Team Publications

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

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01FEB 2020
Team Publications
Tytherington fissure 2
“The Late Triassic and Early Jurassic fissures around Bristol and South Wales are famous as sources of excellent fossils of early mammals, dinosaurs, sphenodontians, and other tetrapods. However, the ways in which these fissures filled with sediment have not often been documented. Moreover, systematic faunal sampling up a working face exposure has rarely been attempted for the UK Triassic fissures. Here we show in […]“The Late Triassic and Early Jurassic fissures around Bristol and South Wales are famous as sources of excellent fossils of early mammals, dinosaurs, sphenodontians, and other tetrapods. However, the ways in which these fissures filled with sediment have not often been documented. Moreover, systematic faunal sampling up a working face exposure has rarely been attempted for the UK Triassic fissures. Here we show in […]
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01FEB 2020
Team Publications
The Muensterelloidea
“The Muensterelloidea is a superfamily of teudopseid octobrachians with a posteriorly patella-shaped gladius. A morphometric comparison based on 148 muensterelloid gladii has yielded five new species accommodated in three new genera: Engeseriteuthis arcuatus gen. et sp. nov., Muensterella jillae sp. nov., Muensterella spinosa sp. nov., Tyrionella fauseri gen. et sp. nov. and Muensterellina johnjagti gen. et sp. nov. Cretaceous taxa ‘Tusoteuthis’ cobbani and ‘Muensterella’ tonii are re-combined and placed […]“The Muensterelloidea is a superfamily of teudopseid octobrachians with a posteriorly patella-shaped gladius. A morphometric comparison based on 148 muensterelloid gladii has yielded five new species accommodated in three new genera: Engeseriteuthis arcuatus gen. et sp. nov., Muensterella jillae sp. nov., Muensterella spinosa sp. nov., Tyrionella fauseri gen. et sp. nov. and Muensterellina johnjagti gen. et sp. nov. Cretaceous taxa ‘Tusoteuthis’ cobbani and ‘Muensterella’ tonii are re-combined and placed […]
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27JAN 2020
Team Publications
Diet of pterosaurs
“Direct evidence of successful or failed predation is rare in the fossil record but essential for reconstructing extinct food webs. Here, we report the first evidence of a failed predation attempt by a pterosaur on a soft-bodied coleoid cephalopod. A perfectly preserved, fully grown soft-tissue specimen of the octobrachian coleoid Plesioteuthis subovata is associated with a tooth […]
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27JAN 2020
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Modeling of trilobite growth and segmentation
“Generative growth models have been the basis for numerous studies of morphological diversity and evolution. Most work has focused on modeling accretionary growth systems, with much less attention to discrete growth systems. Generative growth models for molting organisms, such as arthropods, have remained particularly elusive. However, our understanding of post-embryonic growth in trilobite species is […]“Generative growth models have been the basis for numerous studies of morphological diversity and evolution. Most work has focused on modeling accretionary growth systems, with much less attention to discrete growth systems. Generative growth models for molting organisms, such as arthropods, have remained particularly elusive. However, our understanding of post-embryonic growth in trilobite species is […]
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17JAN 2020
Team Publications
Location data for cheilostome bryozoan species
“In this study datasets of cheilostom bryozoans were compared and combined to reconstruct latitudinal species richness curve illustrating that these bryozoans display a bimodal global latitudinal diversity gradient with peaks in temperate zones.”We use natural language processing (NLP) to retrieve location data for cheilostome bryozoan species (text-mined occurrences [TMO]) in an automated procedure. We compare […]“In this study datasets of cheilostom bryozoans were compared and combined to reconstruct latitudinal species richness curve illustrating that these bryozoans display a bimodal global latitudinal diversity gradient with peaks in temperate zones.”We use natural language processing (NLP) to retrieve location data for cheilostome bryozoan species (text-mined occurrences [TMO]) in an automated procedure. We compare […]
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13JAN 2020
Team Publications
Species–area relationships
“Species–area relationships (SARs) are fundamental scaling laws in ecology although their shape is still disputed. At larger areas, power laws best represent SARs. Yet, it remains unclear whether SARs follow other shapes at finer spatial grains in continuous vegetation. We asked which function describes SARs best at small grains and explored how sampling methodology or […]
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