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  1. A dual respiratory and auditory function for the coelacanth lung

    Article • Communications Biology, February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin, Dr. Bernd Fritzsch

  2. Editorial – Swiss Journal of Palaeontology migrates to Pensoft Publishers

    Article • Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, January 2026, Pensoft Publishers

    Lionel Cavin

  3. Editorial – Swiss Journal of Palaeontology migrates to Pensoft Publishers

    Article • December 2025, Pensoft Publishers

    Lionel Cavin

  4. On the Incompleteness of the Coelacanth Fossil Record

    Article • Fossil Studies, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Lionel Cavin

  5. A deep dive into the coelacanth phylogeny

    Article • PLOS One, June 2025, PLOS

    Lionel Cavin

  6. The first and oldest record of Issidae from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha)

    Article • Zootaxa, December 2024, Magnolia Press

    Lionel Cavin

  7. The most detailed anatomical reconstruction of a Mesozoic coelacanth

    Article • PLOS One, November 2024, PLOS

    Lionel Cavin

  8. Large durophagous fish from the Spathian (late Early Triassic) of Romania hints at earlier onset of the Triassic actinopterygian revolution

    Article • Papers in Palaeontology, March 2024, Wiley

    Lionel Cavin

  9. The First Dinosaur from the Kingdom of Cambodia: A Sauropod Fibula from the Lower Cretaceous of Koh Kong Province, South-Western Cambodia

    Article • Fossil Studies, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Lionel Cavin

  10. A 3D reconstruction of the skull of the West Indian Ocean coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae  

    Article • MorphoMuseuM, September 2023, Association Palaeovertebrata

    Lionel Cavin

  11. A New Enigmatic Teleost Fish from the Mid-Cretaceous of Lebanon

    Article • Diversity, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Lionel Cavin

  12. A New Sinamiin Fish (Actinopterygii) from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand: Implications on the Evolutionary History of the Amiid Lineage

    Article • Diversity, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Lionel Cavin

  13. The First Fossil Coelacanth from Thailand

    Article • Diversity, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Lionel Cavin

  14. The first Jurassic coelacanth from Switzerland

    Article • Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  15. A fossil assemblage from the mid–late Maastrichtian of Gavdos Island, Greece, provides insights into the pre-extinction pelagic ichthyofaunas of the Tethys

    Article • PLOS One, April 2022, PLOS

    Lionel Cavin

  16. The first late cretaceous mawsoniid coelacanth (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) from North America: Evidence of a lineage of extinct ‘living fossils’

    Article • PLOS One, November 2021, PLOS

    Lionel Cavin

  17. A New Lungfish from the Jurassic of Thailand

    Article • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Lionel Cavin

  18. The last known freshwater coelacanths: New Late Cretaceous mawsoniid remains (Osteichthyes: Actinistia) from Southern France

    Article • PLOS One, June 2020, PLOS

    Lionel Cavin

  19. A review of Australia’s Mesozoic fishes

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Lionel Cavin

  20. Resolving homology in the face of shifting germ layer origins: Lessons from a major skull vault boundary

    Article • eLife, December 2019, eLife

    Lionel Cavin

  21. Scheenstia bernissartensis (Actinopterygii: Ginglymodi) from the Early Cretaceous of Bernissart, Belgium, with an appraisal of ginglymodian evolutionary history

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Lionel Cavin

  22. Revision of Dugaldia emmilta (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) from the Toolebuc Formation, Albian of Australia, with comments on the jaw mechanics

    Article • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Lionel Cavin

  23. Fish assemblage and palaeoenvironment of Early Cretaceous (Barremian) neap-spring tidal rhythmites from Sidi Aïch Formation of the Chotts basin (Southern Tunisia)

    Article • Cretaceous Research, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Kamel Boukhalfa, Lionel Cavin

  24. Fishing in the Central Atlantic, an earliest Cenomanian ichthyodectiform from DSDP Site 367, Cape Verde Basin

    Article • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jonathan Redfern, Lionel Cavin

  25. Body size evolution and habitat colonization across 100 million years (Late Jurassic–Paleocene) of the actinopterygian evolutionary history

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, March 2018, Wiley

    Lionel Cavin

  26. A new Lepisosteiformes (Actinopterygii: Ginglymodi) from the Early Cretaceous of Laos and Thailand, SE Asia

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Lionel Cavin

  27. Heterochronic evolution explains novel body shape in a Triassic coelacanth from Switzerland

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  28. A mawsoniid coelacanth (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) from the Rhaetian (Upper Triassic) of the Peygros quarry, Le Thoronet (Var, southeastern France)

    Article • Geological Magazine, August 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Lionel Cavin

  29. A unique Cretaceous–Paleogene lineage of piranha-jawed pycnodont fishes

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  30. Introduction

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  31. Freshwater Environments and Fishes

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  32. Evolutionary Histories of Freshwater Fishes

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  33. Evolutionary Patterns in Freshwater Fishes

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  34. A new mawsoniid coelacanth (Actinistia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern France

    Article • Cretaceous Research, July 2016, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  35. Évolution lithostratigraphique, paléoenvironnementale et séquentielle du Cénomanien-Turonien inférieur dans la région du Guir (Ouest algérien)

    Article • Carnets Geol, April 2016, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Lionel Cavin

  36. Convergent evolution of jaws between spinosaurid dinosaurs and pike conger eels

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, January 2016, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Lionel Cavin

  37. Contrasting “Fish” Diversity Dynamics between Marine and Freshwater Environments

    Article • Current Biology, August 2015, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  38. Early Cretaceous vertebrates from the Xinlong Formation of Guangxi (southern China): a review

    Article • Geological Magazine, July 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Lionel Cavin

  39. A Berriasian actinopterygian fauna from Cherves-de-Cognac, France: Biodiversity and palaeoenvironmental implications

    Article • Cretaceous Research, July 2015, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  40. Overabundance of piscivorous dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) in the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa: The Algerian dilemma

    Article • Cretaceous Research, July 2015, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  41. ‘Fish’ (Actinopterygii andElasmobranchii) diversification patterns through deep time

    Article • Biological Reviews, June 2015, Wiley

    Lionel Cavin

  42. Taxonomic Composition and Trophic Structure of the Continental Bony Fish Assemblage from the Early Late Cretaceous of Southeastern Morocco

    Article • PLOS One, May 2015, PLOS

    Lionel Cavin

  43. Cenomanian transgression in the Basque-Cantabrian Basin (northern Spain) and associated faunal replacement

    Article • Journal of Iberian Geology, December 2014, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Lionel Cavin

  44. Coelacanths as “almost living fossils”

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, August 2014, Frontiers

    Lionel Cavin

  45. Dobrogeria aegyssensis, a new early Spathian (Early Triassic) coelacanth from North Dobrogea (Romania)

    Article • Acta Geologica Polonica, June 2014, Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery

    Lionel Cavin

  46. A new assemblage of ray-finned fishes (Teleostei) from the Lower Oligocene “Schistes à Meletta” from the Glières plateau, Bornes Massif, eastern France

    Article • Swiss Journal of Geosciences, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  47. A tribute to the late Professor Jean-Pierre Berger (8 July 1956–18 January 2012)

    Article • Swiss Journal of Geosciences, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  48. New coelacanth material from the Middle Triassic of eastern Switzerland, and comments on the taxic diversity of actinistans

    Article • Swiss Journal of Geosciences, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  49. Cretaceous stem chondrichthyans survived the end-Permian mass extinction

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  50. Unbalanced food web in a Late Cretaceous dinosaur assemblage

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, July 2013, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  51. Osteology and relationships ofThaiichthysnov. gen.: a Ginglymodi from the Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous of Thailand

    Article • Palaeontology, January 2013, Wiley

    Lionel Cavin

  52. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) ray-finned fishes from the island of Gavdos, southern Greece, with comments on the evolutionary history of the aulopiform teleost Enchodus

    Article • BSGF – Earth Sciences Bulletin, December 2012, EDP Sciences

    Lionel Cavin

  53. A large halecomorph fish (Actinopterygii: Holostei) from the Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) of southeast France

    Article • Cretaceous Research, October 2012, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  54. Osteology ofEubiodectes libanicus(Pictet & Humbert, ) and some other ichthyodectiformes (Teleostei): phylogenetic implications

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Lionel Cavin

  55. New vertebrate trackways from the autochthonous cover of the Aiguilles Rouges Massif and reevaluation of the dinosaur record in the Valais, SW Switzerland

    Article • Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  56. A new species of the ginglymodian fish Isanichthys (Actinopterygii, Holostei) from the Late Jurassic Phu Kradung Formation, northeastern Thailand

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, January 2012, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Lionel Cavin

  57. The impact of fossils on the Evolutionary Distinctiveness and conservation status of the Australian lungfish

    Article • Biological Conservation, December 2011, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  58. Oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of middle Cretaceous vertebrates from North Africa and Brazil: Ecological and environmental significance

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, November 2010, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  59. Diversity of Mesozoic semionotiform fishes and the origin of gars (Lepisosteidae)

    Article • The Science of Nature, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  60. Vertebrate assemblages from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern Morocco: An overview

    Article • Journal of African Earth Sciences, July 2010, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  61. An Early Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage from the Cabao Formation of NW Libya

    Article • Geological Magazine, March 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Lionel Cavin

  62. On Giant Filter Feeders

    Article • Science, February 2010, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Lionel Cavin

  63. Gonorynchiformes in the Teleostean Phylogeny: Molecules and Morphology Used to Investigate Interrelationships of the Ostariophysi

    Article • January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Lionel Cavin

  64. An ammonite–fish association from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of La Rochelle, western France

    Article • Lethaia, December 2009, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Lionel Cavin

  65. A new Isochirotherium trackway from the Triassic of Vieux Emosson, SW Switzerland: stratigraphic implications

    Article • Swiss Journal of Geosciences, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  66. A new hybodont with a cutting dentition from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand

    Article • Cretaceous Research, June 2009, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  67. Morphometric and taphonomic study of a ray-finned fish assemblage (Lepidotes buddhabutrensis, Semionotidae) from the Late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous of NE Thailand

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2009, Geological Society

    Lionel Cavin

  68. The Jurassic and Cretaceous bony fish record (Actinopterygii, Dipnoi) from Thailand

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2009, Geological Society

    Lionel Cavin

  69. Sédimentologie et paléontologie des paléoenvironnements côtiers rupéliens de la Molasse marine rhénane dans le Jura suisse

    Article • Swiss Journal of Geosciences, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  70. Fishes and the Break-up of Pangaea: an introduction

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2008, Geological Society

    Lionel Cavin

  71. Palaeobiogeography of Cretaceous bony fishes (Actinistia, Dipnoi and Actinopterygii)

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2008, Geological Society

    Lionel Cavin

  72. The first sinamiid fish (Holostei: Halecomorpha) from Southeast Asia (Early Cretaceous of Thailand)

    Article • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Lionel Cavin

  73. Correlation between environment and Late Mesozoic ray-finned fish evolution

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, March 2007, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  74. Using ghost lineages to identify diversification events in the fossil record

    Article • Biology Letters, February 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Lionel Cavin

  75. A new Thai Mesozoic lungfish (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) with an insight into post-Palaeozoic dipnoan evolution

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, February 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Lionel Cavin

  76. Minute theropod eggs and embryo from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand and the dinosaur-bird transition

    Article • The Science of Nature, September 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  77. Latest European coelacanth shows Gondwanan affinities

    Article • Biology Letters, April 2005, Royal Society Publishing

    Lionel Cavin

  78. Stratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical significance of fossil wood from the Mesozoic Khorat Group of Thailand

    Article • Geological Magazine, May 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Lionel Cavin

  79. A new Semionotid (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii) from the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous of Thailand

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, July 2003, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Lionel Cavin

  80. New Teleostei from the Agua Nueva Formation (Turonian), Vallecillo (NE Mexico)

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, July 2003, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle

    Lionel Cavin

  81. Preliminary Report on the Courtedoux Dinosaur Tracksite from the Kimmeridgian of Switzerland

    Article • Ichnos, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Lionel Cavin

  82. Effects of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event on Bony Fishes

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lionel Cavin

  83. L'évolution paléoenvironnementale des faunes de poissons du Crétacé supérieur du bassin du Tafilalt et des régions avoisinantes (Sud-Est du Maroc) : implications paléobiogéographiques

    Article • Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science, November 2001, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  84. A new Lepisosteidae (Actinopterygii, Ginglymodi) from the Cretaceous of the Kem Kem Beds, southern Morocco

    Article • BSGF – Earth Sciences Bulletin, September 2001, EDP Sciences

    Lionel Cavin

  85. Osteology and systematic affinities of Palaeonotopterus greenwoodi Forey 1997 (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha)

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, September 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Lionel Cavin

  86. Chapitre D9 Restes de poissons actinoptérygiens dans le Campanien-Maastrichtien de Tercis les Bains (France)

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  87. Stratigraphic succesion of the Upper Cretaceous fish assemblages of Kras (Slovenia)

    Article • Geologija, December 2000, Geological Survey of Slovenia

    Lionel Cavin

  88. A new Palaeocene albulid (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) from the Ouled Abdoun phosphatic basin, Morocco

    Article • Geological Magazine, September 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Lionel Cavin

  89. A new clupavidae (teleostei, ostariophysi) from the Cenomanian of Daoura (Morocco)

    Article • Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science, November 1999, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  90. Découverte d'un gisement à vertébrés dans le Maastrichtien supérieur des Petites-Pyrénées

    Article • Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science, June 1999, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  91. Un nouveau gisement de vert�br�s du cr�tac� sup�rieur � cruzy (h�rault, sud de la France)

    Article • Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science, February 1999, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  92. Nouveaux Teleostei du gisement du Turonien inférieur de Goulmima (Maroc)

    Article • Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science, November 1997, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  93. Late Cretaceous non-marine vertebrates from southern France: A review of recent finds

    Article • Geobios, January 1997, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  94. Les Actinoptérygiens et la limite Crétacé-Tertiaire

    Article • Geobios, January 1995, Elsevier

    Lionel Cavin

  95. Structure d'une population subalpine de Lézards vivipares (Lacerta vivipara Jacquin, 1787)

    Article • Revue suisse de zoologie, January 1993, Biodiversity Heritage Library

    Lionel Cavin