Palynological and mesofossil analyses of an Edmontosaurus bonebed from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation: Paleoecological insights

Nicolas Adrian Stagg¹, Haytham El Atfy¹, Dieter Uhl², Benjamin Bomfleur¹

¹Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Münster; ²Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt

Revisiting Hybodus and Mesozoic hybodontiform evolution

Sebastian Stumpf^1,2, Eduardo Villalobos-Segura², Bernhard Grabensteiner², Jürgen Kriwet²

¹Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria; ²University of Vienna, Austria

Soldier beetle larvae are much more common in the fossil record than previously anticipated

Simon Linhart¹, Joachim T. Haug^1,2, Ana Zippel¹, Olympia Salvamoser³, Patrick Müller⁴, Carolin Haug^1,2

¹Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Faculty of Biology, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany; ²GeoBio-Center at LMU, München, Germany; ³Technische Universität München, School of Life Sciences, Freising, Germany; ⁴Zweibrücken, Germany

Lignite-bearing strata from Central Mongolia reveals a unique Early Cretaceous paleoenvironment

Fritz-Lukas Stoepke¹, Ralf Littke², Thorsten Bauersachs², Alex Wheeler^1,3, Hitoshi Hasegawa⁴, Niiden Ichinnorov⁵, Ulrich Heimhofer¹

¹Institute of Earth System Sciences, Section Geology, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany; ²Institute for Organic Biogeochemistry in Geo-Systems, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; ³Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; ⁴Faculty of Science and Technology, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan; ⁵Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Two - most difficult to access - Devonian Fossil-Lagerstätten with normally very rare echinozoans, here excellently preserved as natural archives, one with a possible attempt to escape obrution, the other wih indications of a very special way of life.

Reimund Haude¹, Juan José Rustán², Mike Reich³, Tanja R. Stegemann⁴

¹GZG University Göttingen, Germany; ²Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra (CICTERRA) y Centro de Investigaciones Paleobiológicas (CIPAL), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina; ³3Landesmuseen Braunschweig / Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig, Germany; ⁴3Landesmuseen Braunschweig / Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig, Germany

New insights into the aquatic microfauna of the Lower Devonian Rhynie and Windyfield chert: an old ecosystem revisited

Carolin Haug^1,2

¹LMU Munich, Germany; ²GeoBio-Center at LMU, Munich, Germany