Team Publications

Publications by the members of the Paleosynthesis Team and Scientific Advisory Board

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07JAN 2021
Team Publications
Endocranial shape change in alligators and ostriches
“Birds and crocodiles show radically different patterns of brain development, and itis of interest to compare these to determine the pattern of brain growth expected in dinosaurs. Here we provide atlases of 3D brain (endocast) reconstructions for Alligator mississippiensis (alligator) and Struthio camelus (ostrich) through ontogeny, prepared as digital restorations from CT scans of stained […]“Birds and crocodiles show radically different patterns of brain development, and itis of interest to compare these to determine the pattern of brain growth expected in dinosaurs. Here we provide atlases of 3D brain (endocast) reconstructions for Alligator mississippiensis (alligator) and Struthio camelus (ostrich) through ontogeny, prepared as digital restorations from CT scans of stained […]
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30DEC 2020
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Fish and crab coprolites
“Rhaetian bone beds in south-west Englandwere investigated regarding coprolite components. The first coprolites from crustaceans from the British Rhaetian are reported from near Bristol. Five coprolite morphotypes from fish were also found. CT scanning helped to reveal the nature, packing and identity of inclusions within the coprolites. Curious of whats in? “Coprolites from the Rhaetian bone beds in […]“Rhaetian bone beds in south-west Englandwere investigated regarding coprolite components. The first coprolites from crustaceans from the British Rhaetian are reported from near Bristol. Five coprolite morphotypes from fish were also found. CT scanning helped to reveal the nature, packing and identity of inclusions within the coprolites. Curious of whats in? “Coprolites from the Rhaetian bone beds in […]
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29DEC 2020
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First record of non-mineralized cephalopod jaws and arm hooks
“Due to the lower fossilization potential of chitin, non-mineralized cephalopod jaws and arm hooks are much more rarely preserved as fossils than the calcitic lower jaws of ammonites or the calcitized jaw apparatuses of nautilids. Here, we report such non-mineralized fossil jaws and arm hooks from pelagic marly limestones of continental Greece. Two of the […]
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21DEC 2020
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Failed prey or peculiar necrolysis?
“Ammonoid soft parts have been rarely described. Here, we document the soft parts of a perisphinctid ammonite from the early Tithonian of Wintershof near Eichstätt (Germany). This exceptional preservation was enabled by the special depositional conditions in the marine basins of the Solnhofen Archipelago. Here, we document this find and attempt to homologize its parts […]
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17DEC 2020
Team Publications
The effects of geographic range size and abundance
“Geographic range size and abundance are important determinants of extinction risk in fossil and extant taxa. However, the relationship between these variables and extinction risk has not been tested extensively during evolutionarily “quiescent” times of low extinction and speciation in the fossil record. Here we examine the influence of geographic range size and abundance on […]
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16DEC 2020
Team Publications
Microplastic in the environment
“A big amount of manufactured plastic materials ends up in the oceans, floats on the sea surface, drifts in the water column, or sinks to the seafloor from the shorelines to the deep-sea. Consequently, microplastics are widely distributed in all the oceans, from the water surface to the sediments in the deep-sea, from the beaches […]
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