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Featured Image: Teeth from the lower jaw of an antelope, featured in an article published in PLOS ONE that focused on crowdsourcing image outlines for paleontological research. Source: Matthews et al. 2017. CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns (Scientific Reports) Common species link global ecosystems to climateContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 14, 2017”

Featured Image: New methods for scanning large fossils was published this week in PLOS ONE. From Das et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns (Scientific Reports) New records of the Bryozoan Metrarabdotos from the Pirabas Formation (Lower Miocene), Pará State, Brazil (PalaeoE) A U-Pb zirconContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: July 7, 2017”

Featured Image: MJSN TCH006-574, Plesiochelys etalloni (Kimmeridgian, Porrentruy, Switzerland). From Pütener et al (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Further study of Late Devonian seed plant Cosmosperma polyloba: its reconstruction and evolutionary significance (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Pleistocene reefs of the Egyptian Red Sea: environmental change and community persistence (PeerJ) Ademosynidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): A new concept for aContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 30, 2017”

Featured Image: Remnant of a typical hydrothermal quartz dyke in the northern Jack Hills region / Western Australia which crystallized presumably in Archaean time in deeper parts of a shear-dominated crust (photograph by Thomas Kirnbauer, with permission). From Schreiber et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Organic compounds in fluid inclusions of Archean quartz—Analogues of prebioticContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 23, 2017”

Featured Image: Skull of specimen MCP-PV-1600-T (holotype of Probelesodon kitchingi) in lateral view. From Martinelli et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data (Scientific Reports) Tiny pollen grains: first evidence of Saururaceae from the Late Cretaceous of western North America (PeerJ) Time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of pteropods (PLOS ONE) PhylogeographyContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 16, 2017”

Featured Image: The Jurassic fish Cavenderichthys from the Talbralgar Beds of Australia, shown under an Aluminum elemental map. From Frese et al. (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Disc-shaped fossils resembling porpitids or eldonids from the early Cambrian (Series 2: Stage 4) of western USA (PeerJ) A new scyphozoan from the Cambrian Fortunian Stage of South ChinaContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 9, 2017”

Featured Image: Reconstruction of Camarasaurus, based on specimen GPDM 220. Art by Scott Hartman. From Woodruff and Foster (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Phylogenomic analyses of Crassiclitellata support major Northern and Southern Hemisphere clades and a Pangaean origin for earthworms (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Surviving anoxia in marine sediments: The metabolic response of ubiquitous benthic foraminifera (Ammonia tepida)ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: June 2, 2017”

Featured Image:   Dorsal view of Promecops (Promecodes) divarichela n. sp. in Dominican amber. From Poinar and Legalov (2017). Papers (All Open Access): Impact of e-publication changes in the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (Melbourne Code, 2012) – did we need to “run for our lives”? (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Five newContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 26, 2017”

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”

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”