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Fossil record

Fossil eggshell diversity of the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah

Joshua Hedge, Ryan T. Tucker, Peter J. Makovicky, Lindsay E. Zanno

published 26 Feb 2025

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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico

Kleyton M. Cantalice, Hugo E. Salgado-Garrido, Erick Sosa-Rodríguez, Kay Vilchis-Zapata, Gerardo González-Barba, on behalf of the Underwater Archaeological Atlas project

published 06 Feb 2025

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Decay experiments and microbial community analysis of water lily leaf biofilms: Sediment effects on leaf preservation potential

Brianne Palmer, Sabina Karačić, Shook Ling Low, Kathrin Janssen, Harald Färber, Moritz Liesegang, Gabriele Bierbaum, Carole T. Gee

published 18 Dec 2024

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Body-size evolution in gastropods across the Plio-Pleistocene extinction in the western Atlantic

Brendan M. Anderson, Elizabeth Petsios, Jessica Behn, Amy Betz, Warren D. Allmon, Bruce S. Lieberman, Jonathan R. Hendricks

published 13 Dec 2024

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Exploring the preservation of a parasitic trace in decapod crustaceans using finite elements analysis

Nathan L. Wright, Adiël A. Klompmaker, Elizabeth Petsios

published 16 Apr 2024

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Natural external plastron mold of the Triassic turtle Proterochersis: An unusual mode of preservation

Tomasz Szczygielski, Lorenzo Marchetti, Dawid Dróżdż

published 29 Mar 2024

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Quantifying the effects of exceptional fossil preservation on the global availability of phylogenetic data in deep time

C. Henrik Woolley, David J. Bottjer, Frank A. Corsetti, Nathan D. Smith

published 14 Feb 2024

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Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards

Sara J. ElShafie

published 05 Jan 2024

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Quaternary rodents of South Africa: A companion guide for cranio-dental identification

Pierre Linchamps, D. Margaret Avery, Raphaël Cornette, Christiane Denys, Thalassa Matthews, Emmanuelle Stoetzel

published 28 Nov 2023

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A 104-Ma record of deep-sea Atelostomata (Holasterioda, Spatangoida, irregular echinoids) – a story of persistence, food availability and a big bang

Frank Wiese, Nils Schlüter, Jessica Zirkel, Jens O. Herrle, Oliver Friedrich

published 09 Aug 2023

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New species of Kuqaia from the Lower Jurassic of Sweden indicates a possible water flea (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) affinity

Jungang Peng, Sam M. Slater, Stephen McLoughlin, Vivi Vajda

published 07 Jun 2023

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Experimental dissolution of fossil bone under variable pH conditions

Colleen A. Sullivan, Sarah W. Keenan

published 13 Oct 2022

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Detection of porphyrins in vertebrate fossils from the Messel and implications for organic preservation in the fossil record

Sandra Siljeström, Anna Neubeck, Andrew Steele

published 29 Jun 2022

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