Tag Archives: fossil friday

Featured Image: View of Grotta La Fabbrica, from Villa et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Binary-state speciation and extinction method is conditionally robust to realistic violations of its assumptions (BMC Evolutionary Biology) Did the transition to plate tectonics cause Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth? (Terra Nova) An early Cambrian greenhouse climate (Science Advances) Middle Jurassic flora fromContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 11, 2018”

Featured Image: Citipati osmolskae, IGM 100/1004 in left lateral view. Anterior is to the left. From Norell et al. (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Quantifying the living fossil concept (PalaeoE) Getting somewhere with the Red Queen: chasing a biologically modern definition of the hypothesis (Biology Letters) Generalized conditions of spherical carbonate concretion formation around decaying organic matterContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: May 4, 2018”

Featured Image: From Nowakowski (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Quantifying ecological impacts of mass extinctions with network analysis of fossil communities (PNAS) Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoon (Nature Communications) Warm summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal (Nature Communications) Rare patterns of dorsal puncture in Pterostichus oblongopunctatus (Coleoptera:ContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 27, 2018”

Featured Image: Skull of Sellamynodon zimborensis (holotype, UBB MPS 15795), a Late Eocene-Early Oligocene amynodontid from Dobârca (Romania). From Tissier et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): The Cambrian–Ordovician succession at Lanna, Sweden: stratigraphy and depositional environments (Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences) Neogene integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China (Science China Earth Sciences) Grotta RomanelliContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 20, 2018”

Featured Image: Parababinskaia makarkini sp. n., holotype male. From Hu et al. (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Diel hysteresis between soil respiration and soil temperature in a biological soil crust covered desert ecosystem (PLOS ONE) Climate variability and cultural eutrophication at Walden Pond (Massachusetts, USA) during the last 1800 years (PLOS ONE) Multiple episodes ofContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 13, 2018”

Featured Image: webpic Images used to compare data collection methods. Specimens were collected from locality number TT92-3 (“Dori’s Tuff”). From Chang (2018). Papers (All Open Access): Combined morphological and phylogenomic re-examination of malawimonads, a critical taxon for inferring the evolutionary history of eukaryotes (RSOS) Distribution modelling of pre-Columbian California grasslands with soil phytoliths: New insights for prehistoric grasslandContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: April 6, 2018”

Featured Image: Isisfordia duncani, QM F36211 (holotype), an articulated and near complete skeleton in dorsal aspect. From Syme and Salisbury (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): A lake classification concept for a more accurate global estimate of the dissolved inorganic carbon export from terrestrial ecosystems to inland waters (The Science of Nature) Fossil whale barnacles from the lower PleistoceneContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 30, 2018”

Featured Image: From Schlager et al (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Retrodeformation of fossil specimens based on 3D bilateral semi-landmarks: Implementation in the R package “Morpho” (PLOS ONE) Experimental analysis of soft‐tissue fossilization: opening the black box (Palaeontology The fossilized birth-death model for the analysis of stratigraphic range data under different speciation modes) TheContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 23, 2018”

Featured Image: Tethydraco regalis FSAC-OB 199 ulna. From Longrich et al (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Atlantic deep water circulation during the last interglacial (Scientific Reports) Wangshangkia, a new Devonian ostracod genus from Dushan of Guizhou, South China (Journal of Micropalaeontology) Ostracods (Crustacea) as shelf to basin indicators: evidence from Late Devonian Yangdi and Nandong sectionsContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 16, 2018”

Featured Image: Artist’s reconstruction of the Permian reptile Captorhinus with an autotomous tail (inset showing anterior caudal vertebrae with fracture planes). Reconstruction by Danielle Dufault. From LeBlanc et al (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete and its evolutionary history—an integrative taxonomy approach (PeerJ) Development and evolution of tooth renewal in neoselachianContinueContinue reading “Fossil Friday Roundup: March 9, 2018”