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  1. Crystal Organisation of Muscle Attachment Sites of Bivalved Marine Organisms: A Juxtaposition Between Brachiopod and Bivalved Mollusc Shells

    Article • Crystals, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  2. Li/Ca of modern brachiopods: A potential paleoseawater thermometer

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  3. Exploring the association between temperature and multiple ecomorphological traits of biocalcifiers (Brachiopoda)

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, June 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  4. Recent brachiopods from north-western Australia

    Article • Zootaxa, May 2025, Magnolia Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  5. First Report of Middle Eocene Micromorphic Brachiopods from Northeastern Libya: Taxonomy and Paleobiogeography Implications

    Article • Diversity, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  6. The brachiopod assemblage from the Maastrichtian white chalk at Chełm, eastern Poland: stratigraphical and palaeoecological implications

    Article • Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  7. Middle Miocene (Badenian) brachiopods from the Borač area (Carpathian Foredeep, Moravia, Czech Republic)

    Article • Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, January 2024, Polskie Towarzystwo Geologiczne - Polish Geological Society

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  8. New record of Middle Miocene (Badenian) brachiopods from Moravia, Czech Republic

    Article • Geologické výzkumy na Moravě a ve Slezsku, November 2023, Masaryk University Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  9. Isotopic disequilibrium in brachiopods disentangled with dual clumped isotope thermometry

    Article • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, October 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  10. Interhemispheric biodiversity peaks of living brachiopods coinciding with warm-temperate zones and correlated to a multitude of biotic, abiotic and evolutionary factors

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, August 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  11. New records of brachiopods from the Lower Miocene deposits of the Qom Formation of the Isfahan province, Central Iran

    Article • Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, June 2023, Sociedad Geologica Mexicana

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  12. Variation of shell ornamentation with latitude and water depth—A case study using living brachiopods

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, April 2023, Wiley

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  13. Eocene phymaraphiniid demosponges from South Western Australia: filling the gap

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, January 2023, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  14. Brachiopods from the Lower Red Formation (Lower Oligocene) of the Isfahan Province, Central Iran

    Article • Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, January 2023, Polskie Towarzystwo Geologiczne - Polish Geological Society

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  15. Early Oligocene brachiopods from the rocky-shore deposits at Mammendorf, central Germany

    Article • Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, January 2022, Polskie Towarzystwo Geologiczne - Polish Geological Society

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  16. The architecture of Recent brachiopod shells: diversity of biocrystal and biopolymer assemblages in rhynchonellide, terebratulide, thecideide and craniide shells

    Article • Marine Biology, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  17. Global biogeography of living brachiopods: Bioregionalization patterns and possible controls

    Article • PLOS One, November 2021, PLOS

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  18. The evolution of thecideide microstructures and textures: traced from Triassic to Holocene

    Article • Lethaia, April 2021, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  19. Taxonomic composition and assemblage structure of brachiopods from two submarine caves in the Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean

    Article • The European Zoological Journal, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  20. Brachiopods from the Palaeogene clastic deposits of north-western Italy

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, November 2020, Schweizerbart

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  21. New records of Recent brachiopods (Terebratulida) from the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Article • Marine Biology Research, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  22. Late Miocene biota from the Abad Member of the Carboneras-Nijar Basin (Spain, Andalusia): A bathyal fossil assemblage pre-dating the Messinian salinity crisis

    Article • Geobios, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  23. Bryozoans and brachiopods from the Lower Miocene deposits of the Qom Formation in North-East Isfahan (Central Iran)

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, November 2019, Schweizerbart

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  24. Strontium isotope geochemistry of modern and ancient archives: tracer of secular change in ocean chemistry

    Article • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, March 2019, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  25. A late Paleocene fauna from shallow-water chemosynthesis-based ecosystems, Spitsbergen, Svalbard

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, January 2019, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  26. Recent brachiopods collected during the ZhongSha 2015 expedition to the South China Sea, West Pacific

    Article • Marine Biology Research, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  27. Rediscovery of Terebratulina austroamericana Zezina, 1981 (Brachiopoda: Cancellothyrididae) from off northern Chile

    Article • Zootaxa, April 2018, Magnolia Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  28. The earliest Badenian Planostegina bloom deposit: reflection of an unusual environment in the westernmost Carpathian Foredeep (Czech Republic)

    Article • Geological Quarterly, January 2018, Polish Geological Institute

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  29. Geochemistry of the brachiopod Hemithiris psittacea from the Canadian Arctic: Implications for high latitude palaeoclimate studies

    Article • Chemical Geology, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  30. Recent brachiopods from the South China Sea, NW Pacific

    Article • Zootaxa, August 2017, Magnolia Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  31. Late Eocene (Priabonian) brachiopod fauna from Dnipropetrovsk, eastern Ukraine

    Article • Bulletin of Geosciences, June 2017, Czech Geological Survey

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  32. Redescription of Nanacalathis atlantica Zezina, 1991 (Brachiopoda: Chlidonophoridae) from the North Atlantic

    Article • Marine Biodiversity, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  33. On the type species of Lingularia, and description of Eolingularia n. gen.

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

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  34. Paleocene methane seep and wood-fall marine environments from Spitsbergen, Svalbard

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  35. Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona Basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees)

    Article • Journal of Iberian Geology, June 2016, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  36. Recent Brachiopoda from the Mozambique-Madagascar area, western Indian Ocean

    Article • Zoosystema, March 2016, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  37. Trace fossils from the Middle and Upper Eocene (Bartonian-Priabonian) molasse deposits of the Pamplona Basin (Navarre, western Pyrenees): palaeoenvironmental implications

    Article • Geological Journal, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  38. Middle Miocene (Badenian) brachiopods from Yasen, northwestern Bulgaria: taxonomic composition and biogeographical significance

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, January 2016, Schweizerbart

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  39. Checklist of recent brachiopod species collected during the Terrasses and Exbodi cruises in the New Caledonian region, SW Pacific

    Article • ZooKeys, November 2015, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  40. Scientific death-knell against databases? Errors induced by database manipulations and its consequences

    Article • Carnets Geol, November 2015, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  41. Carbon isotope composition in modern brachiopod calcite: A case of equilibrium with seawater?

    Article • Chemical Geology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  42. Unusual brachiopod fauna from the Middle Triassic algal meadows of Mt. Svilaja (Outer Dinarides, Croatia)

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, July 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  43. Brachiopods from the Silberberg Formation (Late Eocene to Early Oligocene) of Atzendorf, Central Germany

    Article • PalZ, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  44. Congruence and conflict: case studies of morphotaxonomy versus rDNA gene tree phylogeny among articulate brachiopods (Brachiopoda: Rhynchonelliformea), with description of a new genus

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  45. Brachiopods and bryozoans from the Sandberg section (Vienna Basin, Central Paratethys) and their significance for environmental interpretation of the Early Sarmatian (= Middle Miocene) Sea

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, August 2014, Schweizerbart

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  46. Living Brachiopods from French Polynesia, Central Pacific, with Descriptions of Two New Species

    Article • Pacific Science, April 2014, Pacific Science

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  47. New records of Recent Brachiopoda from the Red Sea with a description of a new species 

    Article • Zootaxa, December 2013, Magnolia Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  48. Oxygen isotopes and MgCO3 in brachiopod calcite and a new paleotemperature equation

    Article • Chemical Geology, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  49. Upper Oligocene (Chattian) brachiopod fauna from the Aquitaine Basin, southwestern France and its paleoenvironmental implications

    Article • Geodiversitas, September 2013, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  50. Phylum Brachiopoda. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013...

    Article • Zootaxa, August 2013, Magnolia Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  51. Morphological analysis of phylogenetic relationships among extant rhynchonellide brachiopods

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, July 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  52. Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) crinoids of the Hidas Valley (Mecsek Mountains, S Hungary) and their biogeographic significance

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

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  53. Molecular phylogeny of rhynchonellide articulate brachiopods (Brachiopoda, Rhynchonellida)

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, March 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  54. New paedomorphic brachiopods from the abyssal zone of the north-eastern Pacific Ocean

    Article • Zootaxa, February 2013, Magnolia Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  55. Deep-water brachiopod assemblage from the Middle Miocene of Kralice nad Oslavou, Moravia, southeastern Czech Republic

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  56. New record of Discradisca (Brachiopoda: Discinidae) from the Early Miocene of the Aquitaine Basin, south-western France

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  57. First record of Eocene brachiopods from the United Arab Emirates, Arabian Gulf and their paleogeographical significance

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, September 2012, Schweizerbart

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  58. Local catastrophe caused by tephra input near Přemyslovice (Moravia, Czech Republic) during the Middle Miocene

    Article • Geological Quarterly, June 2012, Polish Geological Institute

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  59. Geochemical compositions of Neogene phosphatic brachiopods: Implications for ancient environmental and marine conditions

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, April 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  60. First record of the genus Bronnothyris (Brachiopoda: Megathyrididae) from the Oligocene of the Mainz Basin (Germany)

    Article • Geologica Carpathica, June 2011, Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  61. X-ray Microtomography (XMT) of Fossil Brachiopod Shell Interiors for Taxonomy

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, June 2011, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  62. Vicariance and convergence in Magellanic and New Zealand long-looped brachiopod clades (Pan-Brachiopoda: Terebratelloidea)

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, January 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  63. Biogenic and abiogenic low-Mg calcite (bLMC and aLMC): Evaluation of seawater-REE composition, water masses and carbonate diagenesis

    Article • Chemical Geology, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  64. Middle Eocene brachiopods from the Szőc Limestone Formation (Bakony Mountains, Hungary), with a description of a new genus

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, January 2011, Schweizerbart

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  65. New record of the inarticulate brachiopod genus Discinisca from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of the Julian Alps, NW Slovenia

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, September 2010, Schweizerbart

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  66. Biodiversity of shallow-water brachiopods from New Caledonia, SW Pacific, with description of a new species

    Article • Scientia Marina, July 2010, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  67. A Monospecific Assemblage of Terebratulide Brachiopods in the Upper Cretaceous Seep Deposits of Omagari, Hokkaido, Japan

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, March 2010, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  68. A parautochthonous shallow marine fauna from the Late Burdigalian (early Ottnangian) of Gurlarn (Lower Bavaria, SE Germany): Macrofaunal inventory and paleoecology

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, November 2009, Schweizerbart

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  69. The Upper Burdigalian (Ottnangian) brachiopod fauna from the northern coast of the Upper Marine Molasse Sea in Bavaria, Southern Germany

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, November 2009, Schweizerbart

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  70. Recent Brachiopoda from the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia, with description of four new species

    Article • Zootaxa, September 2009, Magnolia Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  71. Brachiopods from the Chlamys Ledge Member (Polonez Cove Formation, Oligocene) of King George Island, West Antarctica

    Article • Polish Polar Research, September 2009, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  72. Orientations of the valves when presenting serial sections of post-Palaeozoic brachiopods: tradition and utilityversusthe revised Treatise

    Article • Lethaia, December 2008, Wiley

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  73. The sponge genusBrachiaster(Pachastrellidae, Demospongiae) and its first known fossil representative, from the late Eocene of southwestern Australia

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  74. Bioerosion on brachiopod shells – a Cenozoic perspective

    Article • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, September 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  75. Gyrothyris williamsi sp. nov. and inter-relationships of some taxa from waters around New Zealand and the southern oceans (Rhynchonelliformea: Terebratelloidea)

    Article • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, September 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  76. First record of Lingula (Brachiopoda) from the Miocene of France, with diagnosis of L. dregeri

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, May 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  77. High frequency of drill holes in brachiopods from the Pliocene of Algeria and its ecological implications

    Article • Lethaia, December 2006, Wiley

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  78. First Record of Brachiopods from the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, South Central Pacific

    Article • Pacific Science, January 2006, Project Muse

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  79. Brachiopods from the Sanadinovo Formation (Lower Cenomanian) in northern Bulgaria

    Article • Cretaceous Research, August 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  80. Late Eocene brachiopods from the Euganean Hills (NE Italy)

    Article • Swiss Journal of Geosciences, May 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  81. GLOTTIDIA (BRACHIOPODA: LINGULIDAE) FROM THE EOCENE LA MESETA FORMATION, SEYMOUR ISLAND, ANTARCTICA

    Article • Palaeontology, March 2005, Wiley

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  82. A case of intense predatory drilling of brachiopods from the Middle Miocene of southeastern Poland

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, November 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  83. The genus Cryptopora (Brachiopoda) from the Miocene of France and its history and biogeography

    Article • Geobios, January 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner

  84. Size-Frequency Distributions of Miocene Micromorphic Brachiopods: Interpretation Tool for Population Dynamics

    Article • Marine Ecology, May 2002, Wiley

    Dr Maria Aleksandra Bitner