Category Archives: Fossil Friday Roundup

Featured Image: Lungfish tooth plate, Ballagadus caustrimi 2017.2.67. From Clack et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): An endemic flora of dispersed spores from the Middle Devonian of Iberia (Papers in Paleontology) Quantitative Late Quaternary Climate Reconstruction from Plant Macrofossil Communities in Western North America (Open Quaternary) The phylum Vertebrata: a case for zoological recognition (ZoologicalContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: January 4, 2019”

Featured Image: Experimental lithic-tool damage on goat bones under SEM. From Wiest et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): The Las Vegas Formation (USGS) Recurrent hardgrounds and their significance for intra-basinal correlations: a case study of upper Bathonian rocks from the western margin of the Indian craton (Journal of Paleogeography) An endemic flora of dispersedContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 28, 2018”

Featured Image: Because it’s too cool not to share again this week. Cretoxyrhina attacking Pteranodon. Image credit: Mark Witton. From Hone et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Closing the gap between palaeontological and neontological speciation and extinction rate estimates (Nature Communications) Anomaly Detection in Paleoclimate Records Using Permutation Entropy (Entropy) Closure of the Bering StraitContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: Friday December 21, 2018”

Featured Image: Complete articulated skeleton and carapace of the Miocene armadillo Prozaedyus proximus (MPM-PV 3506). From Vizcaíno et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Mapping the past: GIS and intrasite spatial analyses of fossil deposits in paleontological sites and their applications in taxonomy, taphonomy and paleoecology (PalaeoE) Considering planetary environments in origin of life studies (NatureContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 14, 2018”

Featured Image: The skull of Eretmochelys imbricata in four types of digital representation. From Raselli (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Rapid microevolution during recent range expansion to harsh environments (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Raman and infrared spectroscopy investigation of the root fossil (rhizoliths) from the Carboniferous period, Piauí Formation, Parnaíba Sedimentary Basin, Northeast Brazil (Vibrational Spectroscopy)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 7, 2018”

Featured Image: Scanning electron micrographs (SEM) of feathers. From Schweitzer et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Value of species and the evolution of conservation ethics (RSOS) New perspectives in the study of the Earth’s magnetic field and climate connection: The use of transfer entropy (PLOS ONE) Multi-decadal to centennial hydro-climate variability and linkage toContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 30, 2018”

Featured Image: Piramys auffenbergi, holotype skull, GSI 18133. From Ferriera et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): The Unfinished Synthesis?: Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology in the 20th Century (Journal of the History of Biology) A general pattern of the species abundance distribution (PeerJ) Negative biotic interactions drive predictions of distributions for species from a grasslandContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 16, 2018”

Featured Image: Changchunsaurus parvus, from Chen et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): First U-Pb zircon ages for late Miocene Ashfall Konservat-Lagerstätte and Grove Lake ashes from eastern Great Plains, USA (PLOS ONE) The Howiesons Poort lithic sequence of Klipdrift Shelter, southern Cape, South Africa (PLOS ONE) Stability trophic cascades in food chains (RSOS) Phylogeny,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 9, 2018”

Featured Image: Tomographic renderings of endoskeletal anatomy of †Saurichthys sp. (NHMD_157546_A), right lateral (mirrored) view. From Argyriou et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Colorado Plateau Coring Project, Phase I (CPCP-I): a continuously cored, globally exportable chronology of Triassic continental environmental change from western North America (Scientific Drilling) Highly bioavailable dust-borne iron delivered to the SouthernContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 2, 2018”

Featured Image: Comparison of the neural spine of Maraapunisaurus fargillimus restored as a rebbachisaurid (A), and the dorsal vertebrae of Rebbachisaurus garasbae (B), and Histriasaurus boscarollii (C). Increments on scale bars = 10 cm. From Carpenter (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Modelling determinants of extinction across two Mesozoic hyperthermal events (ProcB) The inseparability of samplingContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: October 26, 2018”