Featured Image: Artistic life reconstruction of the new species Galeamopus pabsti from the Jurassic of Wyoming, USA, by Davide Bonadonna (Milan, Italy). Copyright: Davide Bonadonna, permission granted for use in news articles. See Tschopp and Mateus (2017). Papers (All Open Access): The Weng’an Biota (Doushantuo Formation): an Ediacaran window on soft-bodied and multicellular microorganisms (Journal ofContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 5, 2017”
Author Archives: Sarah Z. Gibson
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 28, 2017
Featured Image: Juvenile specimen of Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis (PMOL-AR00007). From Shao et al (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Polyphyly of the extinct family Oviparosiphidae and its implications for inferring aphid evolution (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha) (PLOS ONE) The phylogeny of fossil whip spiders (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Miocene sepiids (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea) from Australia (Fossil Record) Redescription of ‘Perleidus’ (Osteichthys, Actinopterygii)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 28, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 21, 2017
Featured Image:Triassic archosauromorph tracks from the Catalan Pyrenees. From Mujal et al. (2017) Papers (All Open Access): Problems related to the taxonomic placement of incompletely preserved amber fossils: transfer of the Paleogene liverwort Cylindrocolea dimorpha (Cephaloziellaceae) to the extant Odontoschisma sect. iwatsukia (Cephaloziaceae) (Fossil Record) Early Devonian (Late Emsian) shark fin remains (Chondrichthyes) from theContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 21, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 14, 2017
Featured Image: Reconstruction of Teleocrater rhadinus in a Middle Triassic scene. Artwork by Mark Witton. From Nesbitt et al (2017), see press release here. Papers (All Open Access): The genera Architipula Handlirsch, 1906 and Grimmenia Krzemiński and Zessin, 1990 (Diptera: Limoniidae) from the Lower Jurassic of England (PalaeoE) Methods for isolation and quantification of microfossil fish teethContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 14, 2017”
Paleoartist Profile: The Historian Himself, Brian Engh, Part 2
UPDATED July 2025: Fixed broken links and images, updated contact information for Brian. Continuing our interview with Part 1 of our interview with paleoartist Brian Engh of Living Relic Productions. Brian recently had the opportunity to discuss his work during a lecture at the Raymond Alf Museum in southern California. The entire lecture was recordedContinueContinue reading “Paleoartist Profile: The Historian Himself, Brian Engh, Part 2”
Paleoartist Profile: The Historian Himself, Brian Engh, Part 1
UPDATED July 2025: Fixed broken links and images, updated Brian’s contact information. You may recognize the artwork above as that of Aquilops, a pint-sized ceratopsian that was recently described and published in PLOS ONE by our own community editor Andy Farke, which he wrote about here for PLOS Paleo. The artwork was just one of manyContinueContinue reading “Paleoartist Profile: The Historian Himself, Brian Engh, Part 1”
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 7, 2017
Featured Image: Edmontosaurus reconstruction from Xing et al. 2017, published this past week in PLOS ONE. Papers (All Open Access): Fossils matter: improved estimates of divergence times in Pinus reveal older diversification (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Eobowenia gen. nov. from the Early Cretaceous of Patagonia: indication for an early divergence of Bowenia? (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Stars inContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 7, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 31, 2017
Featured Image: Reconstruction of Crocuta spelaea in the vicinity of Los Aprendices Cave, feeding on the carcass of a specimen of Capra pyrenaica (illustration by Gianfranco Mensi). From Sauqué et al (2017) Papers (All Open Access): The blueprint of the Amphiesmenoptera – Tarachoptera, a new order of insects from Burmese amber (Insecta, Amphiesmenoptera) (Fossil Record) Ecology,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 31, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 24, 2017
Featured Image: Jaw of Argyromys cicigei, from López-Guerrero et al. 2017, PLOS ONE. Papers (All Open Access): Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications (PalaeoE) A multidisciplinary approach to digital mapping of dinosaurian tracksites in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia (PeerJ) Accuracy andContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 24, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 17, 2017
Featured Image: UCMP 125854, Papio izodi, and UCMP 125856, Papio izodi. From Monson et al. (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): Patterns of craniofacial variation and taxonomic diversity in the South African Cercopithecidae fossil record (PalaeoE) Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae (PLOS Biology) 168 million years old “marineContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 17, 2017”
Sarah Z. Gibson 