Category Archives: Fossil Friday Roundup

Featured Image: Fossilized school of fish. From Mizumoto et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): The Effect of Fossil Sampling on the Estimation of Divergence Times With The Fossilised Birth Death Process (Systematic Biology) Swapping Birth and Death: Symmetries and Transformations in Phylodynamic Models (Systematic Biology) An overview of Open Access publishing in palaeontology (PalaeoE)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 31, 2019”

Featured Image: Isometric 3D models of Nautilus pompilius and Nautilus pompilius. From Petermann et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Regional correlation of the Sonsela Member (Upper Triassic Chinle Formation) and detrital U-Pb zircon data from the Sonsela Sandstone bed near the Sonsela Buttes, northeastern Arizona, USA, support the presence of a distributive fluvial system (Geosphere) Early-Middle Pleistocene environmentalContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 24, 2019”

*Saturday edition Featured Image: Reconstruction of Brasilodon quadrangularis (left) and Riograndia guaibensis (right), two abundant probainognathian cynodonts from the Riograndia AZ of the Candelária Sequence, Santa Maria Supersequence (Brazil). Art by Jorge Blanco. From Guignard et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Ignoring stratigraphic age uncertainty leads to erroneous estimates of species divergence times under the fossilizedContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday* Roundup: May 11, 2019”

Featured Image: Skeletal reconstructions of Gobihadros mongoliensis. From Tsogtbaatar et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): BP Gulf of Mexico Neogene Astronomically-tuned Time Scale (BP GNATTS) (GSA Bulletin) Sedimentological Characteristics And Paleoenvironmental Implication Of Triassic Vertebrate Localities In Villány (Villány Hills, Southern Hungary) (Geological Carpathica) Response of grassland ecosystem to monsoonal precipitation variability during the Mid-Late Holocene: InferencesContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 19, 2019”

Featured Image: MGGC 7456, Tethytrygon muricatus, stingray. From Fanti et al (2019). Papers (All Open Access): An endemic microphytoplankton assemblage from Middle Devonian Iberia and its paleogeographical significance (Review of Paleobotany and Palynology) Leaf anatomy and ultrastructure in senescing ancient tree, Platycladus orientalis L. (Cupressaceae) (PeerJ) Ecdysis in a stem-group euarthropod from the early Cambrian ofContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 12, 2019”

Featured Image: From Zitouni et al. (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Bulletin of Geosciences, Czech Geological Survey — Multiple articles! (Link) Tracking voluminous Permian volcanism of the Choiyoi Province into central Antarctica (Lithosphere) Mid-Pleistocene transition in glacial cycles explained by declining CO2 and regolith removal (ScienceAdvances) A stem group echinoderm from the basal Cambrian ofContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 5, 2019”

Featured Image: Tylosaurus bernardi IRScNB 3672. From Jiménez-Huidobro and Caldwell (2019). Papers (All Open Access): Darwin review: angiosperm phylogeny and evolutionary radiations (ProcB) A new species of Zorotypus (Insecta, Zoraptera, Zorotypidae) and the earliest known suspicious mating behavior of Zorapterans from the mid‐cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Link) Predators And Preys: A Case History For Saurichthys (Costasaurichthys) costasquamosus Rieppel,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 29, 2019”

*A special Sunday Edition of the Fossil Friday Roundup! Let’s call it #SuperFossilSunday Roundup! For a even more thorough list of the latest OA pubs, head on over to our Twitter! Featured Image: Beremindia fissidens. From Moya-Costa et al. 2019. Papers (All Open Access): Recurrent palaeo-wildfires in a Cisuralian coal seam: A palaeobotanical view onContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday* Roundup: March 24, 2019”