Featured Image: The Jurassic fish Cavenderichthys from the Talbralgar Beds of Australia, shown under an Aluminum elemental map. From Frese et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Disc-shaped fossils resembling porpitids or eldonids from the early Cambrian (Series 2: Stage 4) of western USA (PeerJ) A new scyphozoan from the Cambrian Fortunian Stage of South ChinaContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 9, 2017”
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Fossil Friday Roundup: June 2, 2017
Featured Image: Reconstruction of Camarasaurus, based on specimen GPDM 220. Art by Scott Hartman. From Woodruff and Foster (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Phylogenomic analyses of Crassiclitellata support major Northern and Southern Hemisphere clades and a Pangaean origin for earthworms (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Surviving anoxia in marine sediments: The metabolic response of ubiquitous benthic foraminifera (Ammonia tepida)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 2, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: May 26, 2017
Featured Image: Dorsal view of Promecops (Promecodes) divarichela n. sp. in Dominican amber. From Poinar and Legalov (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Impact of e-publication changes in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (Melbourne Code, 2012) – did we need to “run for our lives”? (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Five newContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 26, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: May 19, 2017
Featured Image: The ammonite Subplanites rueppellianus, from Lomax et al (2017) Papers (All Open Access): Carbonaceous and siliceous Neoproterozoic vase-shaped microfossils (Urucum Formation, Brazil) and the question of early protistan biomineralization (Journal of Paleontology) Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea) in early Eocene Cambay amber (PeerJ) An 8.5 m long ammonite drag mark from the Upper Jurassic SolnhofenContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 19, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: May 12, 2017
Featured Image: Beibeilong sinensis. Image credit: Zhao Chuang. See Pu et al. (2017) Papers (All Open Access): Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits (Nature Communications) Flowering after disaster: Early Danian buckthorn (Rhamnaceae) flowers and leaves from Patagonia (PLOS ONE) Tugenchromis pickfordi, gen. et sp. nov., from the upper Miocene—aContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 12, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: May 5, 2017
Featured Image: Artistic life reconstruction of the new species Galeamopus pabsti from the Jurassic of Wyoming, USA, by Davide Bonadonna (Milan, Italy). Copyright: Davide Bonadonna, permission granted for use in news articles. See Tschopp and Mateus (2017). Papers (All Open Access): The Weng’an Biota (Doushantuo Formation): an Ediacaran window on soft-bodied and multicellular microorganisms (Journal ofContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 5, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 28, 2017
Featured Image: Juvenile specimen of Manchurochelys manchoukuoensis (PMOL-AR00007). From Shao et al (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Polyphyly of the extinct family Oviparosiphidae and its implications for inferring aphid evolution (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha) (PLOS ONE) The phylogeny of fossil whip spiders (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Miocene sepiids (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea) from Australia (Fossil Record) Redescription of ‘Perleidus’ (Osteichthys, Actinopterygii)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 28, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 21, 2017
Featured Image:Triassic archosauromorph tracks from the Catalan Pyrenees. From Mujal et al. (2017) Papers (All Open Access): Problems related to the taxonomic placement of incompletely preserved amber fossils: transfer of the Paleogene liverwort Cylindrocolea dimorpha (Cephaloziellaceae) to the extant Odontoschisma sect. iwatsukia (Cephaloziaceae) (Fossil Record) Early Devonian (Late Emsian) shark fin remains (Chondrichthyes) from theContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 21, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 14, 2017
Featured Image: Reconstruction of Teleocrater rhadinus in a Middle Triassic scene. Artwork by Mark Witton. From Nesbitt et al (2017), see press release here. Papers (All Open Access): The genera Architipula Handlirsch, 1906 and Grimmenia Krzemiński and Zessin, 1990 (Diptera: Limoniidae) from the Lower Jurassic of England (PalaeoE) Methods for isolation and quantification of microfossil fish teethContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 14, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: April 7, 2017
Featured Image: Edmontosaurus reconstruction from Xing et al. 2017, published this past week in PLOS ONE. Papers (All Open Access): Fossils matter: improved estimates of divergence times in Pinus reveal older diversification (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Eobowenia gen. nov. from the Early Cretaceous of Patagonia: indication for an early divergence of Bowenia? (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Stars inContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 7, 2017”
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