Featured Image: Reconstruction of Sinosauropteryx. From Smithwick et al. (2017). CC-BY. You can choose who deserves the honor of being among the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017! Vote here! Papers (All Open Access): Foraminifera biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of Well 5, OML 34, Niger Delta, Nigeria (PalaeoE) Pteropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Thecosomata) from the Eocene/Oligocene boundary intervalContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: October 27, 2017”
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Fossil Friday Roundup: October 20, 2017
Featured Image: Foreyia maxkuhnia, a new Triassic coelacanth. From Cavin et al. (2017). Have you voted for the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017? It’s not too late! Papers (All Open Access): Sediment microbial taxonomic and functional diversity in a natural salinity gradient challenge Remane’s “species minimum” concept (PeerJ) Extending the scope ofContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: October 20, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: October 13, 2017
Featured Image: Avicranium renestoi. Art by Matt Celeskey. From Pritchard and Nesbitt (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Nuclei and nucleoli in embryo-like fossils from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota (Precambrian Research) Embracing Uncertainty in Reconstructing Early Animal Evolution (Current Biology) The stalked filter feeder Siphusauctum lloydguntheri n. sp. from the middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) SpenceContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: October 13, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: October 6, 2017
Featured Image: Digestive tract (in yellow) of Phosphotriton, an Eocene salamander. From Tissier et al. (2017), CC-BY) Papers (All Open Access): Insight into Central Asian flora from the Cenozoic Tianshan montane origin and radiation of Lagochilus (Lamiaceae) (PLOS ONE) Tip-dated phylogeny of whirligig beetles reveals ancient lineage surviving on Madagascar (Scientific Reports) Exceptional soft tissues preservationContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: October 6, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: September 29, 2017
Featured Image: Palaeolenus lantenoisi trilobite. From Hopkins et al. (2017). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): A new Late Devonian isoetalean lycopsid from New South Wales, Australia: Cymastrobus irvingii gen. et sp. nov. (PalaeoE) Taxonomy and species diversity of Holocene pylonioid radiolarians from surface sediments of the northeastern Indian Ocean (PalaeoE) Late Permian wood-borings reveal an intricateContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 29, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: September 22, 2017
Featured Image: Sclerobionts on mollusc shells. From Agostini et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): In defence of the three-domains of life paradigm (BMC Evolutionary Biology) The Vicissicaudata revisited – insights from a new aglaspidid arthropod with caudal appendages from the Furongian of China (Scientific Reports) The evolutionary history of Stomatopoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca) inferred from molecularContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 22, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: September 15, 2017
Featured Image: Utahceratops gettyi, a ceratopsian named in honor of Mike Getty, who passed away this week. From Sampson et al (2010). Papers (All Open Access): End-Cretaceous akaganéite as a mineral marker of Deccan volcanism in the sedimentary record (Scientific Reports) Fossil calibrations for the cockroach phylogeny (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), comments on the use of wings forContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 15, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: September 8, 2017
Featured Image: CT rendering of the jaws of Rhynchobatus. From Dean et al. (2017) Papers (All Open Access): Myosin repertoire expansion coincides with eukaryotic diversification in the Mesoproterozoic era (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Architecture of crossed-lamellar bivalve shells: the southern giant clam (Tridacna derasa, Röding, 1798) (RSOS) The semi-aquatic pondweed bugs of a Cretaceous swamp (PeerJ) First recordContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 8, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: September 1, 2017
Featured Image: Paratype of †Sorbinicharax verraesi. MCSNV Na 47. From Mayrinck et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): The functional head of the Cambrian radiodontan (stem-group Euarthropoda) Amplectobelua symbrachiata (BMC Evolutionary Biology) New insights into Mesozoic cycad evolution: an exploration of anatomically preserved Cycadaceae seeds from the Jurassic Oxford Clay biota (PeerJ) The wasp larva’s lastContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 1, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: August 25, 2017
Featured Image: Holotype of Mesembrinella caenozoica sp. nov. From Cerretti et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Heterogenous oceanic redox conditions through the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary limited the metazoan zonation (Scientific Reports) First fossil of an oestroid fly (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea) and the dating of oestroid divergences (PLOS ONE) Redefining the extinct orders Miomoptera and Hypoperlida asContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 25, 2017”
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