Category Archives: Fossil Friday Roundup

Featured Image: Lower jaw of Anatoliadelphys maasae, from Maga et al. 2017. CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Quid est Clea helena? Evidence for a previously unrecognized radiation of assassin snails (Gastropoda: Buccinoidea: Nassariidae) (PeerJ) Telychian (Llandovery, Silurian) conodonts from the LaPorte City Formation of eastern Iowa, USA (East-Central Iowa Basin) and their implications for global TelychianContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 18, 2017”

Featured Image: The skull of Moschops capensis AM4950 in photograph and reconstruction showing neural structures. From Benoit et al (2017). Papers (All Open Access): The fossil history of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) (Fossil Record) The late Maastrichtian Belemnella kazimiroviensis group (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea) in the Middle Vistula valley (Poland) and the Maastricht area (the Netherlands, Belgium) – taxonomyContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 11, 2017”

Featured Image: Plate 40, drawn by Mary Morland, from W. Buckland (1824b) showing the lectotype right dentary of Megalosaurus. From Howlett et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): First discovery of the charophycean green alga Lychnothamnus barbatus (Charophyceae) extant in the New World (American Journal of Botany) Evolutionary response to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau uplift: phylogeny andContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 4, 2017”

Featured Image: Maevia eureka from Riquelme and Menéndez-Acuña (2017) Papers (All Open Access): A Burmese amber fossil of Radula (Porellales, Jungermanniopsida) provides insights into the Cretaceous evolution of epiphytic lineages of leafy liverworts (Fossil Record) An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behaviour of early mantodeans (PeerJ) Geometric morphometricsContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 28, 2017”

Featured Image: Illustration of Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis drawn by Mr. Masato Hattori. From Tsogtbaatar et al. (2017). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Early evolution of radial glial cells in Bilateria (ProcB) Ecological interactions in Cloudina from the Ediacaran of Brazil: implications for the rise of animal biomineralization (Scientific Reports) Classical and new bioerosion trace fossils in CretaceousContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 21, 2017”

Featured Image: Teeth from the lower jaw of an antelope, featured in an article published in PLOS ONE that focused on crowdsourcing image outlines for paleontological research. Source: Matthews et al. 2017. CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns (Scientific Reports) Common species link global ecosystems to climateContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 14, 2017”

Featured Image: New methods for scanning large fossils was published this week in PLOS ONE. From Das et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns (Scientific Reports) New records of the Bryozoan Metrarabdotos from the Pirabas Formation (Lower Miocene), Pará State, Brazil (PalaeoE) A U-Pb zirconContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 7, 2017”

Featured Image: MJSN TCH006-574, Plesiochelys etalloni (Kimmeridgian, Porrentruy, Switzerland). From Pütener et al (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Further study of Late Devonian seed plant Cosmosperma polyloba: its reconstruction and evolutionary significance (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Pleistocene reefs of the Egyptian Red Sea: environmental change and community persistence (PeerJ) Ademosynidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): A new concept for aContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 30, 2017”

Featured Image: Remnant of a typical hydrothermal quartz dyke in the northern Jack Hills region / Western Australia which crystallized presumably in Archaean time in deeper parts of a shear-dominated crust (photograph by Thomas Kirnbauer, with permission). From Schreiber et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Organic compounds in fluid inclusions of Archean quartz—Analogues of prebioticContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 23, 2017”

Featured Image: Skull of specimen MCP-PV-1600-T (holotype of Probelesodon kitchingi) in lateral view. From Martinelli et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data (Scientific Reports) Tiny pollen grains: first evidence of Saururaceae from the Late Cretaceous of western North America (PeerJ) Time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of pteropods (PLOS ONE) PhylogeographyContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 16, 2017”