The Bolca Lagerstätten: shallow marine life in the Eocene

M Friedman, G Carnevale - Journal of the Geological Society, 2018 - lyellcollection.org
The Eocene limestones around the Italian village of Bolca occur in a series of distinct
localities providing a unique snapshot of marine life in the early Cenozoic. Famous for its …

A synoptic review of the Eocene (Ypresian) cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) of the Bolca Konservat-Lagerstätte, Italy

G Marramà, G Carnevale, A Engelbrecht, KM Claeson… - PalZ, 2018 - Springer
Here, we review and discuss the records and taxonomy of the Ypresian (Eocene)
chondrichthyans from the famous Bolca Konservat-Lagerstätte in northeastern Italy. Despite …

Principal component and discriminant analyses as powerful tools to support taxonomic identification and their use for functional and phylogenetic signal detection of …

G Marramà, J Kriwet - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Identifying isolated teeth of fossil selachians only based on qualitative characters is
sometimes hindered by similarity in their morphology, resulting often in heated taxonomic …

Rise and fall of† Pycnodontiformes: Diversity, competition and extinction of a successful fish clade

JJ Cawley, G Marramà, G Carnevale… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract† Pycnodontiformes was a successful lineage of primarily marine fishes that broadly
diversified during the Mesozoic. They possessed a wide variety of body shapes and were …

Anatomy, relationships and palaeobiogeographic implications of the first Neogene holomorphic stingray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the early Miocene of …

G Marramà, S Klug, J De Vos… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The early Miocene stingray† Trygon vorstmani represented by a single specimen collected
from the fish-bearing limestones of the Tonasa Formation of SW Sulawesi, Indonesia, is …

Diversity, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental significance of the Eocene chondrichthyan assemblages of the Bolca Lagerstätte, Italy

G Marramà, G Carnevale, J Kriwet - Lethaia, 2021 - idunn.no
Over the last few years, the morphology, taxonomy and systematics of the cartilaginous fish
taxa of the two main sites of the Bolca Lagerstätte, Italy,(Pesciara and Monte Postale sites) …

The evolution of fast-growing coral reef fishes

AC Siqueira, HF Yan, RA Morais, DR Bellwood - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Individual growth is a fundamental life history trait,,–, yet its macroevolutionary trajectories
have rarely been investigated for entire animal assemblages. Here we analyse the evolution …

[PDF][PDF] Redescription of 'Perleidus'(Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the early Triassic of northwestern Madagascar

G Marrama, C Lombardo, A Tintori… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2017 - iris.unito.it
The revision of the material from the Lower Triassic fossil-bearing-nodule levels from
northwestern Madagascar supports the assumption that the genus Perleidus De Alessandri …

An Eocene paraclupeid fish (Teleostei, Ellimmichthyiformes) from Bolca, Italy: the youngest marine record of double‐armoured herrings

G Marramà, AF Bannikov, J Kriwet… - Papers in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A new double‐armoured herring of the clupeomorph order Ellimmichthyiformes,
Eoellimmichthys superstes gen. et sp. nov., is described herein based on a single partially …

Morphology, relationships and palaeobiology of the Eocene barracudina †Holosteus esocinus (Aulopiformes: Paralepididae) from Monte Bolca, Italy

G Marramà, G Carnevale - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The shallow water barracudina† Holosteus esocinus Agassiz, 1835, from the Eocene of
Monte Bolca, Italy, is redescribed in detail. This paralepidid taxon exhibits a unique …