Featured Image: From Schlager et al (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Retrodeformation of fossil specimens based on 3D bilateral semi-landmarks: Implementation in the R package “Morpho” (PLOS ONE) Experimental analysis of soft‐tissue fossilization: opening the black box (Palaeontology The fossilized birth-death model for the analysis of stratigraphic range data under different speciation modes) TheContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: March 23, 2018"

Featured Image: Tethydraco regalis FSAC-OB 199 ulna. From Longrich et al (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Atlantic deep water circulation during the last interglacial (Scientific Reports) Wangshangkia, a new Devonian ostracod genus from Dushan of Guizhou, South China (Journal of Micropalaeontology) Ostracods (Crustacea) as shelf to basin indicators: evidence from Late Devonian Yangdi and Nandong sectionsContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: March 16, 2018"

Featured Image: Artist’s reconstruction of the Permian reptile Captorhinus with an autotomous tail (inset showing anterior caudal vertebrae with fracture planes). Reconstruction by Danielle Dufault. From LeBlanc et al (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete and its evolutionary history—an integrative taxonomy approach (PeerJ) Development and evolution of tooth renewal in neoselachianContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: March 9, 2018"

Featured Image: Skull of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis from the Upper Triassic of southwest Poland (UOPB 01029). From Konietzko-Meier et al (2017), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Climate warming drives local extinction: Evidence from observation and experimentation (Science Advances) Warm and cold wet states in the western United States during the Pliocene–Pleistocene (Geology) Penetrative trace fossils from theContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: March 2, 2018"

Featured Image: Leaves constituting the litter are of Eretmophyllum (Ginkgoales), a common plant macroremain as cuticles in the Spanish amber-bearing strata. Body color of the collembolans is conjectural but based on the coloration seen in the close extant relatives (artist J. A. Peñas, with scientific supervision). From Sánchez-Garcia et al. (2017), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access):Continue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: February 23, 2018"

Featured Image: reconstruction of Limulus polyphemus in dorsal and ventral view. From Bicknell et al. (2017), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Syn-sedimentary tectonics and facies analysis in a rift setting: Cretaceous Dalmiapuram Formation, Cauvery Basin, SE India (Journal of Palaeogeography) UV-B–induced forest sterility: Implications of ozone shield failure in Earth’s largest extinction (Science Advances) DiatomContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: February 16, 2018"

Featured Image: Reconstruction of Tanystropheus. From Renesto and Saller (2017), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Cross-Scale Molecular Analysis of Chemical Heterogeneity in Shale Rocks (Scientific Reports) Testing optically stimulated luminescence dating on sand-sized quartz of deltaic deposits from the Sperchios delta plain, central Greece (Journal of Palaeogeography) Anomalous K-Pg–aged seafloor attributed to impact-induced mid-ocean ridge magmatismContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: February 9, 2018"

Featured Image: Polarized cross-section of dinosaur bone from Australia. From Woodward et al. (2017), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Eocene greenhouse climate revealed by coupled clumped isotope-Mg/Ca thermometry (PNAS) Pleistocene glaciation of Fenland, England, and its implications for evolution of the region (RSOS) Contrasting temperature trends across the ice-free part of Greenland (Scientific Reports) AContinue reading "Fossil Friday Roundup: January 26, 2018"