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Microcleidus melusinae, a new plesiosaurian (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Toarcian of Luxembourg
- PEGGY VINCENT, ROBERT WEIS, GUY KRONZ, DOMINIQUE DELSATE
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- Geological Magazine / Volume 156 / Issue 1 / January 2019
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- 18 October 2017, pp. 99-116
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Most of the known and most-complete Early Jurassic specimens of plesiosaurians were recovered from the United Kingdom and Germany, and few specimens from that age originate from other areas in Europe. This study describes a new plesiosaurian taxon from Toarcian deposits of Luxembourg, Microcleidus melusinae, represented by the most complete skeleton ever discovered from this country. A preliminary phylogenetic analysis places Microcleidus melusinae within Microcleididae, as a sister taxon of the species previously included in the genus Microcleidus. The new specimen studied here contributes to our understanding of the palaeodiversity of Early Jurassic plesiosaurians and confirms their high degree of ‘endemism’ and low morphological disparity.
Re-description of a basal Plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Lower Jurassic of England
- Peggy Vincent
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- Journal of Paleontology / Volume 86 / Issue 1 / January 2012
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- 20 May 2016, pp. 167-176
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The specimen NHMUK 39514 comprises the cranial remains of a plesiosaur found on the Dorset coast during the middle of the ninetieth century. It was partially described and figured by Owen and variously attributed to Plesiosaurus rostratus (Owen) and to Plesiosaurus conybeari (Sollas). NHMUK 39514 is a partial braincase and mandible. It differs from all other Early Jurassic plesiosaurs known including the two species to which it was originally referred. The mandible presents several pliosauromorph characters but the specimen is identified as Plesiosauria indet. because it has several plesiomorphic characters in its braincase anatomy. This assignment will prevent the introduction of a possible chimera in future phylogenetical analyses and paleobiogeographic reconstructions.
Effects of the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event on ichthyosaur body size and faunal composition in the Southwest German Basin
- Erin E. Maxwell, Peggy Vincent
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- Paleobiology / Volume 42 / Issue 1 / February 2016
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- 06 November 2015, pp. 117-126
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The Early Jurassic Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event is considered one of the most dramatic environmental perturbations of the Mesozoic. An elevated extinction rate among marine invertebrates accompanied rapid environmental changes, but effects on large vertebrates are less understood. We examined changes in ichthyosaur body size in the Posidonia Shale of the Southwest German Basin spanning the extinction interval to assess how environmental changes and biotic crisis among prey species affected large reptiles. We report no species-level extinction among the ichthyosaurs coinciding with peak invertebrate extinction. Large ichthyosaurs were absent from the fauna during the extinction interval, but became more abundant in the immediate aftermath. Stenopterygius quadriscissus, the most abundant species during the extinction interval, increased in body size after the biotic event. Rapid invasion by large taxa occurred immediately following the extinction event at the end of the first ammonite zone of the early Toarcian. Greater mobility permitting exploitation of ephemeral resources and opportunistic feeding behavior may minimize the impacts of environmental change on large vertebrates.
Osteological redescription of the skull of Microcleidus homalospondylus (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Lower Jurassic of England
- David Brown, Peggy Vincent, Nathalie Bardet
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- Journal of Paleontology / Volume 87 / Issue 4 / July 2013
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- 14 July 2015, pp. 537-549
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The plesiosaur specimen NHMUK 36184 from the Lower Jurassic of Whitby, Yorkshire and kept in the Natural History Museum of London, comprises an almost entire skeleton with nearly complete skull. It was described as one of two syntypes of Plesiosaurus homalospondylus by Owen, and selected as the lectotype by Lydekker. Extensive preparation of the skull has revealed it as one of the most complete and best-preserved Jurassic plesiosaurian skulls known, and its description adds much-needed data to our knowledge of the cranial osteology of the Plesiosauria. The three-dimensional preservation permits a relatively reliable reconstruction of its form. Microcleidus homalospondylus displays an interesting combination of cranial characters present in Jurassic plesiosauroids and Cretaceous Elasmosauridea. Its snout presents a very distinctive sculpture; the first pair of premaxillae teeth are extremely reduced; the frontal is partially overlain by the premaxillae, contacts the pineal foramen but does not contact the temporal fenestra; the jugal does not contact the orbit nor the temporal fenestra; the squamosal contacts the postorbital but not the maxilla and presents a bulb; the postfrontal contacts the posterolateral orbit margin; the anterior interpterygoid vacuity is absent; the pterygoids meet posterior to the posterior interpterygoid vacuities and are pierced by a foramen at this level; the quadrate ramus of the pterygoid presents a ventromedial flange; the parasphenoid is crested; the epipterygoid contacts the parietal; the paroccipital process is spatulate distally; the prootic presents an anteroventral process; the mandibular symphysis is keeled and bears four pairs of teeth. Microcleidus appears very similar to Hydrorion and Occitanosaurus, and the three taxa share a great number of plesiomorphic characters with basal plesiosaurians and pliosauroids.
Mary Anning's legacy to French vertebrate palaeontology
- PEGGY VINCENT, PHILIPPE TAQUET, VALENTIN FISCHER, NATHALIE BARDET, JOCELYN FALCONNET, PASCAL GODEFROIT
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- Geological Magazine / Volume 151 / Issue 1 / January 2014
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- 29 October 2013, pp. 7-20
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The real nature of marine reptile fossils found in England between the 1700s and the beginning of the 1900s remained enigmatic until Mary Anning's incredible fossil discoveries and their subsequent study by eminent English and French scientists. In 1820, Georges Cuvier acquired several ichthyosaur specimens found by Mary Anning, now kept or displayed in the Palaeontology Gallery of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris. Four years later, Cuvier obtained a plesiosaur specimen from Mary Anning, only the second ever discovered. Cuvier was fascinated by these fossils and their study allowed him to apply his comparative anatomical method and to support his catastrophist theory. We have re-examined these important specimens from a historical point of view, and describe them here taxonomically for the first time since Cuvier's works. The Paris specimens belong to two different ichthyosaur genera (Ichthyosaurus and Leptonectes) and one plesiosaur genus (Plesiosaurus).
Marine vertebrate remains from the Toarcian–Aalenian succession of southern Beaujolais, Rhône, France
- PEGGY VINCENT, JEREMY E. MARTIN, VALENTIN FISCHER, GUILLAUME SUAN, BOUZIANE KHALLOUFI, BAPTISTE SUCHÉRAS-MARX, ALEX LÉNA, KÉVIN JANNEAU, BRUNO ROUSSELLE, LOUIS RULLEAU
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- Geological Magazine / Volume 150 / Issue 5 / September 2013
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- 06 March 2013, pp. 822-834
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A previously undocumented marine vertebrate fauna comprising ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, marine crocodilian and fish remains from the Toarcian–Aalenian succession at Lafarge quarry, southern Beaujolais (Rhône, France) is described on the basis of both historical collections and new discoveries. The taxonomic composition of the Lafarge quarry marine vertebrate assemblage highlights its cosmopolitan nature and strong relationships with taxa known from elsewhere in Europe. Several groups are recorded for the first time in the Toarcian–Aalenian succession of France, implying new palaeobiogeographic interpretations and prompting discussion of marine amniote diversity during this interval.
Palaeoenvironmental significance of Toarcian black shales and event deposits from southern Beaujolais, France
- GUILLAUME SUAN, LOUIS RULLEAU, EMANUELA MATTIOLI, BAPTISTE SUCHÉRAS-MARX, BRUNO ROUSSELLE, BERNARD PITTET, PEGGY VINCENT, JEREMY E. MARTIN, ALEX LÉNA, JORGE. E. SPANGENBERG, KARL B. FÖLLMI
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- Geological Magazine / Volume 150 / Issue 4 / July 2013
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- 07 February 2013, pp. 728-742
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New sedimentological, biostratigraphical and geochemical data recording the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE) are reported from a marginal marine succession in southern Beaujolais, France. The serpentinum and bifrons ammonite zones record black shales with high (1–10 wt%) total organic carbon contents (TOC) and dysoxia-tolerant benthic fauna typical of the ‘Schistes Carton’ facies well documented in contemporaneous nearby basins. The base of the serpentinum ammonite zone, however, differs from coeval strata of most adjacent basinal series in that it presents several massive storm beds particularly enriched in juvenile ammonites and the dysoxia-tolerant, miniaturized gastropod Coelodiscus. This storm-dominated interval records a marked negative 5‰ carbonate and organic carbon isotope excursion being time-equivalent with that recording storm- and mass flow-deposits in sections of the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal, pointing to the existence of a major tempestite/turbidite event over tropical areas during the T-OAE. Although several explanations remain possible at present, we favour climatically induced changes in platform morphology and storm activity as the main drivers of these sedimentological features. In addition, we show that recent weathering, most probably due to infiltration of O2-rich meteoric water, resulted in the preferential removal of 12C-enriched organic carbon, dramatic TOC loss and total destruction of the lamination of the black shale sequence over most of the studied exposure. These latter observations imply that extreme caution should be applied when interpreting the palaeoenvironmental significance of sediments lacking TOC enrichment and lamination from outcrops with limited surface exposures.
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10 - Migrants' rights after apartheid: South African responses to the ICRMW
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Summary
Introduction
South Africa has a long history of abusing migrants' rights. The migrant labour system to the South African mines, for example, was once described as the ‘most enduring and far-flung oscillating migrant labour system in history [which] laid the foundations of a particularly ruthless system of racial discrimination’ (Crush et al., 1991, p. 3). During the apartheid era, South Africa also failed to accede to any of the major international human rights conventions. In 1994, with the advent of democracy and a new Constitution and Bill of Rights, a rights-based foundation was laid for the protection of all in the country. Over the last decade, South African workers have come to enjoy unprecedented protection through a range of new labour laws (Donnelly and Dunn, 2006). The new South African Government also ratified a significant number of international human rights conventions. However, the ICRMW remains unsigned and unratified. To date, the government has expressed no opinion on the ICRMW, much less voiced opposition to or concerns about its contents. The question addressed in this chapter, then, is whether the failure to ratify is because the government has problems with the Convention itself, like so many other migrant-destination countries (see Taran, 2001; Iredale and Piper, 2003; Piper, 2004; Pécoud and de Guchteneire, 2006).
We argue that the South African failure to ratify is not, in fact, rooted in any principled objection to the ICRMW. To understand the reasons for the response to the Convention in the first ten years after apartheid, it is necessary to appreciate the more general context of attitudes to migrants in post-apartheid South Africa.
Psychopathological factors, memory disorders and transient global amnesia
- Audrey Noël, Peggy Quinette, Bérengère Gulllery-Girard, Jacques Dayan, Pascale Piolino, Sophie Marquis, Vincent de la Sayette, Fausto Viader, Béatrice Desgranges, Francis Eustache
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 193 / Issue 2 / August 2008
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 145-151
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- August 2008
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Background
Some studies have shown the presence of psychopathological disorders in transient global amnesia.
AimsTo determine whether transient global amnesia is associated with psychopathological disorders and to assess the influence of these psychopathological disorders on memory impairments.
MethodLevels of anxiety and depression before and during transient global amnesia were rated. Memory performances were assessed by means of original episodic memory tasks and working memory tasks. These data were collected in 17 individuals observed during the very acute phase, 18 individuals examined in the peri-acute phase and 26 controls.
ResultsDuring the acute phase, participants with transient global amnesia displayed a higher level of anxiety and a more depressed mood than controls. An alteration of emotional state, as measured by the Adjective Mood Scale, was correlated with deficits in anterograde memory.
ConclusionsTransient global amnesia comprises sudden changes in people's emotional state, which has a major impact on and interacts with episodic memory impairment.
Correspondence
- AUDREY NOËL, PEGGY QUINETTE, BÉRENGÈRE GUILLERY-GIRARD, JACQUES DAYAN, STÉPHANIE KATIS, PASCALE PIOLINO, PASCALE ABADIE, VINCENT DE LA SAYETTE, SOPHIE MARQUIS, FAUSTO VIADER, BÉATRICE DESGRANGES, FRANCIS EUSTACHE
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- Psychological Medicine / Volume 37 / Issue 11 / November 2007
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- 20 July 2007, pp. 1673-1676
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Hospital Epidemiologic Surveillance for Invasive Aspergillosis: Patient Demographics and the Utility of Antigen Detection
- Jan Evans Patterson, Ahmed Zidouh, Peggy Miniter, Vincent T. Andriole, Thomas F. Patterson
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- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 18 / Issue 2 / February 1997
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- 02 January 2015, pp. 104-108
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Objective:
To monitor the epidemiology of invasive aspergillosis at a university hospital during a period of hospital construction. To compare the efficacy of active epidemiologic surveillance for invasive aspergillosis using Aspergillus cultures with the efficacy of surveillance using Aspergillus antigen detection.
Design:A prospective surveillance study.
Setting:An 850-bed, tertiary-care, university-based hospital.
Patients:A convenience sample of 153 patients with Aspergillus antigen testing and culture.
Results:24 cases were identified over a 12-month period; 7 were nosocomial, and 17 were community-acquired. Cases occurred primarily in patients with hematologic malignancy, but also occurred in patients with solid tumor, steroid treatment, cardiac transplant, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Culture techniques identified only 14 (58%) of 24 cases, whereas Aspergillus antigen was positive in 19 (79%) of 24 cases tested. Epidemiological surveillance using either antigen or culture positivity detected 22 (92%) of 24 cases. In addition, antigen detection was 98% specific for the detection of aspergillosis, as compared to 91% for culture and 88% for antigen and culture combined.
Conclusions:Hospital surveillance for aspergillosis should include determination of whether cases are nosocomial or community-acquired, because many may be the latter. Patients at risk for aspergillosis include patients without hematologic malignancies. Enhanced case detection occurred with active surveillance of patients considered to be at risk using both fungal serology and traditional microbiological techniques. Antigen detection was more sensitive and specific for the detection of invasive aspergillosis and may improve epidemiological surveillance for aspergillosis.