Contents of Volume 62 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62 (4): 865–868, 2017

Issue 1 (published March 2017)

Editors’ choice

María J. Aris, Jose A. Corronca, Sebastián Quinteros, and Paolo L. Pardo

A new marrellomorph euarthropod from the Early Ordovician of Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–8

Mateusz Tałanda

Evolution of postcranial skeleton in worm lizards inferred from its status in the Cretaceous stem-amphisbaenian

Slavoia darevskii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–23

Articles

Rossana Sanfilippo, Antonietta Rosso, Agatino Reitano, and Gianni Insacco

First record of sabellid and serpulid polychaetes from the Permian of Sicily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25–38

Gérard Breton, Max Wisshak, Didier Néraudeau, and Nicolas Morel

Parasitic gastropod bioerosion trace fossil on Cenomanian oysters from Le Mans, France
and its ichnologic and taphonomic context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39–57

Gregor Radtke and Helmut Keupp

The dorsal shell wall structure of Mesozoic ammonoids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59–96

Ervīns Lukševičs, Pavel Beznosov, and Valdemārs Stūris

A new assessment of the Late Devonian antiarchan fish Bothriolepis leptocheira from South Timan (Russia)
and the biotic crisis near the Frasnian–Famennian boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97–119

Oleksandr M. Kovalchuk, Mark V.H. Wilson, and Terry Grande

A review of Neogene and Quaternary pikes of southeastern Europe and a new species from the early Pleistocene
of Nogaisk, Ukraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121–135

Leslie F. Noè, Michael A. Taylor, and Marcela Gómez-Pérez

An integrated approach to understanding the role of the long neck in plesiosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137–162

Manja Voss, Silvia Sorbi, and Daryl P. Domning

Morphological and systematic re-assessment of the late Oligocene “Halitherium” bellunense reveals
a new crown group genus of Sirenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163–172

Gregoire Metais, Ozan Erdal, Korhan Erturaç, and K. Christopher Beard

Tarsal morphology of the pleuraspidotheriid mammal Hilalia from the middle Eocene of Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173–179

Laureano Raúl González Ruiz, Agustina Reato, Martín Cano, and Oscar Martínez

Old and new specimens of a poorly known glyptodont from the Miocene of Patagonia
and their biochronological implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181–194

Santiago Hernández Del Pino, Federico D. Seoane, and Esperanza Cerdeño

New postcranial remains of large toxodontian notoungulates from the late Oligocene of Mendoza, Argentina
and their systematic implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195–210

Ismael Miján, Stephen Louwye, and Olivier Lambert

A new Beneziphius beaked whale from the ocean floor off Galicia, Spain and biostratigraphic reassessment
of the type species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211–220

Brief report

Artem Kouchinsky and Stefan Bengtson

X-ray tomographic microscopy tightens affinity of the early Cambrian Oymurania to the brachiopod stem group . . . . . . . . . 39–43

Issue 2 (published June 2017)

Editors’ choice

Lucio M. Ibiricu, Matthew C. Lamanna, Rubén D.F. Martínez, Gabriel A. Casal, Ignacio A. Cerda,

Gastón Martínez, and Leonardo Salgado

A novel form of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in a sauropod dinosaur: Implications for the paleobiology
of Rebbachisauridae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221–236
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Benjamin Gügel, Kenneth De Baets, Iwan Jerjen, Philipp Schuetz, and Christian Klug

A new subdisarticulated machaeridian from the Middle Devonian of China: Insights into taphonomy and taxonomy
using X-ray microtomography and 3D-analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237–247

Articles

William W. Korth

A new tribe of castoroidine beavers from the late Arikareean to Hemphillian (Oligocene–Miocene)
of western North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249–258

Hai-Bing Wang, Bin Bai, Yan-Xin Gong, Jin Meng, and Yuan-Qing Wang

Reconstruction of the cranial musculature of the paraceratheriid rhinocerotoid Pappaceras meiomenus
and inferences of its feeding and chewing habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259–271

Joseph A. Frederickson, Joshua E. Cohen, Tyler C. Hunt, and Richard L. Cifelli

A new occurrence of Dakotasuchus kingi from the Late Cretaceous of Utah, USA, and the diagnostic utility
of postcranial characters in Crocodyliformes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279–286

Alexander O. Ivanov, Christopher J. Duffin, and Serge V. Naugolnykh

A new euselachian shark from the early Permian of the Middle Urals, Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289–298

Yamouna Makhlouf, Bertrand Lefebvre, Elise Nardin, Ahmed Nedjari, and Christopher R.C. Paul

The diploporite blastozoan Lepidocalix pulcher from the Middle Ordovician of northern Algeria: Taxonomic revision
and palaeoecological implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299–310

Artem Kouchinsky, Stefan Bengtson, Ed Landing, Michael Steiner, Michael Vendrasco, and Karen Ziegler

Terreneuvian stratigraphy and faunas from the Anabar Uplift, Siberia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311–440

Brief report

Andrea Cau and Paolo Serventi

Origin attachments of the caudofemoralis longus muscle in the Jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273–277

Discussion

Joachim Szulc, Grzegorz Racki, and Adam Bodzioch

Comment on “An early Late Triassic long-necked reptile with a bony pectoral shield and gracile appendages”
by Jerzy Dzik and Tomasz Sulej . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287–288

Issue 3 (published September 2017)

Editors’ choice

Blair W. McPhee, Emese M. Bordy, Lara Sciscio, and Jonah N. Choiniere

The sauropodomorph biostratigraphy of the Elliot Formation of southern Africa: Tracking the evolution
of Sauropodomorpha across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441–465

Roberto Pronzato, Andrzej Pisera, and Renata Manconi

Fossil freshwater sponges: Taxonomy, geographic distribution, and critical review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467–495

Articles

Leonardo M. Carneiro and Édison Vicente Oliveira

The Eocene South American metatherian Zeusdelphys complicatus is not a protodidelphid but a hatcheriform:
Paleobiogeographic implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497–507

Hendrik Jan Van Vliet, Anne S. Schulp, Gebely A.M.M. Abu El-Kheir, Theo M. Paijmans, Mark Bosselaers, and Charles J. Underwood

A new Oligocene site with terrestrial mammals and a selachian fauna from Minqar Tibaghbagh,
the Western Desert of Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509–525

Agustín G. Martinelli, Marina Bento Soares, Téo Veiga de Oliveira, Pablo G. Rodrigues, and Cesar L. Schultz

The Triassic eucynodont Candelariodon barberenai revisited and the early diversity of stem prozostrodontians . . . . . . . . . . . 527–542

Federico Brissón Egli, Alexis M. Aranciaga Rolando, Federico L. Agnolín, and Fernando E. Novas

Osteology of the unenlagiid theropod Neuquenraptor argentinus from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549–562

Samuel L. Tutin and Richard J. Butler

The completeness of the fossil record of plesiosaurs, marine reptiles from the Mesozoic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563–573
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Dean R. Lomax and Sven Sachs

On the largest Ichthyosaurus: A new specimen of Ichthyosaurus somersetensis containing an embryo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575–584

Marcelo S. de la Fuente, Ignacio Maniel, Juan Marcos Jannello, Juliana Sterli, Alberto C. Garrido,

Rodolfo A. Garcia, Leonardo Salgado, José I. Canudo, and Raúl Bolatti

Unusual shell anatomy and osteohistology in a new Late Cretaceous panchelid turtle
from northwestern Patagonia, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585–601

Waymon L. Holloway, Kerin M. Claeson, Hesham M. Sallam, Sanaa El-Sayed, Mahmoud Kora,

Joseph J.W. Sertich, and Patrick M. O’Connor

A new species of the neopterygian fish Enchodus from the Duwi Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous,
Western Desert, central Egypt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603–612

Isabelle Deregnaucourt, Torsten Wappler, John M. Anderson, and Olivier Béthoux

A new triadotypid insect from the Late Triassic of South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613–618

Stephen Pates, Allison C. Daley, and Javier Ortega-Hernández

Aysheaia prolata from the Utah Wheeler Formation (Drumian, Cambrian) is a frontal appendage

of the radiodontan Stanleycaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619–625

Andrea Mancosu and James H. Nebelsick

Ecomorphological and taphonomic gradients in clypeasteroid-dominated echinoid assemblages along
a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate shelf from the early Miocene of northern Sardinia, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627–646

Yifan Xiao, Noritoshi Suzuki, and Weihong He

Applications and limitations of micro-XCT imaging in the studies of Permian radiolarians:
A new genus with bi-polar main spines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647–656

Brief report

Rodrigo T. Müller, Flávio A. Pretto, Micheli Stefanello, Eduardo Silva-Neves, and Sérgio Dias-da-Silva

On a dinosaur axis from one of the oldest dinosaur-bearing sites worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543–548

Issue 4 (published December 2017)

Editors’ choice

Steven C. Sweetman, Grant Smith, and David M. Martill

Highly derived eutherian mammals from the earliest Cretaceous of southern Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657–665

Kristyn K. Voegele, Matthew C. Lamanna, and Kenneth J. Lacovara

Osteology of the dorsal vertebrae of the giant titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur Dreadnoughtus schrani
from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667–681

Robert G. Jenkins, Andrzej Kaim, Kei Sato, Kazuhiro Moriya, Yoshinori Hikida, and Ren Hirayama

Discovery of chemosynthesis-based association on the Cretaceous basal leatherback sea turtle from Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683–690

Matilde Sylvia Beresi, Joseph P. Botting, Juan J. Palafox, and Blanca E. Buitrón Sánchez

New reticulosan sponges from the middle Cambrian of Sonora, Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691–703

Articles

Krzysztof Hryniewicz, Kazutaka Amano, Robert G. Jenkins, and Steffen Kiel

Thyasirid bivalves from Cretaceous and Paleogene cold seeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705–728

Jan Johan ter Poorten and Rafael La Perna

The West African enigma: Systematics, evolution, and palaeobiogeography of cardiid bivalve Procardium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729–757

Igor N. Kosenko

Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous oysters from Siberia: A systematic review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759–778

Piotr Szrek and Vincent Dupret

Placoderms from the Lower Devonian “placoderm sandstone” of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland
with biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 789–800

Lorenzo Marchetti, Matteo Belvedere, and Paolo Mietto

Lopingian tetrapod footprints from the Venetian Prealps, Italy: New discoveries in a largely incomplete panorama. . . . . . . . . 801–817

Denis A. Ponce, Ignacio A. Cerda, Julia B. Desojo, and Sterling J. Nesbitt

The osteoderm microstructure in doswelliids and proterochampsids and its implications for palaeobiology
of stem archosaurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819–831
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Jens N. Lallensack, Hendrik Klein, Jesper Milàn, Oliver Wings, Octávio Mateus, and Lars B. Clemmensen

Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from the Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland: Evidence
for Late Triassic sauropods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833–843

Bárbara Vera, Marcelo Reguero, and Laureano González-Ruiz

The Interatheriinae notoungulates from the middle Miocene Collón Curá Formation in Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845–863

Brief reports

Julián F. Petrulevičius

A new burmagomphid dragonfly from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779–783

Fabrizio Fanti and Janusz Kupryjanowicz

A new soldier beetle from Eocene Baltic amber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785–788

Book review

Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik and Jingmai K. O’Connor

The saga of birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844

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