Late Devonian (Famennian) chondrichthyes from Mexico
The Paleozoic vertebrate fossil record from Mexico is very scarce and strongly biased by rock exposure, composed mainly of upper Paleozoic (Carboniferous and Permian) outcrops (e.g., Sánchez-Zavala et al., 1999; Poole et al., 2005; González- Rodríguez et al., 2013). In particular, the Mexican Paleozoic fish fossil record comprises a few isolated chondrichthyan scales and some semiarticulated symphysial tooth whorls belonging to the iconic shark Helicoprion, with ages ranging from the Late Carboniferous to the early Permian. The first reported Paleozoic fish from Mexico belongs to a semiarticulated symphysial tooth whorl of Helicoprion mexicanus from the Permian of Coahuila, near Las Delicia…
First occurrence of fossil vertebrates from the Carboniferous of Colombia
Data concerning Paleozoic vertebrates from the South American continent are still scarce. In Colombia, occurrences were until now restricted to the Late Devonian fish assemblage from Floresta and, ...
Trending topics in Spanish Palaeontology: Contributions from the XI Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores
The present volume represents a series of synthetic works presented at the “XI Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología”, which took place in Atarfe (Granada, Spain) on April 2013. During this meeting, more than thirty contributions were presented, offering a representative sample of the palaeontological state-of-the-art research currently developed in Spain. A small selection of these contributions is here presented, highlighting than most of them are first-authored by early-stage Spanish researcher who attended the aforementioned meeting. As stated above, our planet has evolved since its origin, in a similar wat that Palaeontology has evolved during the las decades. This evolu…
Sucesión de Polygnátidos (Conodontos) del Emsiense (Devónico Inferior) en los Pirineos Centrales Españoles
A comprehensive conodont study of five sections of Emsian age, carried out in the Spanish Central Pyrenees, has revealed an important succession of polygnathids that can be used for identifying basal boundaries of globally recognized biozones. This succession consists of Polygnathus excavatus excavatus, Po. gronbergi, Po. nothoperbonus, Po. mashkovae, Po. laticostatus, and the new species Polygnathus luciae that allows the identification of the excavatus, nothoperbonus and laticostatus Zones. The nothoperbonus Zone is further subdivided into Lower and Upper nothoperbonus subzones, relying upon the lowest occurrence of Po. mashkovae. These biostratigraphic data from the Spanish Central Pyren…