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AUTHOR
Sébastien Olive
Quoi de neuf en paléontologie du Paléozoïque ?
7 pages; National audience; En paléontologie,les XIXe et XXe siècles corres-pondentà la mise en place de l’anatomie comparée pour interpréter les fossiles, des corrélations stratigraphiques pour dater les terrains sédimentaires etd e l’usage de la biostratigraphie, de la paléoécologie et de la paléogéographie, plus tardivementde la paléobiologie etd e sacontribution à l’étude des crises de biodiversité, comme composantes des sciences de la Terre. La paléontologie du Paléozoïque n’a pas échappé à cesgrandes tendances. Elle a connu en particulier l’âge d’or dela biostratigraphie paléobotanique et paléopalynologique appliquée à l’exploration età l’exploitation des bassinshouillers du Nord – Pa…
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, ...
New insights into Late Devonian vertebrates and associated fauna from the Cuche Formation (Floresta Massif, Colombia)
New vertebrate remains are reported from the Late Devonian (?Frasnian) Cuche Formation of northeastern Colombia, including a new taxon of antiarch placoderm (Colombialepis villarroeli, gen. et sp. nov., previously reported as Asterolepis) and a new taxon of arthrodiran placoderm (Colombiaspis rinconensis, gen. et sp. nov.). We also report evidence of a stegotrachelid actinopterygian, a diplacanthid acanthodian (cf. Florestacanthus morenoi), a second antiarch placoderm (Bothriolepis sp.), a putative megalichthyid, and a putative tristichopterid. The absence of typical Euramerican markers, e.g., Asterolepis and Strepsodus, in this assemblage suggests that faunal interchange between Euramerica…
New insights into Late Devonian vertebrates and associated fauna from the Cuche Formation (Floresta Massif, Colombia)
New vertebrate remains are reported from the Late Devonian (?Frasnian) Cuche Formation of northeastern Colombia, including a new taxon of antiarch placoderm (Colombialepis villarroeli, gen. et sp. nov., previously reported as Asterolepis) and a new taxon of arthrodiran placoderm (Colombiaspis rinconensis, gen. et sp. nov.). We also report evidence of a stegotrachelid actinopterygian, a diplacanthid acanthodian (cf. Florestacanthus morenoi), a second antiarch placoderm (Bothriolepis sp.), a putative megalichthyid, and a putative tristichopterid. The absence of typical Euramerican markers, e.g., Asterolepis and Strepsodus, in this assemblage suggests that faunal interchange between Euramerica…