Organizational structure of the Institute of Paleobiology - Institute Of Paleobiology Polish Academy of Sciences

09.01.2026 12:57

Life in a Devonian marine lagoon

The article presents an overview of marine environments that existed in the area of present-day Poland around 380–360 million years ago, during the Devonian period, when this region was covered by an extensive shallow and warm sea. This sea was oversaturated with calcium, a component of the common biomineral calcite.

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22.12.2025 14:21

A Miocene sedge from Hungary

The authors performed a taxonomic revision (in other words, a restudy) of silicified plant remains from the Miocene of Tokaj Mountains (Hungary). These are rhizomes, roots, and pseudostems, classified as Rhizocaulon huberi H.-J.Gregor.

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19.12.2025 15:08

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2026

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11.12.2025 23:14

Silurian erratic boulder travelling from Thuringia to England

An erratic chert pebble discovered in an exposure of the Pleistocene till in Norfolk, UK, contains graptolites and microfossils preserved three-dimensionally in silica. Graptolites indicate a Silurian (Llandovery) age.

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26.11.2025 11:03

Rudists: Extreme climate witnesses

Rudists, extinct bivalves with massive shells, built vast reefs in the tropical Cretaceous seas. Clumped-isotope analyses of well-preserved shells from Oman, were used to reconstruct seawater temperatures from 75 million years ago.

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19.11.2025 11:41

Crinoids with unusual morphology

In the prestigious series Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, a chapter was released that synthesizes data on the functional morphology and paleoecology of crinoids with unusual morphologies. It illustrates how, over more than 485 million years, they repeatedly deviated from their original body plan: from benthic forms to pelagic species.

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