{"id":638,"date":"2015-05-10T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T08:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/?page_id=638"},"modified":"2016-10-15T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T14:41:47","slug":"labo-irsnb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/?page_id=638","title":{"rendered":"<\/span> Labo RBINS"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/p>\n
Study of the Paleogene vertebrate faunas at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

The vertebrates that are studied by the researchers of the RBINS include mammals, snakes, lizards, birds, turtles, crocodylomorphs and fishes from the Paleogene of Western Europe, Africa and Asia. The vertebrate fossils are taken in charge from the fieldworks to the fossil collections. Back in Brussels, the fossils are sorted and prepared in order to display as much characters as possible and be preserved as best. The study of fossils allows determining their status. The fossils are conserved in the large fossil collection of the RBINS and available for worldwide researchers. The profound modifications of the vertebrate fauna along time are used as markers for biostratigraphical studies. Moreover, the faunal turnovers they illustrate can reflect climate changes such as global warming\/cooling and thus help analysing the impact of climate on ancient ecosystems. The geographic distributions of these animals also allow reconstructing the geography of past times\u2014for instance, the travel of the Indian Plate during the Paleogene.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div><\/div>

\"0101 Screen-washing by Flor\u00e9al Sol\u00e9 (left) and Eric De Bast (right) during the 2012 fieldwork in the upper Paleocene of Rivecourt, France<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0202 Sorting of vertebrate specimens from screen-washed residue coming from early Eocene deposits of Wyoming (left, mammal upper molar; right, Lepisosteus scale; bottom, fish vertebra)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0303 Preparation of fossil mammal remains from the Paleocene of Asia<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0404 Pictures of the left foot – after preparation – of Qianshanornis rapax from the middle Paleocene of Anhui, China<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0505 Curator Annelise Folie managing the fossil mammal collections from the early Eocene of Erquelinnes, Belgium<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0606 Preparator Fabrice Vanderlinden molding and casting postcranial elements of European mesonychid mammals<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0707 Study of fossils from India by researchers Flor\u00e9al Sol\u00e9 (left), Eric De Bast (right), and collaborator Haiyan Tong (back)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0808 Thierry Smith (front) and technician Julien Cillis (back) taking SEM pictures and measurements of a small Paleocene mammal jaw with a Scanning Electron Microscope<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0909 SEM pictures of a small jaw of the bat Protonycteris gunnelli from the early Eocene of Vastan, India<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>
<\/span><\/span><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":603,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/contact.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638\/revisions\/1295"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}