Featured Image: Isometric 3D models of Nautilus pompilius and Nautilus pompilius. From Petermann et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Regional correlation of the Sonsela Member (Upper Triassic Chinle Formation) and detrital U-Pb zircon data from the Sonsela Sandstone bed near the Sonsela Buttes, northeastern Arizona, USA, support the presence of a distributive fluvial system (Geosphere) Early-Middle Pleistocene environmentalContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: May 24, 2019"

*Saturday edition Featured Image: Reconstruction of Brasilodon quadrangularis (left) and Riograndia guaibensis (right), two abundant probainognathian cynodonts from the Riograndia AZ of the Candelária Sequence, Santa Maria Supersequence (Brazil). Art by Jorge Blanco. From Guignard et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Ignoring stratigraphic age uncertainty leads to erroneous estimates of species divergence times under the fossilizedContinue reading "Fossil Friday* Roundup: May 11, 2019"

Featured Image: Skeletal reconstructions of Gobihadros mongoliensis. From Tsogtbaatar et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): BP Gulf of Mexico Neogene Astronomically-tuned Time Scale (BP GNATTS) (GSA Bulletin) Sedimentological Characteristics And Paleoenvironmental Implication Of Triassic Vertebrate Localities In Villány (Villány Hills, Southern Hungary) (Geological Carpathica) Response of grassland ecosystem to monsoonal precipitation variability during the Mid-Late Holocene: InferencesContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: April 19, 2019"

Featured Image: MGGC 7456, Tethytrygon muricatus, stingray. From Fanti et al (2019). Papers (All Open Access): An endemic microphytoplankton assemblage from Middle Devonian Iberia and its paleogeographical significance (Review of Paleobotany and Palynology) Leaf anatomy and ultrastructure in senescing ancient tree, Platycladus orientalis L. (Cupressaceae) (PeerJ) Ecdysis in a stem-group euarthropod from the early Cambrian ofContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: April 12, 2019"

Featured Image: From Zitouni et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Bulletin of Geosciences, Czech Geological Survey — Multiple articles! (Link) Tracking voluminous Permian volcanism of the Choiyoi Province into central Antarctica (Lithosphere) Mid-Pleistocene transition in glacial cycles explained by declining CO2 and regolith removal (ScienceAdvances) A stem group echinoderm from the basal Cambrian ofContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: April 5, 2019"

Featured Image: Tylosaurus bernardi IRScNB 3672. From Jiménez-Huidobro and Caldwell (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Darwin review: angiosperm phylogeny and evolutionary radiations (ProcB) A new species of Zorotypus (Insecta, Zoraptera, Zorotypidae) and the earliest known suspicious mating behavior of Zorapterans from the mid‐cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Link) Predators And Preys: A Case History For Saurichthys (Costasaurichthys) costasquamosus Rieppel,Continue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: March 29, 2019"

*A special Sunday Edition of the Fossil Friday Roundup! Let's call it #SuperFossilSunday Roundup! For a even more thorough list of the latest OA pubs, head on over to our Twitter! Featured Image: Beremindia fissidens. From Moya-Costa et al. 2019. Papers (All Open Access): Recurrent palaeo-wildfires in a Cisuralian coal seam: A palaeobotanical view onContinue reading "Fossil Friday* Roundup: March 24, 2019"

Featured Image:  Galleonosaurus dorisae n. gen. n. sp. from the Flat Rocks Sandstone in the upper Barremian, Wonthaggi Formation, Gippsland Basin, southeastern Australia holotype (NMV P229196), left maxilla in lateral view. from Hernes et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): The lower Bajocian Gaetani Level: lithostratigraphic marker of a potential Oceanic Anoxic Event (RIPS) A surveyContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: March 15, 2019"