwater of the roots of <i>D. glomerata</i> L. groving in the vicinity of the spruce (<i>Picea abies</i>) (L.) K a r s t mountainers forest.


2020 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Danièle Gaspard ◽  
Sylvain Charbonnier

Many Cretaceous asymmetrical rhynchonellid brachiopods (Brachiopoda, Rhynchonellida) have long been considered as Rhynchonella difformis (Valenciennes in Lamarck, 1819). After a revision, Owen (1962) included the Cenomanian specimens from Europe in Cyclothyris M’Coy, 1844. Later, Manceñido et al. (2002) confirmed this decision and critically mentioned the name of another asymmetrical rhynchonellid genus from Spain, Owenirhynchia Calzada in Calzada and Pocovi, 1980. Specimens with an asymmetrical anterior margin (non particularly ecophenotypical), from the Late Coniacian and the Santonian of Les Corbières (Aude, France) and Basse-Provence (SE France) are here compared to specimens of the original Cenomanian species C. difformis. They are also compared to new material from the Northern Castilian Platform (Coniacian-Santonian, N Spain) and to Rhynchonella globata Arnaud, 1877 (Campanian, Les Charentes, Dordogne, SW France) and Rh. vesicularis Coquand, 1860 (Campanian, Charente, SW France). These observations document the great morphological diversity among all these species and lead us to erect a new species: Cyclothyris grimargina nov. sp. from the type material of Arnaud, and two new genera: Contortithyris nov. gen. including Contortithyris thermae nov. sp., Beaussetithyris nov. gen. including Beaussetithyris asymmetrica nov. sp. All of these brachiopods fundamentally present an asymmetrical state which origin is discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 881-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Ifrim ◽  
Wolfgang Stinnesbeck ◽  
José Flores Ventura

The cephalopods from Union y Progreso represent the first fossil assemblage described from the Parras Shale in Coahuila, Mexico.Pseudoschloenbachia(Pseudoschloenbachia) aff.P. (P.)mexicana(Renz, 1936),P. (P.)mexicana(Renz, 1936),Baculites haresiReeside, 1927, andMenabites(Delawarella)vanuxemi(Morton, 1830) have a geographically restricted occurrence.Didymocerasjuv. sp.,Menuitesjuv. sp.,Polyptychocerasjuv. sp.,Pseudoxybeloceras(Parasolenoceras)juv. sp., andScaphitessp. ex gr.S. hippocrepis(DeKay, 1828) are represented by juveniles and could not be determined to species level.Desmophyllites diphylloides(Forbes, 1846) is the only long-ranging, cosmopolitan species described from this assemblage. Three new species are described:Eutrephoceras irritilasin. sp.,Hypophylloceras(Neophylloceras)arturoin. sp., andTetragonites silencioensisn. sp. The morphotypeBaculitesn. sp. is also inferred to be distinct. The faunal composition of this assemblage indicates a late early Campanian age. This assemblage shows a high degree of endemism. The causes for this endemism are currently unknown and difficult to assess. Nevertheless, the generic composition of the Union y Progreso ammonite assemblage suggests a short-term early Campanian endemic event.


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