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Fossil Friday Roundup: August 10, 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
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inFossil Friday Roundup: June 8, 2018
Featured Image: Xanthopimpla messelensis, from Spasojevic et al. 2018. Papers (All Open Access): How many landmarks are enough to characterize shape and size variation? (PLOS ONE) How does it feel? The affective domain and undergraduate student
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inFossil Friday Roundup: May 11, 2018
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
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inFossil Friday Roundup: May 4, 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:
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inFossil Friday Roundup: April 27, 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
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inFossil Friday Roundup: March 30, 2018
0000-0002-8715-2896 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
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inFossil Friday Roundup: March 16, 2018
0000-0002-8715-2896 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
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inFossil Friday Roundup: February 23, 2018
0000-0002-8715-2896 Featured Image: Leaves constituting the litter are of Eretmophyllum (Ginkgoales), a common plant macroremain as cuticles in the Spanish amber-bearing strata. Body color of the collembolans is conjectural but based on the coloration seen in
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inFossil Friday Roundup: June 16, 2017
0000-0002-8715-2896 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:
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