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Hey everyone - hope you're all well Wanted to share this (in part cause I'm half Romanian ).. It's a conference poster presenting some recent research findings regarding a productive vertebrate microsite from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Hatzeg Basin (Romania). It reports some new micro-vertebrate material, including crocodile teeth, lil' bones and even eggshell. Voicu, Vasile & Csiki-Sava (2018). The Cretaceous Swamp just gets bigger: new data on the faunal composition of the Pui Swamp microvertebrate bonebed, Maastrichtian of the Haţeg Basin. The Tenth International Zoological Congress of “Grigore Antipa” Museum, 21-24 November 2018, Bucharest, Romania Here's a link to the poster from where you can download a pdf of it : Voicu et al. 2018 Hatzeg poster -Christian

Specimen was found using a sifting method at or around 1 feet of water in the banks of the Caloosahatchee River. Among other finds in same 2sq meters where angulosplenials, there is no way to take those into the Species level but are without doubt representations of the Ranidae Family. Also found was portion of a fossilized pelvis of what appear to be Deer (this is not corroborated to the Species), numerous scales of the fish family Lepisosteidae (Garfish), other unidentified but likely amphibian bones, 2 shark teeth (yet to be identified), unidentifiable bone fragments no larger than 2 inches, Drum fish teeth, unidentifiable teeth fragments, yet to be identified Cat Fish dorsal spikes and an innumerable variety of mollusk fossils. The presence of both amphibians and sharks in this locality demonstrate that within the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Epochs this area of Glades County, FL was at one point lacustrine and at another a shallow sea environment. One can only speculate that there was intense glacial activity within such time frame.

These are a few of the pdf files (and a few Microsoft Word documents) that I've accumulated in my web browsing. MOST of these are hyperlinked to their source. If you want one that is not hyperlinked or if the link isn't working, e-mail me at joegallo1954@gmail.com and I'll be happy to send it to you. Please note that this list will be updated continuously as I find more available resources. All of these files are freely available on the Internet so there should be no copyright issues. Articles with author names in RED are new additions since November 22, 2017. Class Amphibia "Amphibia" sensu lato General Amphibia General Amphibia - Africa/Middle East Kitching, J.W. (1978). The Stratigraphic Distribution and Occurrence of South African Fossil Amphibia in the Beaufort Beds. Palaeont.afr., 21. van Dijk, D.E. (1995). African Fossil Lissamphibia. Palaeont.afr., 32. General Amphibia - Europe (including Greenland and Siberia) Boyd, M.J. (1980). The Axial Skeleton of the Carboniferous Amphibian Pteroplax cornutus. Palaeontology, Vol.23, Part 2. Llona, A.C.P. and P.J. Andrews (1999). Amphibian taphonomy and its application to the fossil record of Dolina (middle Pleistocene, Atapuerca, Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 149. Noble, G.K. (1928). Two New Fossil Amphibia of Zoogeographic Importance from the Miocene of Europe. American Museum Novitates, Number 303. Panchen, A.L. (1973). On Crassigyrinus scoticus Watson, A Primitive Amphibian from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland. Palaeontology, Vol.16, Part 1. Rage, J.C. and M. Augé (2003). Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the lower Eocene of Silveirinha (Portugal). Ciências da Terra (UNL), Number 13. Rocek, Z. (2005). Late Miocene Amphibia from Rudabanya. Palaeontographia Italica, 90. Rocek, Z. and M. Wuttke (2010). Amphibia of Enspel (Late Oligocene, Germany). Palaeobio Palaeoenv, 90. Werneburg, R. and J.W. Schneider (2006). Amphibian biostratigraphy of the European Permo-Carboniferous. In: Non-Marine Permian Biostratigraphy and Biochronology. Lucas, S.G., G. Cassinis and J.W. Schneider (eds.), Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 265. General Amphibia - North America Anderson, J.S., et al. (2008). A stem batrachian from the Early Permian of Texas and the origin of frogs and salamanders. Nature, Vol.453. Chantell, C.J. (1971). Fossil Amphibians from the Egelhoff Local Fauna in North-Central Nebraska. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology - The University of Michigan, Vol.23, Number 15. Hecht, M.K. and R. Estes (1960). Fossil Amphibians from Quarry Nine. Yale Peabody Museum Postilla, Number 46. Holman, A.J. (1969). The Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas. Publications of the Museum - Michigan State University, Biological Series, Vol.4, Number 5. Lucas, S.G., et al. (2001). First record of Amphisauropus and Varanopus in the Lower Permian Abo Formation, central New Mexico. Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss., B23. Moodie, R.L. (1916). The Coal Measures Amphibia of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington. (35.9MB download) Moodie, R.L. (1909). A Contribution to a Monograph of the Extinct Amphibia of North America. New Forms from the Carboniferous. The Journal of Geology. Ziegler, K.E., S.G. Lucas and A.B. Heckert (2002). Taphonomy of the Late Triassic Lamy Amphibian Quarry (Garita Creek Formation: Chinle Group), Central New Mexico. In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology. Heckert, A.B. and S.G. Lucas (eds.), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin Number 21. General Amphibia Carroll, R.L. (1969). A New Family of Carboniferous Amphibians. Palaeontology, Vol.12, Part 4. Marjanovic, D. (2010). Phylogeny of the limbed vertebrated with special consideration of the origin of the modern amphibians. Ph.D. Dissertation - Universitat Wien. Rocek, Z. (1991). Ethmoidal Endocranium in primitive Triassic amphibians. Palaont.Z., 65(3/4). Roelants, K., et al. (2007). Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians. PNAS, Vol.104, Number 3. San Mauro, D., et al. (2005). Initial Diversification of Living Amphibians Predated the Breakup of Pangaea. The American Naturalist, Vol.165, Number 5. Schoch, R.R. and A.R. Milner (2004). Structure and implications of theories of the origin of lissamphibians. In: Recent Advances in the Origin and Eary Radiation of Vertebrates. Arratia, G., M.V.H. Wilson and R. Cloutier (eds.), Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich. van Bocxlaer, I., et al. (2006). Late Cretaceous Vicariance in Gondwanan Amphibians. PLoS ONE, 1(1). (Read on-line or download a copy.) Zardoya, R. and A. Meyer (2001). On the origin of and phylogenetic relations among living amphibians. PNAS, Vol.98, Number 13.

I can't figure out what kind of bone that is and what kind of animal it belongs. It is probably part of fish, amphibia, but maybe it can be pray of bird that was flying over a lake and drop it... Please someone help me...