Category Archives: Fossil Friday Roundup

Featured Image: Cranium of Nothosaurus marchicus from Anisian of The Netherlands. From Voeten et al (2017), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Probabilistic inversion of expert assessments to inform projections about Antarctic ice sheet responses (PLOS ONE) Cave Ecosystems: Microbiological View (European Journal of Biology) How water availability influences morphological and biomechanical properties in the one-leafContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: January 5, 2018”

Featured Image: A new Oligocene dolphin from Ecuador. From Tanaka et al (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Origin and geochemical characterization of the glauconites in the Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation, Narmada Basin, central India (Journal of Palaeogeography) Additional contributions to the knowledge of the Taquaral Member, Irati Formation (Lower Permian, Paraná Basin): Taphonomy and paleoenvironmentalContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 29, 2017”

Featured Image: Happy Holidays from the PLOS Paleontology Community editors Andy, Jon, and Sarah! Papers (All Open Access): Rooting phylogenetic trees under the coalescent model using site pattern probabilities (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Deepest and hottest hydrothermal activity in the Okinawa Trough: the Yokosuka site at Yaeyama Knoll (RSOS) Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in endangered Pinus amamianaContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 22, 2017”

Featured Image: Reconstruction of the tick Deinocroton draculi on an immature feathered dinosaur. The reconstruction shows two unengorged males (left) and a female feeding to engorgement (right). Image by Oscar Sanisidro. From Peñalver et al (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Differences between hard and soft phylogenetic data (ProcB) A Biased, Misleading Review on Early Angiosperms (Natural Science) TheContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 15, 2017”

Featured Image: SEM Examples of pollen grains in Myrtales. From Kriebal et al (2017). Read our Latest Newsletter! Papers (All Open Access): The reproducibility of research and the misinterpretation of p-values (RSOS) Soft-Bodied Fossils Are Not Simply Rotten Carcasses – Toward a Holistic Understanding of Exceptional Fossil Preservation (BioEssays) A continuous morphological approach to studyContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: December 8, 2017”

Featured Image: Gastropod, from Adiya et al (2017) Papers (All Open Access): Redox-independent chromium isotope fractionation induced by ligand-promoted dissolution (Nature Communications) North Atlantic variability and its links to European climate over the last 3000 years (Nature Communications) Revised geochronology, correlation, and dinosaur stratigraphic ranges of the Santonian-Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) formations of the Western InteriorContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 24, 2017”

Featured Image: Brachiopods (Eohadrotreta zhenbaensis) from the Cambrian of China. From Zhang et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Stromatolites on the rise in peat-bound karstic wetlands (Scientific Reports) Does fuel type influence the amount of charcoal produced in wildfires? Implications for the fossil record (Palaeontology) Unlocking the biomineralization style and affinity of Paleozoic fusulinidContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 17, 2017”

Featured Image: Partial maxilla of spinosaur Irritator challengeri, from Sales and Schulz (2017), CC-BY. Less than 1 week to vote for the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017! Vote here before it’s too late! Papers (All Open Access): Ediacaran developmental biology (Biological Reviews) Toy trains, loaded dice and the origin of life: dimerization on mineral surfacesContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 10, 2017”

Featured Image: Reconstruction of adult female giraffid,  Decennatherium rex. Illustration by Oscar Sanisidro, from Ríos et al. (2017), CC-BY. Less than 2 weeks to vote for the Top 10 Open Access Fossil Taxa of 2017! Vote here before it’s too late! Papers (All Open Access): Leaf anatomy of a late Palaeozoic cycad (Biology Letters) Asteriacites and otherContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: November 3, 2017”