"A systematic horizon scanning was undertaken to identify the up-to-date perspectives on paleontological research. A summarized evaluation (applicability and acceptability) was also provided to identify the challenges and opportunities of paleontological techniques. Present-day advances in molecula...
"Data compilations expand the scope of research; however, data citation practice lags behind advances in data use. It remains uncommon for data users to credit data producers in professionally meaningful ways. In paleontology, databases like the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) enable assessment of pat...
"Birds are among the best-studied animal groups, but their prehistoric diversity is poorly known due to low fossilization potential. Hence, while many human-driven bird extinctions (i.e., extinctions caused directly by human activities such as hunting, as well as indirectly through human-associated...
"Effective visitor management requires reaching visitors with fitting information at the right time through the channels they already use. To identify effective communication channels, 410 recreationists were interviewed in north-east Bavaria to determine how they plan and navigate their outdoor ac...
"Rinaldo Zardini (1902–1988) was an Italian palaeontologist and botanist born in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Having a background as a professional photographer, he was able to illustrate his collection of mostly tiny fossils in high definition. For his significant contributions to the field of palaeontology...
"Articulated natural assemblages contain direct evidence of the element numbers, morphologies, positions and structures for reconstructing the feeding apparatuses of conodont animals, but these kind of materials are very rare in fossil records. Here we report ten new conodont natural assemblages fr...
"The congruence between rock quantity and biodiversity through the Phanerozoic has long been acknowledged. Rock record bias and common cause are the most discussed hypotheses: the former emphasizes that the changes in diversity through time fully reflect rock availability; the latter posits that th...
"The platycerate gastropods Orthonychia yutaroi Ebbestad, sp nov. (Ordovician, Boda Limestone, Sweden), O. enorme (Silurian, Sweden, Gotland), O. parva (Pennsylvanian, Finis Shale Member, USA), and Orthonychia sp. (Mississippian, Imo Formation, USA) are studied including their protoconch morphology...
"Recently, on the basis of a single specimen (ROMIP 64897) from the Royal Ontario Museum (Canada), Whalen and Landman described the new coleoid taxon with a fairly completely preserved frontal part as Syllipsimopodi bideni. The specimen, recovered from the Bear Gulch Limestone, Heath Formation in F...