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    A refugium for charophytes during the maximum post-Palaeozoic sea-level highstand in the Turonian of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain) 

    Martín-Closas, Carles; Vicedo, Vicent; Bover-Arnal, Telm (2025-06-04)

    During the Cenomanian–Turonian interval, Europe was largely submerged under a shallow tropical sea within the Cretaceous Tethyan Archipelago. Non-marine lacustrine habitats were limited to a few coastal lakes on the islands. ...

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    Absurdaster, a new genus of basal atelostomate from the Early Cretaceous of Europe and its phylogenetic position 

    Kroh, Andreas; Lukeneder, Alexander; Gallemí, Jaume (2014-02-20)

    Field work in the Lower Cretaceous of the Dolomites (Italy) has resulted in the recovery of a new genus of ‘disasteroid’ echinoid, which successively was also discovered in slightly older strata in Northern Hungary. This ...

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    Biostratigraphy and evolution of larger rotaliid foraminifera in the Cretaceous–Palaeogene transition of the southern Oman Mountains 

    Vicedo, Vicent; Robles-Salcedo, Raquel; Serra-Kiel, Josep; Hidalgo, Cristian; Razin, Philippe; Grélaud, Carine (2019-08-22)

    A site in the western flank of Jabal Ja’alan (Oman Mountains) reveals an exceptional succession across the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary. The sampled interval comprises a series of carbonates deposited in shallow-water platform ...

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    Canalispina iapygia gen. et sp. nov.: the last Siderolitidae (Foraminiferida) from the upper Maastrichtian of southern Italy 

    Robles-Salcedo, Raquel; Vicedo, Vicent; Caus, Esmeralda (2019-01-12)

    Siderolitid larger benthic foraminifera are widespread and abundant microfossils in high-energy shallow-water Tethyan carbonate platform facies of Campanian – Maastrichtian age. The more evolved representatives of this ...

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    Catálogo de los bivalvos rudistas del Santoniense inferior de la Formación La Cadièred’Azur (cuenca de Le Beausset, Sudeste de Francia) del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona 

    Troya, Luis; Lucena, Gerard; Robles-Salcedo, Raquel; Zamora, Ángeles; Vicedo, Vicent (2019-8-)

    El inventario y revisión de los 162 registros de bivalvos rudistas del Santoniense inferior de la Formación La Cadièred’Azur de la cuenca de Le Beausset, SE Francia, conservados en las colecciones de Paleontología del MCNB ...

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    Comment on: “Evolutionary trend of Cenomanian alveolinids from Zagros Basin, SW of Iran” by Dousti Mohajer et al. 2021 in Geological Journal 

    Consorti, Lorenzo; Vicedo, Vicent (2022-05-26)

    The results achieved in “Evolutionary trend of Cenomanian alveolinids from Zagros Basin, SW of Iran” by Dousti Mohajer et al. (2021), Geological Journal, are here critically discussed. According to the data published in ...

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    El límite Coniaciense/Santoniense en el valle del Riu de Carreu y en Prats de Carreu, Pirineos centro-meridionales 

    Gallemí, Jaume; López, Gregori; Martínez, Ricard; Pons, José María (2004)

    Nine sections have been measured and sampled in the Coniacian and Santonian strata, well exposed along a 15 km E-W oriented continuous outcrop, at the Riu de Carreu valley and Prats de Carreu in South-central Pyrenees. ...

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    Enhancing the educational value of palaeontological heritage: the Didactic Collection of the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and its strategic framework 

    Vicedo, Vicent; Ozkaya de Juanas, Senay; Fernández-Lluch, David; Batlles, Albert; Ballester, Montserrat (2021-02-19)

    The biased perception society has towards palaeontology, shown through practical activity experience, has led a multidisciplinary team of educators and scientists to meticulously design a didactic programme to increase, ...

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    Evidence of a Cenomanian shallow-marine carbonate platform in the northwestern margin of the Bortziriak-Cinco Villas massif, eastern Basque-Cantabrian Basin 

    Ladron de Guevara, Martin; Troya, Luis; Aranburu, Arantza (2023)

    Basin margin evolution of rift basins is not always well constrained. In the northeastern margin of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin, a revision of a carbonate succession permits deciphering the transition from synto post-rift ...

    Evolutionary trends and biostratigraphical application of new Cenomanian alveolinoids (Foraminifera) from the Natih Formation of Oman 

    Vicedo, Vicent; Piuz, A. (2016-11-17)

    An exhaustive sampling of the Cenomanian deposits corresponding to the Natih Formation in the Oman Mountains has been carried out in several field trips. The larger foraminifera representatives of the superfamily Alveolinoidea ...

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    El fons paleontològic del Museu de Guissona: Col·lecció Agustí Brescó 

    Tosal, Aixa; Robles-Salcedo, Raquel (2019)

    La colección de fósiles, de cuarenta y cuatro ejemplares, de padre Agustí Brescó fue depositada al Museo de Guissona en 1953. Sin embargo, durante más de medio siglo desde su depósito al Museo, nunca ha sido estudiada. Con ...

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    Gusicella Schlagintweit & Rashidi, 2021 (type species Dictyoconella minima Henson, 1948), Upper Cretaceous Larger Benthic Foraminifer and its species 

    Schlagintweit, Felix; Vicedo, Vicent; Rashidi, Koorosh; Frijia, Gianluca; Consorti, Lorenzo (2025-11)

    Based on new material from the middle to upper Cenomanian Natih Formation (members A and B) from Oman, the little-known species Gusicella minima (Henson), originally described from the Mishrif Formation of Qatar (Dukhan ...

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    La colección de macroforaminíferos Josep Serra Kiel: realzando la dimensión científica del patrimonio paleontológico mueble 

    Robles-Salcedo, Raquel; Gallardo, Alejandro; Vicedo, Vicent (2019)

    Departamento de Paleontología del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona (MCNB) recibió el pasado 2018 parte de la colección personal micropaleontológica del Dr. Josep Serra Kiel, eminente investigador y profesor de la ...

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    La colección paleontológica J.F. de Villalta del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona 

    Vicedo, Vicent; Troya, Luis; Gallemí, Jaume (2015)

    La colección Villalta del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona es -por su interés cultural y científico- una relevante colección de paleontología, de gran valor como patrimonio geológico mueble, que reúne fósiles en ...

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    La col·lecció paleontològica Gómez-Alba del MGB-MCNB 

    Vicedo, Vicent; López Sanjaume, Gregorio; Troya, Luis; Gallemí, Jaume (2013)

    Es presenta el catàleg de la col·lecció paleontològica que havia pertangut al recentment traspassat Dr. Julio Gómez- Alba, antic conservador de Paleontologia del Museu de Geologia de Barcelona, actualment integrat en el ...

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    Las colecciones paleobotánicas del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona: paradigma de la utilidad del patrimonio geológico en el avance del conocimiento científico y museológico 

    Vicedo, Vicent; Gallemí, Jaume (2015)

    El Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Barcelona custodia unas colecciones de paleobotánica que pueden considerarse, desde varios puntos de vista, de referencia internacional. Son tres las colecciones que principalmente se ...

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    Late Cretaceous larger rotaliid Foraminifera from the westernmost Tethys 

    Vicedo, Vicent; Robles-Salcedo, Raquel (2022-05)

    A detailed taxonomical study of the larger rotaliid foraminifera found in the Upper Cretaceous deposits from the External Prebetic Zones (SE Spain) has been carried out for the first time. The study of the samples has ...

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    Late Cretaceous-early terciary echinoids from northern Spain: implications for the Cretaceous- Tertiary extinction event 

    Smith, A. B.; Gallemí, Jaume; Jeffery, C. H.; Ernst, G.; Ward, P. D. (1999)