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This document describes the cooperation and collaboration of BHL and Plazi, oncommon goals. It outlines common goals and areas of common interests, andclarifies key areas of responsibility. The digital arena allows building a large corpus ofliterature and from that a “graph” of knowledge or knowledge graph throughidentification, extraction and linking of data. It provides an emerging access platformto the knowledge beyond the conventional traditional human-reader focused access.It allows new modes of access, including text and data mining, search, visualizationand the discovery of new findings based on the accessibility of data.

This report summarises the outputs of Deliverable 7.1 under Work Package 7 – the policy component of the ICEDIG project website. As described in Milestones 41-43, this deliverable comprises a dashboard showing outputs from the institutional policy analysis carried out in Task 7.1. This, along with further contextual information, has been embedded in a new section of the existing ICEDIG website (www.icedig.eu). The overall goal of WP7 is to “examine national, European and international policy commitments, and best practices to help design a comprehensive actionable policy framework for the development and operation of the new infrastructure”. This deliverable consolidates these aims by synthesising policy data and presenting it in an accessible way. The dashboards, alongside their descriptions and interpretations, provide a starting point for identification of common priorities and gaps between institutions. The web page also provides a platform where useful shareable policy documentation can be stored in the future, which may aid other institutions in their policy-writing decisions and strategies. This report illustrates these additions to the website and describes future planned developments to the web content. The new policy area is linked to both from the front page of the website, and from within the “Deliverables” page. Direct links to the pages are as follows: *Policy Analysis * Policy Methodology * Policy Data, Descriptions & Insights &nbsp

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eSolar has been designing small heliostats since the company's founding in 2007. One of the cornerstones of our approach to heliostat design is to deploy many factory-built small heliostats in high density fields. The fields are replicated and thus aggregated into solar plants supporting steam and molten salt electric power, integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC), and process heat applications, such as enhanced oil recovery and desalination. The small heliostat approach has been used in several pilot projects and was previously evolved into a commercially available product presented in 2011 at SolarPACES. In this paper we discuss the ground up redesign of our small heliostat hardware, with a focus of leveraging the proven approach into a higher reliability, globally applicable, more industrial, simple to source and most importantly total installed cost reduced solar collector product. During the redesign we discovered methods to simplify the design and confirmed that small, factory-built, affordable heliostats provide a compelling concentrated solar thermal technology. We discuss details on system optimization, concept selection and prototype development, including some results from design validation testing. Finally, we discuss how this new solar collector system (SCS5) performs and meets economic requirements. eSolar's SCS5 product will be commercially released early in 2014, and is currently available to quote for CSP projects.

Large faunal assemblages remain a concern in zooarchaeology. Without sufficiently large assemblages, interpretations about the past are less secure. The number of potential taxa in an assemblage is related to various factors such as the number of species found in an ecological zone, economic activities (hunting vs. farming) and taphonomy. In South Africa, no attempt has been made to determine what constitutes a sufficiently representative assemblage size, yet animal remains are frequently utilised to infer aspects of human behaviour during the past. We use faunal assemblages analysed using a standardised method, and we plot the number of taxa against the number of identified specimens (NISP). This way, we are able to determine the asymptote point of a faunal assemblage. Our initial study suggest that for subsamples, specifically those containing only large mammal remains, the asymptote is reached nearing 1000 NISP, whereas for those assemblages containing a full range of vertebrates and invertebrates, the asymptote is reached when the NISP nears 2000. The assemblages used are from different ecological zones and vastly different time periods, and each has its own taphonomic history. As a result, these asymptote points should not be considered as adequate samples for every faunal assemblage in South Africa. Instead, we advocate that zooarchaeologists analyse the largest possible assemblage to ensure more reliable interpretations are made from faunal remains. In many instances, only smaller assemblages are available; this is often beyond the control of the zooarchaeologist. Nevertheless, our data suggest that often, assemblages are adequate in size for archaeological sites as a whole; however, when comparisons are attempted between layers, occupational phases or spaces at a site, assemblage sizes are often severely reduced, requiring caution when making inferences about the past. publishedVersion

Palynological investigation of the transition Cretaceous / Paleogene (K/Pg) in a sequence from grey clay of the region of Eboinda (South-East of the Côte d'Ivoire).- The objective of this study is to specify the ages and deposit environments of a sequence of gray clays encountered in a well located in the region of Eboinda (south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire). A palynological analysis carried out on 10 marly samples of cuttings made it possible to date this series from the Upper Maastrichtian to the Danian. The Upper Maastrichtian is identified on the basis of the LADs (last appearance) of Dinogymnium muticum and Cerodinium granulostriatum, while the Danian is determined by the disappearance of Cerodinium diebelii, as well as the presence of the species Danea californica. The K/Pg transition is also marked by the passage from an internal neritic deposition environment (Upper Maastrichtian) to that of an internal to external neritic deposition environment (Danian). The association of dinoflagellate cysts observed (Suite de Malloy) suggests that these gray clays were deposited in tropical to subtropical provinces.

Gastropods from the Coral facies of the St-Ursanne Formation (middle Oxfordian) from the Swiss Jura. Part3. Caenogastropoda. - In the taxonomical part 40 species are described. New are the genera Ovalotrema n. gen. and Neuburgensia n. gen. New are also Saalensia lorioli n. sp., Loriolotrema? nododa n.sp., Cryptoptyxis? fortiter n. sp., Exelissa ursannella n. sp., Columbellaria rara n. sp. and Diempterus? multicostatus n. sp. 12 species are placed to another genus than before. A lectotype is designated for 8 species and a holotype because of monotypy for 4 species.

A Subboreal European bison (Bison bonasus) from the pit of La Cha (Injoux-Génissiat, Ain, France). - An incomplete skeleton of an European bison (Bison bonasus) was discovered by cave explorers in the Jurassian pit of La Cha, 1274m asl. The animal, dated from the Subboreal (Late Neolithic), is a small adult male. Its isotopic signature indicates a forest environment, confirmed by regional palynological analyzes. Other contemporary bisons have been discovered in the Jura at comparable altitudes.

The predatory stink bugs are well known by their behavior, but the knowledge of the immature morphology and their natural history are scarce. Studies on predatory stink bugs are important to better understand their evolution and their use as biological controllers. Here, we describe the morphology of egg and the five nymphal instars of Oplomus catena (Drury, 1782), using optical and scanning electron microscopy. In general, O. catena immatures are very distinctive from other Asopinae species already studied. The egg is black, with short aero-micropylar processes and similar to those described for Stiretrus species. The nymphs can be diagnosed by the abdominal plates very large and bright blue. The color polymorphism of adults is fully illustrated, and four color patterns are proposed. The natural history of the species is described based on field and laboratory observations. The known prey of the species is reviewed and new preys are reported. The morphological and biological traits here described are discussed in order to better understand the biological role of predatory stink bugs.

Assassin bugs (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) have diverse and complex morphological and behavioral adaptations for prey capture. Several of these morphological adaptations occur on the proleg. The prolegs of Emesinae are typically raptorial and they are used for grooming, grasping and hunting prey. Several morphological characters that define Emesinae as a group are found on the proleg, such as the anterior opening of the acetabula, the elongation of the procoxa, and the lateral (campaniform) sensilla on the protibia. Metapterini comprises 28 genera and approximately 280 described species, and are characterized by a conspicuous basal process of the anteroventral series of the profemur, and highly modified pretarsal structures. In this study, structures of the proleg are documented for 13 genera of Metapterini, using stereomicroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Detailed descriptions and digital macrophotographs are provided for most of the genera for the first time, and from this morphological documentation 38 phylogenetic characters are coded, presented as a data matrix, and analyzed cladistically, and their potential usefulness for resolving relationships among Metapterini is discussed.

The mapping of Phanerozoic rocks at 1:250000 scale by the Saudi Arabian Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources and the French Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, since 1980, covered most of the Jurassic outcrops in central Saudi Arabia. Stratigraphic, sedimentological and palaeogeographic studies provided a precise framework for the ammonite faunas which are the main purpose of the present monograph. These faunas have already been applied by the authors to build a biochronological scale specific to the Arabian province correlated with that of Western Europe, very different from the former scales of Arkell and Imlay. A first result of the palaeontological study is an update of the Arab biochronological scale (based on the faunas observable in the field) and correlations with Western Europe. In this paper 17 zones or horizons are recognized which, for the most part, are based on taxa specific to the Arabian Province, with two exceptions for which the low diversity forced to choose a Western Europe species (Stephani Zone and Athleta Horizon). The ammonites studied are more than 2143 specimens, of which 2013 could be determined on at least a generic level, and whose ages range from the Early Toarcian up to the Early Kimmeridgian. About 104 species are described (28 in open nomenclature), of which 10 are new. These are distributed among 45 genera including 3 new (Eoermoceras, Saudisphinctes and Alienisphinctes), within 14 families. These 14 families are represented, very unequally in relation to each other, but also for each of them in terms of the present and/or dominant genera. The five best represented families are the Hildoceratidae of the Toarcian (7 species), the Sonniniidae in the Bajocian (12 species, including 2 new ones), the Stephanoceratidae in the Bajocian (20 species including 15 for the Ermoceratinae, a new genus with 2 new species, and 2 other possibly new species), the Bajocian-Bathonian Oppeliidae (18 species, dominated by the Arabian genera Micromphalites, Thamboceras and Thambites, and Rebouliceras), and the Callovian Pachyceratidae (20 species) with two dominant Arabian genera, Pachyerymnoceras and Kurnubiella. The other families, Graphoceratidae, Hammatoceratidae, Strigoceratidae, Sphaeroceratidae, Spiroceratidae, Perisphinctidae, Tulitidae, Aspidoceratidae, and Ataxioceratidae (with a new genus and species), although less represented, include several forms known from Western Europe. These ammonites have a determinant role in correlations between the Arabic and European zonal scales. The palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographical setting of the Arabian ammonite faunas is the purpose of the third part of the monograph. The geographic distribution and composition of the successive faunas compared with the palaeoenvironmental conditions are dealt with, as well as the monospecific or monogeneric composition opposite to the more or less diversified faunas. The endemic character of the Arabian types, and their migration outside the Arabian Province which, together with the arrival in the Arabic domain of NW and/or Indian-Madagascan taxa, played a major role in the correlation of the biostratigraphical scales.

The mammal fossil remains collected on the top of a hill, near the Church of Santa Maria della Neve, in the village of Frattaguida (Parrano, south-western Umbria) were described. The bone remains show a peculiar feature of fossilization due to crystals of calcite that have replaced the bone marrow. Several taxa, such as Canis cf. C.arnensis, Mammuthus sp., Stephanorhinus sp., Equus stenonis, E.stehlini, Axis nestii, Eucladoceros ctenoides vel dicranios and Leptobos sp., were identified. The remains of E.stehlini represent a rare Italian occurrence of this small Villafranchian equid outside Tuscany. The concomitant occurrences of E.stehlini and A.nestii have permit to attribute the mammal assemblage to the Tasso Faunal Unit. This result agrees with previous geomorphological, morphoneotectonic and hydrographic observations on the Pornello-Frattaguida basin, specifying its chronology, and with the palaeogeographic evolution of south-western Umbria.

The cidaroid fauna of the Günsberg Formation.- The cidaroid fauna of the Günsberg Formation (middle Oxfordian, Bifurcatus Zone) is comprehensively revised here for the first time since the 19th century. We have identified a total of 9 cidaroid species. These can be assigned to the following genera: Paracidaris, Rhabdocidaris, Diplocidaris, Pseudodiplocidaris nov. gen., Plegiocidaris, Merocidaris. Diplocidaris bernasconii Bischof, Hostettler & Menkveld, 2018 is designated as type species of the new genus Pseudodiplocidaris.

A 0.10-0.50 metre thick lens of sandstone in the abandoned Comte quarry (La Bédoule, Bouches-du-Rhône France), has yielded an abundant ammonite fauna, including the index species of the upper Lower Cenomanian Mantelliceras dixoni Zone, previously unknown in the area. The fauna is dominated by the genus Mantelliceras (50% of the assemblage) together with diverse Tethyan and cosmopolitan species, and common Hyphoplites (18% of the assemblage), a typically (but not exclusively) Boreal genus; in contrast, Schloenbachia, the dominant Boreal Lower Cenomanian genus is absent, as elsewhere in the Basse Provence Gulf, in contrast to its common occurrence in the Vocontian Basin, north of the Durancian Isthmus. One new species, Stoliczkaia (Lamnayella) duboisi sp. nov., is described.

Lower Paleogene shallow marine carbonate rocks are exposed nearby the Shusf city in the Nehbandan area, East Central Iran. The sedimentary succession consists of siliciclastic rocks, siliciclastic-carbonate rocks, evaporitic rocks and carbonate rocks. The stratigraphic analysis of nearby the Shusf city allows to identify four informal rock units namely Palang, Chahchocho, Zibro and Debil formations in the study area. Likewise this paper introduces a detailed study of benthic foraminifera and four local assemblage zones from Selandian to Early Ilerdian age were established for the first time. These assemblages are correctable with the benthic foraminiferal assemblages from Adriatic area (Slovenia), Pyrenees (Spain) and Egypt. The wackestone facies contains the small and large porcelaneous foraminifera which accompany with small hyaline foraminifera, depositing approximately in the same depth in the inner ramp. The grainstone facies consists of hyaline foraminifera, which deposited in middle ramp. The distinctive characteristics of the middle ramp are thinning and flattening of the larger foraminifera shells. Ten microfacies types were recognized corresponding to ramp environment in three depositional settings (littoral, lagoon and barrier) based on sedimentological characteristics and foraminiferal assemblages. The identified microfacies are: evaporitic facies, siliciclastic facies, siliciclastic-carbonate facies, miliolid-pellet wackestone, Valvulina-miliolid wackestone, Alveolina-miliolid wackestone, green algal-Nummulites packstone, hyaline-porcellaneous foraminifera grainstone, hyaline foraminifera sandy limestone and hyaline foraminifera grainstone.

In this study, the teeth of cave bears from the Valsolda (Como province, near the boundary with Switzerland) have been morphologically and morphodynamically studied in order to indicate the possible evolutionary level of this population. These bears belong to the spelaeus group, and are found within the range of the Italian Alps populations that are generally characterized by medium size, at times higher, but featuring a rather simple dental surface with low or intermediate morphodynamic indices, and consequently a medium or in some case low evolutionary level. With these data only, it is impossible to define the species or subspecies (ingressus?, spelaeus ladinicus?) for the bears from Valsolda.

For the first time gastropods from the Meride Limestone (Ladinian) are documented. The material was collected from the outcrop Valle di Sceltrich at Monte San Giorgio (Southern Alps, Ticino, Switzerland) in the newly discovered Sceltrich beds. The taxa include Cryptonerita? sp., Coelostylina stotteri and Omphaloptycha cf. marianii. The findings represent the first identifiable Ladinian gastropods so far described from this UNESCO Fossillagerstätte and document the occurrence of several taxa of the clades Neritimorpha and Caenogastropoda from the Meride Limestone.

A sole couple of mating specimens of the extinct genus Globularia, an ampullinid gastropod is described from the Paleocene Chehelkaman Formation in the eastern part of the Kopet-Dagh Basin, northeast Iran. Difference in size between the mating specimens is an indication of sexual dimorphism, with the female being larger than the male in overall size. The data suggests that males of this taxon preferred to mate with large females. The identification of the larger individual as the female is confirmed by the presence of scars corresponding to the egg capsules that she carried on the dorsal part of the shell. This study is the second report of a mating behavior observed in the ampullinid fossil record. It is indicative of a rapid burial during coupling.

Note on the aurochs (Bos primigenius Boj.) from the Cave à l'Ours (Doubs, France), (Early Atlantic).- An aurochs skull was discovered in the "Cave à l'Ours" a cave of the French Jura located at 1200m asl. This piece is dated to the end of the Early Atlantic) (Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic) (6668 ± 98BP). This frontal can be attributed to a large bull, over 15 years old. The bases of horn cores show traces of extraction of horn sheaths.

The calcareous nannofossil assemblage from the Miocene succession that crops out in the Wadi Abu Qada basin, West Central Sinai, Egypt had been recovered to deduce biostratigraphic zonation. The studied stratigraphic section consists of two formations that assigned early to middle Miocene in age, and beginning with Rudeis Formation and unconformably followed by Kareem Formation. A comprehensive examination of the 154 samples collected from these rock units has led to the recognition of thirty-seven calcareous nannofossil species belonging to fourteen genera. The stratigraphic range of the recorded taxa has been used to frame the examined section into three calcareous nannofossil biozones (NN3, NN4, and NN5), and to attempt a correlation with successions both in Egypt and in different areas of the world. Furthermore, the Early/Middle Miocene boundary has been defined and discussed.

Carboniferous and Permian carbonate sequences in Japan are most completely preserved in the Akiyoshi Limestone in the Akiyoshi Terrane (Permian accretionary complex), Southwest Japan. The studied Sakmarian to lower Kungurian sequence is biostratigraphically divided into six zones: Globifusulina nux Zone and Globifusulina krotowi Zone (Sakmarian), Chalaroschwagerina vulgaris Zone (lower to middle Artinskian), Paraleeina magna Zone (upper Artinskian), Pamirina leveni Zone (uppermost Artinskian), and Miselllina dyhrenfurthi Zone (lower Kungurian) based on stratigraphic distribution and species composition of the fusuline faunas in Akiyoshi. These zones are compared and correlated to those in the Cisuralian stratotypes of the South Urals and Tethyan regions. Many fusuline species common in Akiyoshi and South Urals are discernible in the Sakmarian, and the Tethyan faunal elements become dominant in the Artinskian. Foraminifers consist of 117 species assignable to 53 genera in this study. Five fusuline species newly proposed are Chenella rhomboides, Praemisellina minensis, Chalaroschwagerina compacta, Paraleeina cubiformis, and Paraleeina toriyamai.

Most of the important specimens with dermal armor are illustrated for the plated dinosaur Stegosaurus from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic). These include specimens from Garden Park, Colorado and Como Bluff, Wyoming, collected in 1877-89 for O. C. Marsh, and from Utah. The holotype articulated skeleton from Garden Park of the neotype species of Stegosaurus Marsh, 1877, S.stenops Marsh, 1887, is a mostly complete articulated skeleton with all 17 dermal plates preserved. A set of 17 dermal plates (missing plates 3 and 5) and 2 pairs of tail spines from one individual of S.stenops from Como Bluff, is reassembled from three sets of adjacent osteoderms catalogued as separate specimens. An associated specimen from near Shell, Wyoming had 18 dermal plates, not 19 as reconstructed. Other non-Marsh specimens showing overlapping plates include another almost complete articulated specimen from Garden Park and partial skeletons from near Jensen, Utah and Grand Junction, Colorado. The form of the four pairs of terminal tail spines of the syntype of S.ungulatus Marsh, 1879 from Como Bluff represent two individuals, the larger spine pairs 1 and 3 and the smaller pairs 2 and 4. However, the flat distal tail spines, which were probably arranged dorsally as four pairs, are diagnostic. The anterior pair of tail spines are extremely massive in S.sulcatus Marsh, 1887 from Como Bluff. The spines with four subequal bases are extremely slender and elongate in S.longispinus Gilmore, 1914 from near Alcova, Wyoming, the type species of Alcovasaurus Galton & Carpenter, 2016 as A.longispinus (Gilmore, 1914), that was recently referred to Miragaia Mateus et al., 2009 from western Europe as M.longispinus (Gilmore, 1914). The different form of nuchal, dorsal and distal caudal plates from Utah indicate a possible new species of Stegosaurus. A cuirass of small throat ossicles is known only for S.stenops and one contains an embedded carnivorous theropod tooth. An isolated and dorsally incomplete "shoulder plate" from Como Bluff, which supposedly resembled some of the scutes of basal thyreophorans, is reoriented as an anterior dorsal plate with an extremely large base. The first published restoration showing the paired and alternating arrangement of the plates was by C.R. Knight in Lucas (1901a, b; four pairs of tail spines so referable to S.ungulatus). However, Lucas/Knight statuettes with this arrangement and two pairs of tail spines, so referable to S.stenops, still exist from 1899, 1903 and 1904. Lucas (1910a) was the first to publish evidence for such an arrangement. A detailed summary is provided of the subsequent discussion supporting a single median row versus two rows in pairs or as alternating plates. Chirality or external mirror asymmetry occurred in S.stenops with plate 14, the largest, directed towards the right or to the left, but the dermal plates do not exhibit the sexual dimorphism present in Hesperosaurus, another Morrison stegosaur. The proposed functions for the dermal osteoderms of stegosaurs are discussed. These include lateral display for species recognition and sexual interactions, with the plates also involved in different degrees of thermoregulation. In Stegosaurus the tail was held high, so parallel to the ground, and it bore tail spines that were directed laterally and only slightly dorsally so they could function better as defensive and offensive weapons. Spines of juvenile to adult individuals of Stegosaurus retain the plesiomorphic histology with a thin cortex and thick cancellous bone, which was suitable for display but not useful as a weapon. However, the spines of old adult individuals, with a thick cortex and a large central canal, made excellent weapons. Isolated stegosaur tail spines are from old adult individuals, the thick cortex of which favoured preservation.

La collection Boutillier conservée à l'Université de Caen Normandie (France) fait partie des rares collections paléontologiques constituées en Normandie au XIXe siècle à avoir été sauvegardées, tout au moins en partie, jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Cet article présente une première biographie de Louis Boutillier et détaille le contexte historique dans lequel sa collection fut constituée. Une première revue des vertébrés mésozoïques qu'elle contient est proposée. A côté d'un ensemble de pièces provenant de sites étrangers réputés comme Lyme Regis en Angleterre, Holzmaden en Allemagne ou Sunderland aux Etats-Unis, cet inventaire met en évidence plusieurs ensembles fauniques régionaux français dont certains proviennent de formations aujourd'hui difficiles d'accès, voire inaccessibles. Les spécimens de la collection Boutillier proviennent notamment des calcaires du Muschelkalk supérieur (Anisien supérieur/Ladinien) de la région de Lunéville en Lorraine ou d'Oberbronn en Alsace, des Argiles à Poissons du Toarcien inférieur de La Caine, des formations callovo-oxfordiennes des côtes du Calvados, des Marnes et Calcaires à Nanogyra virgula du Kimméridgien d'Alligny-Cosne, des argiles kimméridgiennes de la région du Havre, des formations du Jurassique supérieur de Boulogne-sur-Mer, des formations albiennes de l'est de la France et de la craie du Crétacé supérieur de Normandie et de la région parisienne. Parmi les pièces les plus remarquables qui ont pu être retrouvées est à signaler une des vertèbres du « mégalosaure d'Alligny », découvertes par le médecin et naturaliste Charles Roussel de Vauzème et signalées par Paul Gervais en 1848, qui s'avèrent appartenir à un plésiosaure colymbosaurine. A été également redécouvert un des premiers restes de ptérosaures trouvés en France, identifiable de manière incontestable. Ce spécimen, trouvé par Louis Boutillier en personne dans le Kimméridgien de la région du Havre, fut signalé pour la première fois par Gustave Lennier dans un ouvrage publié en 1868

Lithostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of Messinian deposits of the north eastern termination of Ouled Ali Mounts (Lower Chelif basin, NW Algeria).- Lithostratigraphic description and palaeoenvironmental study of Messinian outcrops located on the southern edge of the Lower Chelif basin (NW Algeria) are described in the present paper. The study is based on the analysis of geological sections situated on the south and the northernmost terminations of Djebel Aoud Sma in Sig area. In this study, three main lithostratigraphic formations are identified and interpreted on the environmental plan : (i) Greyish marls, attributed to the Messinian and deposited in an outer shelf ; (ii) Diatomites, characterized by pure and marly diatomites deposited in a shallow marine setting ; (iii) Limestones, corresponding to reefal and peri-reefal limestones, subdivided into five distinct facies. Also, Halimeda-rich facies has been recorded in the Haoudh el Matmar. This facies is well known in the Messinian west Mediterranean carbonate platforms, and indicates important environmental changes. It is considered as an index level which allows correlating the Tessala-Beni Chougrane platform with the other Messinian carbonate platforms of the Mediterranean.

The Carinthian Rubus flora is updated. In the course of this, several taxa are published here the first time for the Carinthian flora (Rubus austromoravicus, R. bicolor, R. grabowskii, R. pericrispatus, R. perperus, R. phoenicolasius and R. stimulifer). For many other Rubus species, additional findings are presented, and the knowledge of distribution is enlarged., [german title] Die Rubus-Flora Kärntens – Aktualisierte und kommentierte Checkliste der Gattung Rubus für Kärnten, inklusive Fundortsergänzungen [German abstract] Die vorliegende Arbeit bringt eine Aktualisierung des Kenntnisstandes der Rubus-Flora Kärntens. Dabei werden Rubus austromoravicus, R. bicolor, R. grabowskii, R. pericrispatus, R. perperus, R. phoenicolasius und R. stimulifer erstmals für Kärnten publiziert. Für etliche weitere Arten werden ergänzende Funde gemeldet und die Verbreitung aktualisiert.

Carex punctata is reported as a new taxon for the flora of Vienna. The species has been found at the maturation pond of the Marchfeldkanal in the 21st District of Vienna (Floridsdorf). Many other species are reported here as new for this part of Vienna., [German title] Carex punctata (Cyperaceae) am Marchfeldkanal, ein Neuankömmling für die Flora Wiens [German abstract] Es wird über Carex punctata als Neuzugang der Flora Wiens berichtet. Eine Population dieser Art wurde beim Schönungsteich des Marchfeldkanals im 21. Wiener Gemeindebezirk (Floridsdorf) gefunden. Zahlreiche weitere Arten wurden bereits für den Schönungsteich als neu für diesen Stadtraum Wiens gemeldet; diese Funde werden hier zusammengefasst.

A newly collected Toarcian Ammonitina material from Bakonycsernye (Hungary) is described and illustrated. Detailed ammonite biochronostratigraphical scheme is introduced for the Toarcian sequences of the Hungarian Transdanubian Central Range. Diverse Middle-Upper Toarcian Hammatoceratoidea (Hammatoceratidae and Erycitinae) assemblage is presented; Mediterranean and NW European faunal affinities are briefly discussed. Two new Cagliceras species are designated: C.baldii nov. sp. and C.wegeneri nov. sp.

The Upper Albian ammonite faunas of the Kiamichi, Duck Creek and Fort Worth Formations of north-east Texas are revised. A total of 49 species are described, including the following new taxa of Mortoniceratinae: Mortoniceratoides elegans sp. nov. from the Kiamichi Formation, Elobiceras (Craginites) sparcicostatum sp. nov., Elobiceras (Craginites) simplex sp. nov, Paracraginites conlini gen. et sp. nov., Pervinquieria (Pervinquieria) asper sp. nov., Pervinquieria (Deiradoceras) serpentiforme sp. nov., Angolaites elegans sp. nov., and Lasswitzia gen. nov., with type species Lasswitzia minima (Lasswitz, 1904), all from the Duck Creek Formation. An ontogenetic series of Ammonites vespertinus Morton, 1834, the type species of Mortoniceras Meek, 1876, shows it to be generically distinct from Pervinquieria Böhm, 1910. The zonal scheme recognized in north-east Texas is correlated with that developed in Western Europe.

Middle to Upper Jurassic platform and slope deposits, called Esfandiar Limestone Formation and Qale Dokhtar Formation, respectively are widespread in the Shotori Mountains, east-central Iran and contain minor reef and reefal limestones. Together with the silty Middle-Upper Jurassic Baghamshah Formation they contain abundant sponges, including hexactinellids, lithistids, demospongids (mainly chaetetids) and calcispongids ("pharetronids"). The following sponge taxa are described in this paper: Endostoma intermedia (Münster), E.perplexa (Quenstedt), E.stellata n. sp., Eudea perforata (Quenstedt), E.maxima n. sp., Pareudea bronni (Münster), P.gemella (Quenstedt), Preperonidella tabasensis n. sp., P. cf. tabasensis, P. sp.1, P. sp. 2, P. sp. 3, Polyendostoma? regularis n. sp., P.? irregularis n. sp., Seriespongia iranica n. gen., n. sp., and Iniquispongia iranica n. gen., n. sp. The most abundant taxon in the collection is Preperonidella represented by several species.

Les faciès messiniens pré-évaporitiques de la bordure sud (orientale et occidentale) du bassin du Bas Chélif ont révélé la présence d'une association fossile de bivalves ptériomorphes et hétérodontes assez riche et diversifiée. L'inventaire taxonomique a permis de recenser 35 espèces et 16 familles, à dominance de coquilles calcitiques. L'approche éco-taphonomique suggère la mise en place de trois associations fauniques, dont chacune caractérise un environnement spécifique : 1. L'association des grands pectinidae et gryphaeidae de l'infralittoral, 2. L'association d'endobiontes et d'épibiontes des environnements diatomitiques confinés, 3. L'association d'endobiontes et d'épibiontes des grès et des carbonates biodétriques de moyenne profondeur.

Gastropods from the Coral facies of the St-Ursanne-Formation (middle Oxfordian) from the Swiss Jura. Part 2. Patellogastropoda and Vetigastropoda.- Some localities of the gastropod bearing St-Ursanne Formation are presented herein. Described in detail are the locations La Caquerelle and Rieji near Roggenburg. All in all could be found 32 species from Patellogastropoda and Vetigastropoda. New are the genera Oxfordina n. gen., Helvetataphrus n.gen. and Pseudangaria n.gen. as well as the species Patella staceata n.sp., Emarginula rara n.sp., Rimulopsis torulosus n.sp., Chilodonta tricostatula n.sp. and Cochleochilus? spiralocostatus n.sp. The genus membership is changed for or 13 species and 4 species are listed under open nomenclature. A lectotypus is determined for 5 species. Finally are discussed the facial conditions of the Chestel and Buix Members (St-Ursanne Formation) and the dependance of the gastropods from these conditions.

In this paper, to study biostratigraphy of Paleogene deposits based on foraminifera fauna in NW of Jiroft located in the Central Iran zone, two stratigraphic sections, namely Sabzevaran (354m) and Sad (132m) sections were selected. Planktonic foraminifera and large benthic foraminifera were identified in both sections. Faunal assemblages and vertical distribution of identified species support presence of 5 planktonic foraminiferal and 2 large benthic foraminiferal biozones in the Sabzevaran section showing Middle Eocene to Chattian age. In addition, presence of planktonic foraminiferal assemblage along with 2 large benthic foraminiferal biozones confirms the Late Eocene to Chattian age for the Sad section.

Aeshna juncea is reported from Armenia for the first time on the basis of voucher specimens and photographic records. On 30-vii-2018 a putative pair was photographed, and on 3- and 4-viii-2019 several specimens were photographed and examined in the hand. The occurrence of A. juncea in the Caucasus region as well as its puzzling regional distribution in relation to its congener A. serrata is summarized and discussed.

This study describes the fauna of odonates of nine localities in the Zapata peninsula in the south west of Cuba, sampled in June 2017, January 2018, and September 2019. We failed to find Enallagma truncatum, an endemic species of the area, even though we visited the type locality, Zarabanda, in June and January. We found 37 species in 25 genera and five families, including the first records of 11 taxa for the area: Lestes forficula, L. tenuatus, Leptobasis candelaria, Neoneura maria, Aphylla caraiba, Celithemis eponina, Crocothemis servilia, Erythemis plebeja, Erythrodiplax berenice naeva, Perithemis domitia and Tramea onusta. A dichotomous key for the separation of the four species of females of Cuban Lestes is given.