On the first month of 2018, one of the authors (VDC) of this preface had an interesting idea: to hold a virtual congress. At first, he did not know of the existence of this kind of congress, but a quick internet search ...

New mollusc and echinoid faunas are recorded from exposures of the Roca Formation at Cerros Bayos (La Pampa Province) and assigned to the Maastrichtian - Danian (CC26 - NP3 Zones of Martini 1971) on the basis of the ...

Archaeopteryx, which has often been considered the earliest avialan, is an iconic species, central to our understanding of bird origins. However, a recent parsimony-based phylogenetic study shifted its position from within ...

Ancient proteomics is being applied to samples dating further and further back in time, with many palaeontological specimens providing protein sequence data for phylogenetic analysis as well as protein degradation studies. ...

This year, 2020, marks the 150th anniversary of the seminal work by Giulio Curioni (1870), representing the first published scientific contribution on tetrapod footprints from Italy. We took this opportunity to discuss the ...

Se recuerdan y discuten las diferentes asignaciones genéricas de la especie Cerithium valeriae de Verneuil & de Lorière, 1868. Provisionalmente se propone dejar su atribución genérica abierta.

The fossil record of cetaceans documents how terrestrial animals acquired extreme adaptations and transitioned to a fully aquatic lifestyle. In whales, this is associated with a substantial increase in maximum body size. ...