Author Archives: Sarah Z. Gibson

Featured Image: Type specimen of Altirhinus in lateral view. Photograph credit: Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar. From Gates et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Carnian (Late Triassic) ostracods from the Sorgun Ophiolitic Mélange (Southern Turkey): Taxonomy, palaeoenvironment, and evidence of predation (PalaeoE) Transient marine euxinia at the end of the terminal Cryogenian glaciation (Nature Comm) It’s aContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 3, 2018”

Featured Image: Reconstruction of Akainacephalus johnsoni in left lateral view. Preserved material in the skeletal reconstructions is highlighted in orange. From Wiersma and Irmis (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Equatorial cold-water tongue in the Late Ordovician (Geology) Stratigraphic characteristics of Quaternary deposits on the left bankof the Sava River near Belgrade (ANNALES GÉOLOGIQUES DE LA PÉNINSULEContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 27, 2018”

Featured Image: Upper deciduous dentition of Periptychus carinidens (AMNH 3794). From Shelley et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Anoxic ecosystems and early eukaryotes (Emerging Topics in Life Sciences) An epiphytacean-Girvanella (Cyanobacteria) symbiosis from the Cambrian (Series 3; Drumian) of North Greenland (Laurentia) (Bulletin of Geosciences) Temperature is a poor proxy for synergistic climateContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 20, 2018”

Featured Image: Lilingostrobus chaloneri gen. et sp. nov. Detail of pseudowhorls showing more than 5 leaves per pseudowhorl. Deeply sunken grooves indicating leaf midveins. From Gerrienne et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Improving preservation state assessment of carbonate microfossils in paleontological research using label-free stimulated Raman imaging (PLOS ONE) Lilingostrobus chaloneri gen. et sp. nov.,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 13, 2018”

Papers (All Open Access): Evaluation of the estimate bias magnitude of the Rao’s quadratic diversity index (PeerJ) Testing accuracy in 2D and 3D geometric morphometric methods for cut mark identification and classification (PeerJ) Local and relaxed clocks: the best of both worlds (PeerJ) A facies and palaeogeography-based approach for analysis of petroleum systems in UnitedContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 6, 2018”

Featured Image: Ceratosaurus, from Delacourt (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation (PLOS Biology) A new, three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach to assess egg shape (PeerJ) Extensive marine anoxia during the terminal Ediacaran Period (Science Advances) Body-size increase in crinoids following the end-Devonian mass extinction (Scientific Reports) Occurrence of DipleuraContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 29, 2018”

Editor’s note: Apologies for missing last week’s Fossil Friday Roundup! Below we’ve highlighted papers and blog posts from the past two weeks, so that you’ll remain caught up on all the latest paleo news and views! And be sure to follow us on Twitter, where we regularly post new Open Access papers of interest! FeaturedContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 22, 2018”

Featured Image: Xanthopimpla messelensis, from Spasojevic et al. 2018. Papers (All Open Access): How many landmarks are enough to characterize shape and size variation? (PLOS ONE) How does it feel? The affective domain and undergraduate student perception of fieldwork set in a broad pedagogical perspective (TJHE) Causality from palaeontological time series (Palaeontology) Abrupt global-ocean anoxia during theContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 8, 2018”

Featured Image: A reconstruction of the antiarch Phymolepis cuifengshanensis from the Devonian of China. Art by Dinghua Yang. From Wang and Zhu (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): The Weeks Formation Konservat-Lagerstätte and the evolutionary transition of Cambrian marine life (Journal of the Geological Society) Correction to: Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate (BMCContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: Jun 1, 2018”