Fossil population structure of the cave bear from the Aurignacian high Alpine site Potočka zijalka (N Slovenia) has been studied. Age at death has been estimated by the analysis of molars and sex structure has been estimated after dimensions of canines. New objective methods of individual age determination in cave bear were introduced in this research. These methods gave the first relevant data on mortality trends in different life periods.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23487789
A total of 220 siliceous microfossils were described (204 diatoms, 14 silicoflagellates, 1 ebridian, 1 endoskeletal dinoflagellate). Based on correlation with FOD and LOD of index oceanic taxa and sequence stratigraphy, previous diatom biozonations for Central Paratethys are revised. Two Badenian transgressive and two regressive biozones, and one Sarmatian transgressive biozone could be distinguished. The book is a fundamental publication on siliceous algae for the Paratethys realm.
COBISS.SI-ID: 213903872
We studied volcano-sedimentary successions of subsided continental-margin blocks (Mts. Žumberak and Ivanščica) and of dismembered incomplete sequences interpreted as remnants of a backarc basin (Mts. Medvednica and Kalnik). These successions are relics of the Meliata-Maliak backarc basin. In the study area the sea-floor spreading lasted from the Anisian-Ladinian boundary to the late Carnian that was the longest continuous sea-floor spreading so far documented in Triassic oceanic remnants of the Alpine-Dinaric belt.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23552301
This volume comprises a catalogue of 90 genera, 274 species and 13 subspecies of Pliensbachian, Toarcian and Aalenian Radiolaria. Two genera, 37 species and 3 subspecies are new formal descriptions, 24 species are described in open nomenclature. The material was collected from 30 measured sections in the Circum-Pacific belt (Baja California Peninsula, Oregon, British Columbia, Japan) and the Tethyan realm (Oman, Turkey, Slovenia, Austria). The publication is the first complete presentation of radiolarian fauna of this time interval.
COBISS.SI-ID: 229850112
The research into the fossil population structure of the cave bear from the Mokrica cave provided new data concerning the behaviour and mortality of this extinct species. Age at death was estimated for 128 different individuals. The oldest age recorded by cementum analysis is approximately 30 years, which indicates that the maximum life span was similar to present-day bears. The sex structure of adult bears, especially in the sample of older individuals, indicates that the Mokrica cave was used as winter den mostly by solitary males.
COBISS.SI-ID: 27555629