Tag Archives: Fossil Friday Roundup

Featured Image: Sclerobionts on mollusc shells. From Agostini et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): In defence of the three-domains of life paradigm (BMC Evolutionary Biology) The Vicissicaudata revisited – insights from a new aglaspidid arthropod with caudal appendages from the Furongian of China (Scientific Reports) The evolutionary history of Stomatopoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca) inferred from molecularContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 22, 2017”

Featured Image: Utahceratops gettyi, a ceratopsian named in honor of Mike Getty, who passed away this week. From Sampson et al (2010). Papers (All Open Access): End-Cretaceous akaganéite as a mineral marker of Deccan volcanism in the sedimentary record (Scientific Reports) Fossil calibrations for the cockroach phylogeny (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), comments on the use of wings forContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 15, 2017”

Featured Image: CT rendering of the jaws of Rhynchobatus. From Dean et al. (2017) Papers (All Open Access): Myosin repertoire expansion coincides with eukaryotic diversification in the Mesoproterozoic era (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Architecture of crossed-lamellar bivalve shells: the southern giant clam (Tridacna derasa, Röding, 1798) (RSOS) The semi-aquatic pondweed bugs of a Cretaceous swamp (PeerJ) First recordContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 8, 2017”

Featured Image: Paratype of †Sorbinicharax verraesi. MCSNV Na 47. From Mayrinck et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): The functional head of the Cambrian radiodontan (stem-group Euarthropoda) Amplectobelua symbrachiata (BMC Evolutionary Biology) New insights into Mesozoic cycad evolution: an exploration of anatomically preserved Cycadaceae seeds from the Jurassic Oxford Clay biota (PeerJ) The wasp larva’s lastContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 1, 2017”

Featured Image: Holotype of Mesembrinella caenozoica sp. nov. From Cerretti et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Heterogenous oceanic redox conditions through the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary limited the metazoan zonation (Scientific Reports) First fossil of an oestroid fly (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea) and the dating of oestroid divergences (PLOS ONE) Redefining the extinct orders Miomoptera and Hypoperlida asContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 25, 2017”

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”