HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Taphonomy of modern communal burrow systems of the Plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus, Chinchillidae) in the Pampas region of Argentina: implications for the fossil record

Paleobiogeographical inferences of Indian Late Cretaceous vertebrates with special reference to dinosaurs

The story continues: recent advances on the life and death of the Pleistocene cave bear

The smallest of the largest: new volumetric body mass estimate and in-vivo restoration of the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon ex gr. P. falconeri from Spinagallo Cave (Sicily)

Pre-Quaternary wood decay ‘caught in the act’ by fire – examples of plant-microbe-interactions preserved in charcoal from clastic sediments

Redescription of Pelobates praefuscus Khosatzky, 1985 and new records of Pelobates from the late Miocene–Pleistocene of Eastern Europe

A new giant cricetine from the basal Pliocene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean): biostratigraphic nexus with continental mammal zones

Articular and vertebral lesions in the Pleistocene sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) from the Brazilian Intertropical Region

A new Idalina (Milioloidea, benthic Foraminifera) and some associated fauna from the upper Maastrichtian Tarbur Formation of SW Iran

Taxon sample and character coding deeply impact unstable branches in phylogenetic trees of dinosaurs

Cranial and mandibular morphology of Middle Pleistocene cave bears (Ursus deningeri): implications for diet and evolution

Additional specimens of Diceros (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotidae) from the Upper Miocene Nakali Formation in Nakali, central Kenya

Sequence stratigraphic analysis and sea-level history of the Upper Jurassic deposits (Mozduran Formation), south of Aghdarband, NE Iran

Paleogeography and neotectonics of Kaniv dislocations (Ukrainian Shield, Ukraine) in the Neogene-Quaternary period

New sawflies from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Syspastoxyelidae)

Eocene and Oligocene chitons (Polyplacophora) from the Paris and Hampshire Basins

The skeletons of Cyclops and Lestrigons: misinterpretation of Quaternary vertebrates as remains of the mythological giants

Indarctos and other Caniformia fossils of G.E. Lewis’ YPM collection from the Siwaliks

Praeornis sharovi Rautian, 1978 a fossil feather from the early Late Jurassic of Kazakhstan

Early Pleistocene Equus (Equidae, Perissodactyla) from Andersson Loc. 32 in Qixian, Shanxi, China

Quaternary evolution of the river Danube in the central Pannonian Basin and its possible role as an ecological barrier to the dispersal of ground squirrels

Intraspecific variation of Megalonychid sloths from Hispaniola and the taxonomic implications

Osteomyelitis in a 265-million-year-old titanosuchid (Dinocephalia, Therapsida)

A Middle Miocene (~14 Ma) vertebrate assemblage from Palasava, Rapar Taluka, Kutch (Kachchh) District, Gujarat State, western India

Brachiopod morphology, life mode, and crushing predation in the Ordovician Arnheim Formation, Kentucky, USA

Body mass and correlated ecological variables in the North American muskrat lineage: evolutionary rates and the tradeoff of large size and speciation potential

Tooth replacement in a specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana

Microanatomy and histology of bone pathologies of extant and extinct phocid seals

An unusual dinosaur track assemblage from the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, Anning formation, Lufeng Basin, China

The Libycosaurus (Hippopotamoidea, Artiodactyla) intercontinental dispersal event at the early late Miocene revealed by new fossil remains from Kasserine area, Tunisia

New data on the humerotriceps of penguins and its implications in the evolution of the fossa tricipitalis

Taphonomy and paleoecology of mammals preserved in swampy deposits (Formosa Province, Argentina): new light on a key environmental context for the evolution of Quaternary vertebrates in Southern South America

The first Similifaveoloolithidae (Wormoolithus luxiensis oogen. et oosp. nov.) from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, China

Callovian (Middle Jurassic) terebratulide brachiopods from the Jordan Valley (northwestern Jordan)

Early Cretaceous vertebrate and invertebrate fossils from Dariyan Formation, southern Iran

Bone microstructure of the pareiasaur Provelosaurus americanus from the Middle Permian of southern Brazil

Geometric morphometrics of large South American camelids and their potential for the taxonomical identification in archaeological sites of the northern Argentina

Expansion, speciation and a change of trophic niche: a case study of the Early Pleistocene ground squirrels Spermophilus polonicus and S. praecox

Accuracy of environmental reconstruction based on a blind test of micromammal evidence from East Africa

Locomotor adaptations of 7.4 Ma Hipparionine fossils from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and their palaeoecological significance

Trackways of Arthropleura from the Late Pennsylvanian of Graissessac (Hérault, southern France)

Paramyocastor diligens (Rodentia, Hystricomorpha) from Las Cañas Formation (Pliocene), northwestern Argentina

Palaeobiological assessment of some basilosauridarchaeocetes (mammalia, cetacea) and its affinity with recent odontocetes: new insights from Wadi El-Hitan, Fayoum, Egypt

Ground sloth vertebrae identification through multivariate analysis

A rediscovered Lower Jurassic ichthyosaur skeleton possibly from the Strawberry Bank Lagerstätte, Somerset, UK

Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of Spermophilus citelloides (Rodentia: Sciuridae: Xerinae), a ground squirrel from the Middle Pleistocene – Holocene of Central Europe

Climatic and landscape influences on the distribution and abundance of the Pleistocene small-mammal burrows of Ukraine