Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4) 2012

Thirty odd years after Alvarez's discovery: Faunal evolution and principal bio−events of the Cretaceous Period - recent progress and future directions


Preface

Thirty odd years after Alvarez’s discovery: Faunal evolution and principal bio−events of the Cretaceous Period —recent progress and future directions

Guest editors: Elena A. Jagt−Yazykova and John W. M. Jagt

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 675-676 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.1000

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Introductory note

A flashback on the dawn of the meteorite impact/extinction theory

Jan Smit

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 677-679 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0164

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Nota bene

Ernst Julius Öpik, an undervalued Estonian precursor of the Alvarez impact catastrophism

Grzegorz Racki

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 680-680 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.1001

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Articles

The Alvarez impact theory of mass extinction; limits to its applicability and the "great expectations syndrome"

Grzegorz Racki

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 681-702 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0058

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Short-term survival of ammonites in New Jersey after the end-Cretaceous bolide impact

Neil H. Landman, Matthew P. Garb, Remy Rovelli, Denton S. Ebel, and Lucy E. Edwards

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 703-715 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0068

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The last Cretaceous ammonites in Latin America

Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Christina Ifrim, and Christian Salazar

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 717-728 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0042

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Terminal Maastrichtian ammonites from Turkmenistan, Central Asia

Marcin Machalski, John W. M. Jagt, Alexander S. Alekseev, and Elena A. Jagt-Yazykova

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 729-735 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0110

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Ammonite faunal dynamics across bio-events during the mid- and Late Cretaceous along the Russian Pacific coast

Elena A. Jagt-Yazykova

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 737-748 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0076

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Ammonoid biodiversity changes across the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary in the Yezo Group, Hokkaido, Japan

Ken’ichi Kurihara, Seiichi Toshimitsu, and Hiromichi Hirano

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 749-757 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0064

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Origin and significance of Late Cretaceous bioevents: Examples from the Cenomanian

Markus Wilmsen

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 759-771 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0044

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Volgian and Santonian–Campanian radiolarian events of the Russian Arctic and Pacific Rim

Valentina S. Vishnevskaya and Genrietta E. Kozlova

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 773-790 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0040

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Siluro−Devonian of Podolia, Ukraine: Paleobiological, biostratigraphic, and geochemical aspects


Preface

Siluro−Devonian of Podolia, Ukraine: Paleobiological, biostratigraphic, and geochemical aspects

Hubert Szaniawski

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 793-794 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.1002

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Articles

Faunal dynamics across the Silurian–Devonian positive isotope excursions (δ13C, δ18O) in Podolia, Ukraine: Comparative analysis of the Ireviken and Klonk events

Grzegorz Racki, Andrzej Baliński, Ryszard Wrona, Krzysztof Małkowski, Daniel Drygant, and Hubert Szaniawski

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 795-832 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0206

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Lochkovian conodonts from Podolia, Ukraine, and their stratigraphic significance

Daniel Drygant and Hubert Szaniawski

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 833-861 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0124

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Palynology and microfacies of Lower Devonian mixed carbonate-siliciclastic deposits in Podolia, Ukraine

Paweł Filipiak, Michał Zatoń, Hubert Szaniawski, Ryszard Wrona, and Grzegorz Racki

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 863-877 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0184

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Acanthodian jaw bones from Lower Devonian marine deposits of Podolia, Ukraine

Victor Voichyshyn and Hubert Szaniawski

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 879-896 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0079

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The brachiopod succession through the Silurian–Devonian boundary beds at Dnistrove, Podolia, Ukraine

Andrzej Baliński

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 897-924 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0138

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In memoriam

Adrian Kin (1979–2012)

Elena A. Jagt−Yazykova and John W.M. Jagt

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 772-772 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.1003

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Contents

Contents of Volume 57

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), 2012: 941-944

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