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Field Trip to Almeria

This year the students of the third course of Marine sciences of the Alicante University visit the Sorbas basin, Cabo de Gata, and Mesa de Roldán on November 4th and 5th of 2021. The picture show the student visiting the Torregarcia beach and the Roman remains of a cetaria (a marine factory). The professors in […]

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Neogene Brachiopods and Betic Corridors

Diego García-Ramos University of Vienna, Institut for Paläontologie 1.Introduction Brachiopods, a name that derives from Ancient Greek words βραχίων (“arm”) and πούς (“foot”), make up a phylum of tripoblastic, coelomate, marine invertebrates that belong, along with bryozoans and phoronideans, to the superphylum of the so-called lophophorates. Their body plan consists of two valves displaying bilateral […]

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