Jean-Claude Paicheler's research while affiliated with Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement and other places

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A dinosaur tracksite was discovered in Batha on the side of the road from Harissa to Ghosta (Keserwan, Lebanon). About ten trackways are exposed at the top of two beds of Lower Cretaceous limestones over an area of approximately 1000 m². These footprints were probably made by at least two dinosaur species, Sauropoda and either Theropoda or Ornithop...
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Des pistes de Dinosaures ont été découvertes sur le bord de la route qui mène de Harissa à Ghosta (lieu-dit Batha, Keserwan, Liban). A la surface de 2 bancs de calcaire, on dénombre environ dix pistes différentes sur une surface couvrant 900 m². Ces empreintes ont été faites par deux ou trois espèces différentes. Un premier type d’empreinte apparti...
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The "Falaise de Blanche" is a prominent cliff, consisting mostly of Lower Cretaceous limestones that extends as linear outcrops over most of the Lebanese territory and provides geologists a remarkable reference for stratigraphic studies. However, until now, this unit was lacking a clear definition. We introduce herein the Jezzinian Regional Stage,...
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The Lebanese amber is still the oldest for Gondwanaland and its fauna is relatively well studied; as to date about 180 taxa have been described from this material. Nevertheless, the formation of the different Lebanese amberiferous outcrops is not yet clearly understood. We propose a new hypothesis and interpretation for the formation of amber depos...
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Résumé Une étude de lames minces a été effectuée dans des coprolithes du Tell néolithique d'Hârşova. Deux variétés de coprolithes, compacte et friable, peuvent être distinguées. Les deux types de coprolithes contiennent des débris d'os, témoins de leur origine carnivore ou omnivore. Des observations complémentaires des lames minces sous cathodolumi...
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A study was conducted on petrographic thin sections of coprolites from the Neolithic site of Hhr ova. Two varieties of coprolites, a compact and a friable one, could be distinguished. Both types contain bone particles, which is indicative of a carnivore or an omnivore's origin. Complementary light-optical- and cathodoluminescence-microscopy analyse...
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The Productions of the « Group of Champagne Pastes » : Archaeological, Petrographic and Chemical Characterizations The area limited by the valleys of the Marne and the Vesle rivers in the vicinity of the Montagne de Reims (Marne) delivered about twenty potters’ workshops dating from a period stretching from the end of the Ist century BC to the IVth...
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Prospections in Trépail, the « Trou de la Baticaude » (Marne), the Potters’ Workshop and the Gallo- Roman Site Presentation of the results of a prospection carried out in the forest areas devastated by the December 1999 storm in the Trépail area (near Reims). These uprootings have led to the discovery of building elements (dwellings and workshops)...
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Until now, only two Psychodoidea were known from Lebanese amber. We describe two new genera and species of Phlebotomidae (Mesophlebotomites hennigi gen. et sp. nov., Libanophlebotomus lutfallahi gen. et sp. nov.) and four new genera with six new species of Psychodidae (Paleopsychoda solignaci gen. et sp. nov., Paleopsychoda jacquelinae sp. nov., Pr...
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Schistosoma mansoni eggs were found in a latrine dated AD 1450-1550 in Montbéliard, France. This is the first record of intestinal schistosomiasis in archaeological material. Because the parasite has an African origin, its presence in Europe at that time may be due to African slaves. However, intestinal schistosomiasis has never been established in...
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Schistosoma mansoni eggs were found in a latrine dated AD 1450-1550 in Montbéliard, France. This is the first record of intestinal schistosomiasis in archaeological material. Because the parasite has an African origin, its presence in Europe at that time may be due to African slaves. However, intestinal schistosomiasis has never been established in...
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The early Carboniferous series of the Adarouch area (northeast central Morocco) are subdivided into three sedimentological and biostratigraphical units. The first unit, which belongs to the Late Visean zones V3bbeta and V3bgamma, was deposited on shallow carbonate platforms. The second unit belongs to the Late Visean zone, V3c, and includes terrige...
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The early Carboniferous series of the Adarouch area (northeast central Morocco) are subdivided into three sedimentological and biostratigraphical units. The first unit, which belongs to the Late Visean zones V3bβ and V3bγ, was deposited on shallow carbonate platforms. The second unit belongs to the Late Visean zone, V3c, and incudes terrigenous dep...
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The Early Carboniferous sediments of the North-East of the Moroccan western Meseta are very diversified. They contain numerous types of carbonates, deposited upon shallow shelves, as well as deeper gravity and hemipelagic deposits. The progressive Early Carboniferous transgression, starts from the Agouraï area at V2a and reaches Imouzzer of Kandar...
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The mediaeval site of Charavines (Isère, France) on lake of Paladru is a lacustrin settlement dated XIth century. The preservation of organic remains is excellent, and the palaeoparasitological analysis of deposits points out many well fossilized eggs of Helminths. Some of them are cited for the first time in an archaeological site : Passalurus sp....
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Modèle sédimentaire et évolution géodynamique du Nord-Est de la Méséta occidentale marocaine au cours du Carbonifère inférieur Abstract – Sedimentary model and geodynamic evolution of the North-East of the Moroccan western Meseta during Lower Carboniferous. The Early Carbonif-erous sediments of the North-East of the Moroccan western Meseta are very...
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Les terrains du Carbonifère inférieur de la région d'Agouraï s'organisent en trois formations qui passent de dépôts littoraux détritiques à des dépôts carbonatés de plate-forme interne peu profonde puis à des dépôts de décantation de milieu ouvert. Ils sont datés du Viséen moyen (V2a -V3a) au Viséen supérieur (V3ba, probablement V3bP). Le V2a-V3a e...
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The Lower Carboniferous outcrops of Agouraï area are composed by three formations. The environmental evolution is from detritic coastal deposits and carbonate shelf deposits to open shelf deposits. Ages are from Middle Visean (V2a-V3a) to Upper Visean (V3bα, probably V3bβ). The V2a-V3a is particularly well-characterized and can be examplified for a...
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A new fossil locality is reported from the argiles à lignite du Soisonnais (Early Ypresian, MP7) of the Oise region (France). After the preliminary survey of the flora and the vertebrate and arthropod faunas, we propose a reconstruction of a fluvio-lacustrine palaeoenvironment with a forest, under a warm and wet seasonal climate. This site is outst...
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The Jerada basin shows excellent Upper Visean outcrops, where the shale-limestone sedimentation was periodically perturbated by volcanic events. Measured sections on the northern and southern flanks display several lithologic units. Applying the sequence stratigraphic concepts defined by Vail et al. (1977), five depositional sequences can be distin...
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A new fossil locality is reported from the argiles à lignite du Soisonnais (Early Ypresian, MP7) of the Oise region (France). After the preliminary survey of the flora and the vertebrate and arthropod faunas, we propose a reconstruction of a fluvio-lacustrine palaeoenvironment with a forest, under a warm and wet seasonal climate. This site is outst...
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Numerous eggs of Ascaris cf. lumbricoides have been discovered in palaeolithic sediments of the pictorial sanctuary of the Grande Grotte at Arcy-sur-Cure. The presence of this parasite specifically human during the upper Pleistocene opens a new way of search about the knowledge of ancient populations.
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On the archeological site of Montbéliard, paleoparasitological and sedimentological analysis of cesspit deposits led to the detection of well preserved parasitological forms (remains of helminths with associated eggs). The morphology and morphometry of these forms point to a plausible case of bilharzia transmitted by Schistosoma haematobium. The ch...
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On the neolithic site of Chalain, the analysis of 12 human coprolites and of 10 sediment samples rich in organic matters has revealed the presence of many well preserved eggs of Helminths: eggs of Trichuris/Capillaria, Fasciola hepatica and Diphyllobothrium sp. The interest of palaeoparasitological analysis in Archaeology and the impact of taphonom...
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A critical survey of the fossil Lestoidea is presented. Almost 33% of described taxa are considered of uncertain systematic position. Phylogenetic relationships of fossil families and genera are discussed. Some new genera and species are described. Fossil Lestidae appear to be of little use in palaeoclimatic reconstructions and in palaeobiogeograph...
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Les Odonates "Anisozygoptera" constituent un groupe de libellules dont le statut et les liens phylogénétiques sont peu clairs. Pourtant, ces insectes sont tres variés dans le Mésozolque (pas moins de douze familles) et présentent une diversité de structures alaires jamais dépassée par la suite au sein des Odonates. Les "Anisozygoptera" Isophlebiida...
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Lower Carboniferous deposits from Eastern Morocco are located in small depressions within a more or less mountainous Jurassic area. Sections from Tafechna, Flouch and Oued Korima (Debdou and Mekam basins, Eastern Morocco) are accurately described. Owing to detailed field examination, misinterpreted lithological aspects are corrected, i.e. volcano-s...
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The tertiary lacustrine and marshy facies ofBes-Konak (Ankara-district) has provided a rich fauna of Vertebrates preserved as molds and casts in Diatomites and volcano-sedimentary beds.In this assemblage are: Cyprinid fishes (Leuciscus(P.) etiliusRückert Ulkümen) with among them a new species of Barbus, some Amphibians both Urodela (mature Triturin...

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... However, there were no examples of the eggs of parasites endemic in the tropics, such as Southeast Asian liver fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini) or the giant liver fluke (Fasciola gigantica) (Wang and Mitchell, 2022). Some examples of exotic parasites have previously been found in Europe from this time period, such as Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium in 15th-century France (Bouchet and Paicheler, 1995;Bouchet et al., 2002). As these species are endemic in Africa and the Middle East, this suggests either the people from those regions travelled to France and used their toilets, or traders from France travelled abroad and became infected. ...
... Certainly if the apparent differences are real, Handlirsch's suggestion of a new genus and species would seem to be justified, but until some attempt has been made to substantiate this by a re-examination of the type it seems to me best to relegate M. tillyardi to synonymy." Nel & Paicheler (1994). " Handlirsch (1939: 11) crée l'espèce Mesophlebia tillyardi pour le spécimen 127a. ...
... Fossils previously assigned to Amphipterygidae are now Steleopteridae , leaving Amphipterygidae without a fossil record. Nel and Paicheler (1992) state that Chlorocyphidae have no fossil record. ...
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... The hypothesis about haematophagy on homoiothermic vertebrates, including non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous, was presented, but so far with limited evidence. Teeth and tracks of a variety of dinosaurs have been recorded in Barremian deposits in Lebanon, indicating that they were part of the local palaeoenvironment (Buffetaut et al. 2006;Gèze et al. 2016). Younger Cenomanian (early Upper Cretaceous) deposits contain fossils of pterosaurs and early birds (Dalla Vecchia et al. 2001;Dalla Vecchia & Chiappe 2003;Cay & Arduini 2008;Elgin & Frey 2011;Kellner et al. 2019). ...
... We follow the higher classification of fossil and extant Odonatoptera based on the phylogenetic system of Bechly (1996Bechly ( , 2016, and the wing venation nomenclature of Riek & Kukalová-Peck (1984), as modified by Nel et al. (1993), Bechly (1996) and Jacquelin et al. (2018). ...
... there is a rich record of earliest ypresian fossil insects in the diatomaceous mo-clay of the Fur Formation and underlying siliciclastic Stolleklint clay of the Ølst Formation in the western limfjord region of northern Jutland, Denmark (e.g., henriksen 1922;rust 1999;Madsen & rasmussen 2021;Simonsen et al. 2022). this assemblage includes a diverse suite of Odonata fossils, which has received periodic attention over the last hundred years (e.g., above and Nel & Paicheler 1994, Madsen & Nel 1997, Zessin 2011). henriksen (1922 described the odonate Phenacolestes jutlandica henriksen based on a single, incomplete specimen and stated that "From a comparison with the literature, especially with the paper of Calvert [1913] it becomes evident that the wing impression must be due to a representative of the genus Phenacolestes Cock." (Henriksen 1922, p. 11). ...
... The oldest known belostomatid fossil is Triassonepa solensis Criscione and Grimaldi, 2017, followed by Odrowazicoris polonicus Popov, 1996, Tarsabedus menkei Popov, Dolling and Whalley, 1994, and Lethonectes naucoroides Popov, Dolling and Whalley, 1994. There are many other records from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic (Germar, 1839;Ríha and Kukalov a, 1967;Popov, 1971Popov, , 1989Chou and Hong, 1989;Zhang, 1989;Nel and Paicheler, 1992;Zhang and Zhang, 1994;Martínez-Delcl os et al., 1995;Popov et al., 2000;Polhemus, 2000;Zamboni, 2001;Nel and Waller, 2006;Vega et al., 2006). Amongst these records, the oldest known Lethocerinae is Sinobelostoma liui Chou and Hong, 1989 from the Lower Cretaceous HuachieHuanhe Formation of China (136e130 Ma). ...
... The order Odonata in the Paleogene has become increasingly complex in recent years. It is composed not only of rather modern dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera; e.g., Archibald and Cannings 2019) and damselflies (suborder Zygoptera; e.g., Nel and Paicheler 1992, and see review of Florissant insects by Meyer 2003) but also of a growing assortment of extinct groups, such as the suborder Cephalozygoptera (found across much of the Holarctic; , a species of the otherwise Mesozoic Isophlebioptera (latest Ypresian, Messel, Germany; Garrouste and Nel 2015), and odonates that some authors consider belong to an undefined suborder possibly basal to the Anisoptera and Anisozygoptera (Frenguelliidae: Ypresian and Lutetian of Argentina; Petrulevičius 2017, and references therein). ...
... Man ent deckte auf einigen Blättern sogar Eilogen von Zygopteren, so vom Azurjungfern (Coenagrioniden)-und Binsenjungfern (Lestiden)-Typ (Hellmund & Hellmund 1996a, b, 2002. Nel & Paicheler, 1993;Paleotramea Nel & Papazian, 1985;Pisaurum Gentilini, 1988und Trameobasileus Zeuner, 1938 (4) sie hat 21 anq im Vfl anstatt zehn. ...
... Selected specimens from the Alderton Hill palaeoentomofauna were initially described during the late 19th century [65][66][67] and early 20th century [68][69][70][71][72]. In recent literature, only specimens from certain insect orders have been featured in publications, including: Odonata [73,74], Blattodea [75], Diptera [76] and Necrotrichoptera [43,77]. Most recently, Simms [64], based almost entirely on historical records [78,79], provided a brief summary of the Alderton Hill succession, while Jarzembowski and Palmer [40] provided a list of the insect orders present based on the literature. ...