Featured Image:  BMR P2002.4.1 maxilla. From Peterson and Daus (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Geological significance of new zircon U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry: Niuxinshan intrusive complex, northern North China Craton (PLOS ONE) Palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate in the western Liguria region (northwestern Italy) during the Last Glacial. The small mammal sequence of Riparo Mochi (Balzi Rossi,Continue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: March 8, 2019"

Featured Image: From Szczygielski et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Early Middle Devonian trilobites and events in the Nismes – Vireux-Molhain area, southern border of the Dinant Synclinorium (Belgium, northern France) (Geologica Belgica) Middle Miocene decapod crustacean assemblage from the Tuzla Basin (Tušanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina), with a description of two new species and comparisonContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: March 1, 2019"

Featured Image: Axial body models (constructed in FreeCAD) of (A) Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis (CV 00215), (B) Sinraptor hepingensis (ZDM 0024), and (C) Tarbosaurus bataar (ZPAL MgD-I/4). Papers (All Open Access): From data compilation to model validation: a comprehensive analysis of a full deep-sea ecosystem model of the Chatham Rise (PeerJ) Exceptionally well-preserved Orsten-type phosphatocopid crustaceans from theContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: February 22, 2019"

Featured Image: Teeth associated with Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia skeleton. From Gorscak and O'Connor (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Precise U-Pb age constrains on the Ediacaran biota in Podolia, East European Platform, Ukraine (SciRep) Impact of abrupt sea ice loss on Greenland water isotopes during the last glacial period (PNAS) Plant leaf tooth feature extraction (PLOS ONE) FirstContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: February 15, 2019"

Featured Image: A new study challenges the identity of a an isolated feather from the Jurassic Solnhofen limestone. From Kaye et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): First fossil harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from Spain and notes on the fossil record of Opiliones (PalaeoE) Tamilokus mabinia, a new, anatomically divergent genus and species of wood-boring bivalveContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: February 8, 2019"

Featured Image: .SR X-ray µCT renderings of dismembered foot, DIP-V-15105a. From Xing et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Speleothem Paleoclimatology for the Caribbean, Central America, and North America (Quaternary) First description of subglacial megalineations from the late Paleozoic ice age in southern Africa (PLOS ONE) Redefining the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation in Garden Park NationalContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: February 1, 2019"

Featured Image: First nearly complete specimen of the rare hupehsuchian Eretmorhipis carrolldongi (YAGM V 1401). From Cheng et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity (PNAS) The revolution of crossdating in marine palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology (Biology Letters) Burgess Shale fossils shed light on the agnostid problem (ProcB) Caught in theContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: January 25, 2019"

Featured Image: From Mangano et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Late Cenozoic cooling favored glacial over tectonic controls on sediment supply to the western Gulf of Mexico (Geology) Testate Amoebae in the 407-Million-Year-Old Rhynie Chert (Current Biology) The Jurassic fossil wood diversity from western Liaoning, NE China (J Palaeogeography) Trophic niche breadth of pondContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: January 18, 2019"

Featured Image:Hoplitaspis hiawathai, From Lamsdell et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): A 900-year New England temperature reconstruction from in situ seasonally produced branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) (Climate of the Past) Correlation of the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary sequences in the sections of West Srednogorie, Bulgaria, based on micro- and macrofossil data and sea level changesContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: January 11, 2019"

Featured Image: Lungfish tooth plate, Ballagadus caustrimi 2017.2.67. From Clack et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): An endemic flora of dispersed spores from the Middle Devonian of Iberia (Papers in Paleontology) Quantitative Late Quaternary Climate Reconstruction from Plant Macrofossil Communities in Western North America (Open Quaternary) The phylum Vertebrata: a case for zoological recognition (ZoologicalContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: January 4, 2019"