Any references about insects or animals that can damage or weathering of rock or fossil material?

Are there any references to insects or animals that can cause damage or weathering to the rock or fossil material? books or paper that would be nice. Thank you very much!

24 February 2021 6,805 3 View

Is this the fragment of a sauropod tooth?

Dear colleagues. Fragments of this species are very rare from a terrestrial Lower Cretaceous locality from Germany. Up to now from this locality sauropods could not be proved with certainty. Other...

14 February 2021 2,310 1 View

Does someone know which structure could exit the olfactory bulbs at their antero-dorsal top ?

Hi people, I am studying bat brains through endocranial casts and I cannot identify which structure could be present in sort of a canal located dorsally to the cribriform plate. It is like...

27 January 2021 797 6 View

Which is the most recent and updated classification of Class: Insecta?

Based on the many publications from several decades, we came across many classifications of Insects. Among them which one is more updated and approved classification that can be used for research,...

05 January 2021 3,668 9 View

How can we say a species of insects got extinct?

02 January 2021 4,232 10 View

Hybodontiformes - last survivors?

Hello Everyone, I just ran into the work of Boisvert et al., 2019, in which I found fig. 4.2 a bit confusing. It shows, that Hybodontiformes (pale green) survived till the Miocene, however, as...

13 December 2020 5,180 3 View

Since I am design automatized grader for forest seeds, it is important for me to know the following?

1. Is there a difference between a dormant seed, for example, of Scots pine, a fossilized dead seed, and an active live one by spectrometric or other characteristics? 2. Is it possible to...

26 November 2020 9,275 2 View

Which are the drawbacks of using a medical CT for scanning fossils?

I am in the need of scanning some fossils for analyzing their inner structure. Unfortunately I don't have access to a proper CT or micro-CT of industrial use that suits nicely fossils and neither...

16 November 2020 1,748 6 View

Is there any report of commensalic/parasitic/symbiotic relationship between fossil communities from Indian examples?

I would like to collect and understand information on commensalic/parasitic/symbiotic interactions among fossil communities from Indian geological records. if there are any reports/publications in...

14 October 2020 6,253 1 View

A white mass inside the head of a cretaceous ant. What can it be?

I have a small piece of Burmese amber with a worker of the stem ant Gerontoformica sp. When focusing the head using incident light, it can be seen a white bilateral structure with several lateral...

26 August 2020 9,688 10 View