Tag Archives: Fossil Friday Roundup

Featured Image: Homo antecessor molars, from Martín-Francés et al. (2018). CC-BY Papers (All Open Access): Synchrotron and Neutron Tomography of Paleontological Objects on the Facilities of the Kurchatov Institute (Journal of Imaging) Stepwise oxygenation of the Paleozoic atmosphere (Nature Communications) The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland—A geochemical window on early Cambrian low-oxygen environments andContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: October 5, 2018”

Featured Image: Pachycormus from Strawberry Bank. Right lateral view of BRLSI M1297. From Cawley et al. (2018). CC-BY Papers (All Open Access): A centuries-long delay between a paleo-ice-shelf collapse and grounding-line retreat in the Whales Deep Basin, eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica (Scientific Reports) Genus Pronephrium Presl 1851 (Thelypteridaceae) in Romania (Journal of Palaeogeography) A new fossilContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 28, 2018”

Featured Image: Molfetta dinosaur tracks, photogrammetry derived 3D models and interpretations; 1-2, DEM and contour line map of a theropod footprint (contour lines have an interval of 0.2 cm). From Petti et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Quantifying the dark data in museum fossil collections as palaeontology undergoes a second digital revolution (Biology Letters)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 21, 2018”

Featured Image: Reconstruction in sketch of Yizhousaurus in left lateral view (drawn by Xiao-Cong Guo), regions in red rim represent absent elements. From Zhang et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Stratigraphic signatures of mass extinctions: ecological and sedimentary determinants (Proc B) Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni (Papers in Palaeontology) The middle MioceneContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 14, 2018”

Featured Image: Metaceratodus ellioti teeth, Kemp, QM F14971 (Photo: Rodney Berrell). From Fletcher et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Episodic Sedimentary Evolution of an Alluvial Fan (Huangshui Catchment, NE Tibetan Plateau) (Quaternary) The palaeoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia (PeerJ) Discussion meeting issue ‘Hyperthermals: rapid and extreme globalContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: September 7, 2018”

Featured Image: Lower first molars of the type specimen of D. carinthiacus (LMK-Pal 5508) in occlusal view. From Fuss et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): The Alboran volcanic-arc modulated the Messinian faunal exchange and salinity crisis (Scientific Reports) Marine microorganisms as amber inclusions: insights from coastal forests of New Caledonia (Fossil Record) Amber inContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 31, 2018”

Featured Image: Skull of referred specimen of Aetosauroides scagliai(UFSM 11505), right lateral view. From Biacchi Brust et al (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): What affects power to estimate speciation rate shifts? (PeerJ) Young species of cupuladriid bryozoans occupied new Caribbean habitats faster than old species (Scientific Reports) A new genus of fungus weevils (Coleoptera: Anthribidae)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 24, 2018”

Featured Image: Spinosaurus aegypticus model. From Henderson (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Specifying the External Impact on Fluvial Lowland Evolution: The Last Glacial Tisza (Tisa) Catchment in Hungary and Serbi (Quaternary) Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene (PNAS) Palaeoecology of the Upper Tournaisian (Mississippian) crinoidal limestones from South Belgium (Geologica Belgica) Evolutionary historyContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 17, 2018”

Featured Image: Triassic pentadactyl tracks from Argentina. From Citton et al. (2018). CC-BY.  Papers (All Open Access): Cambrian petalonamid Stromatoveris phylogenetically links Ediacaran biota to later animals (Palaeontology) Salvinialean megaspores in the Late Cretaceous of southern Patagonia, Argentina (APP) Early Triassic Griesbachian microbial mounds in the Upper Yangtze Region, southwest China: Implications for biotic recoveryContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 10, 2018”

Featured Image: Type specimen of Altirhinus in lateral view. Photograph credit: Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar. From Gates et al. (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Carnian (Late Triassic) ostracods from the Sorgun Ophiolitic Mélange (Southern Turkey): Taxonomy, palaeoenvironment, and evidence of predation (PalaeoE) Transient marine euxinia at the end of the terminal Cryogenian glaciation (Nature Comm) It’s aContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: August 3, 2018”