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”
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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”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 31, 2017
Featured Image: Reconstruction of Crocuta spelaea in the vicinity of Los Aprendices Cave, feeding on the carcass of a specimen of Capra pyrenaica (illustration by Gianfranco Mensi). From Sauqué et al (2017) Papers (All Open Access): The blueprint of the Amphiesmenoptera – Tarachoptera, a new order of insects from Burmese amber (Insecta, Amphiesmenoptera) (Fossil Record) Ecology,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 31, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 24, 2017
Featured Image: Jaw of Argyromys cicigei, from López-Guerrero et al. 2017, PLOS ONE. Papers (All Open Access): Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications (PalaeoE) A multidisciplinary approach to digital mapping of dinosaurian tracksites in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia (PeerJ) Accuracy andContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 24, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 17, 2017
Featured Image: UCMP 125854, Papio izodi, and UCMP 125856, Papio izodi. From Monson et al. (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): Patterns of craniofacial variation and taxonomic diversity in the South African Cercopithecidae fossil record (PalaeoE) Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae (PLOS Biology) 168 million years old “marineContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 17, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 10, 2017
Featured Image: Egg Holotype of Suchoolithus portucalensis, oogen. and oosp. nov. Specimen FCT-UNL706 from Cambelas, Assenta Member, Lourinhã Formation, Upper Jurassic. The shape and preservation of the specimen suggests an unhatched clutch. From Russo et al. (2017) first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): Two new ootaxa from the late Jurassic: The oldest record of crocodylomorph eggs,ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 10, 2017”
Fossil Friday Roundup: March 3, 2017
Featured Image: Thalassomedon hanningtoni, University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM) 50132, U.S.A From Kear et al. (2017), first paper listed below. Papers (All Open Access): Exceptionally prolonged tooth formation in elasmosaurid plesiosaurians (PLOS ONE) Eocene/Oligocene deep-water agglutinated foraminifers (DWAF) assemblages from the Madonie Mountains (Sicily, Southern Italy) (PalaeoE) Neogene paleogeography provides context for understanding the origin andContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 3, 2017”
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