Project Publications
- accepted (preprint available): “Fossils for Future: the billion-dollar case for palaeontology’s digital infrastructure” Dowding EM, EM Dunne, KS Collins, K Cryer, K De Baets, D Dimitrijević, SM Edie, S Finnegan, W Kiessling, K Lintulaakso, LH Liow, H Little, L Na, SE Peters, J Renaudie, EE Saupe, B Seuss(*), JA Sessa, JA Smith, MD Uhen, JW Williams, ÁT Kocsis(*) / Nature ecology & evolution
- “Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time“ W Kiessling, CJ Reddin, EM Dowding, D Dimitrijevic, NB Raja, ÁT Kocsis(*) / Paleobiology 2025
- “Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales“ D Fastovich, SR Meyers, EE Saupe, JW Williams, M Dornelas, EM Dowding, S Finnegan, H-HM Huang, L Jonkers, W Kiessling, ÁT Kocsis(*), Q Li, LH Liow, L Na, AM Penny, K Pippenger, J Renaudie, MC Rillo, JA Smith, MJ Steinbauer, M Sugawara, A Tomašových, M Yasuhara, PM Hull / Science 2025
- “Data equity in paleobiology: progress, challenges, and future outlook“ EM Dunne, D Chattopadhyay, CD Dean, EM Dillon, EM Dowding, PL Godoy, JA Smith, NB Raja / Paleobiology 2025
- “A conceptual framework for measuring ecological novelty“ TJ Staples, J Blois, KL Cramer, ET Cunningham, M Dornelas, SG Haberle, T Heger, W Kiessling, A Magurran, A O’Dea, AM Penny, VC Radeloff, JA Smith, W Thuiller, JW Williams, JM Pandolfi / Global Ecology and Biogeography 2025
- “Fossil constraints on the origin and evolution of Platyhelminthes are surprisingly concordant with modern molecular phylogenies” K de Baets / Zoologica (Curitiba) 2024
- “Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future” JA Smith, NB Raja, T Clements, D Dimitrijevic, EM Dowding, EM Dunne, BM Gee, PL Godoy, EM Lombardi, LPA Mulvey, PS Nätscher, CJ Reddin, B Shirley, RCM Warnock, ÁT Kocsis(*)/ Paleobiology 2023
- “Revisiting the Phanerozoic rock-diversity relationship“ L Na, Li Q, Krause M, Zhu M, Kiessling W / Geological Magazine 2023
- “BioDeepTime: a database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages” JA Smith, J Gill, M Rillo, Á Kocsis(*), M Dornelas, D Fastovich, H-H M Huang, L Jonkers, S Meyers, N Lin, A M Penny, K Pippenger, J Renaudie, E Saupe, M Steinbauer, M Sugawara, A Tomasovych, JW Williams, M Yasuhara, S Finnegan, P Hull / Global Ecology and Biogeography 2023
- “What is Conservation Paleobiology? Tracking 20 years of research and development” EM Dillon JQ Pier, JA Smith, NB Raja*, D Dimitrijević*, EL Austin, JD Cybulski, J De Entrambasaguas, SR Durham, CM Grether*, H Sekhar Haldar, K Kocákova, C-H Lin, I Mazzani, AM Mychajliw, AL Ollendorf, C Pimiento, OR Regalado Fernández, IE Smith*, GP Dietl (*3 master’s and 2 PhD students from the FAU included) / Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2022 (invited contribution (extended to JAS) for Research Topic: Integrating Conservation Biology and Paleobiology to Manage Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World)
- “fossilbrush: An R package for automated detection and resolution of anomalies in palaeontological occurrence data” (publication from the Open Research Challenge) JT Flannery-Sutherland, NB Raja, A Kocsis(*), W Kiessling / Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2022
(*): PaleoSynthesis team member // in bold: PostDocs and PI’s
- “Microstructural and geochemical evidence offers a solution to the cephalopod cameral deposits riddle” A Pohle, R Hoffmann, A Nützel, B Seuss, M Aubrechtová, B Kröger, K Stevens, A Immenhauser/ Palaeontology 2025
- “Devonian palaeobiogeography and environmental change: an incomplete chronicle” TH Torsvik, LRM Cocks, M Domeier, CM Marcilly, EM Dowding / ZDGG 2025
- “Census-based estimates of Mediterranean Olicocene-Miocene reef carbonate production” W Kiessling, D Dimitrijevic, NB Raja, K Frühbeißer, A Vescogni, FR Bosselini / Facies 2024
- “Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)” A Ivanov, B Seuss(*)/ PalZ 2024
- “Molecular technology in paleontology and paleobiology: Applications and limitations” AA Abdelhady, B Seuss(*), S Jain, D Fathy, M Sami, A Ali, A Elsheikh, MS Ahmed, AMT Elewa, AM Hussain / Quaternary International 2024
- “Paleobiogeography of Lower-Middle Devonian Conulariids from southwest Gondwana” VR Ribeiro, EM Dowding, FN Sousa, FA Carbonaro, RP Ghilardi / Journal of South American Earth Sciences 2023
- “Oversimplification risks too much: a response to ‘How predictable are mass extinction events?” CJ Reddin, M Aberhan, D Dimitrijevic, EM Dowding, AT Kocsis(*), G Matthes, PS Nätscher, ME Patzowsky, W Kiessling / Royal Society Open Science 2023
- “Palaeontology from Australasia and beyond: Abstracts from Palaeo Down Under 3” S Martin et al, EM Dowding / Alcheringa 2023
- “Quantitative methods for the analysis of comparative geological data: Large igneous province barcoding and supercontinent reconstruction” B Michaux, EM Dowding, MC Ebach / Precambrian Research 2023
- “On Paleozoic platycerate gastropods” A Nützel, JO Ebbestad, B Seuss(*), A Munnecke, RH Mapes, AG Cook / Zitteliana 2023
- “Survivorship dynamics of the flora of Devonian Angarida” EM Dowding, NI Akulov, IM Mashchuck / ProceedingsB 2023
- “Improving the relevance of paleontology to climate change policy“ W Kiessling, JA Smith, NB Raja / PNAS 2023
- “Taxonomy and diversity of slit-band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA” B Karapunar, A Nützel, B Seuss(*), RH Mapes / Papers in Palaeontology 2022
- “Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization” EM Dowding, MC Ebach, EV Mavrodiev / Palaeontology 2022
- “The Impact of Field Courses on Undergraduate Knowledge, Affect, Behavior, and Skills: A Scoping Review“, XA Shinbrot, K Treibergs, LM Arcila Hernández, D Esparza, K Ghezzi-Kopel, M Goebel, OJ Graham, AB Heim, JA Smith, MK Smith / BioScience 2022
- “Assessing the utility of death assemblages as reference conditions in a common benthic index (M-AMBI) with simulations“, JA Smith, MJ Pruden, JC Handley, SR Durham, GP Dietl / Geological Society of London Special Publication: Conservation paleobiology of marine ecosystems: concepts and applications 2022
- “Virgilian (Late Pennsylvanian) coiled nautiloids from the Finis Shale Member of the Graham Formation in Texas, southern Midcontinent North America” S Niko, B Seuss(*), RH Mapes / Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum 2022
- “Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Graham Formation, Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) at Lost Creek Lake, Texas, USA” A Ernst, AL Claußen, B Seuss(*), PN Wyse Jackson / Palaeontologia Electronica 2022
- “Palaeozoic stromatoporoids and chaetetids analysed using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD); implications for original mineralogy and microstructure” U Balthasar, S Kershaw, A-C Da Silva, B Seuss(*), M Cusack, K Eichenseer, P Chung / Facies 2021
- “Paleoenvironmental significance of the monospecific biostromes in the Campanian-Maastrichtian Duwi Formation (Eastern Desert, Egypt)” AA Abdelhady, B Seuss(*), FT Fürsich, A Ali, KHM Abdel-Raheem, RSA Mohamed / Sedimentary Geology 2020
- “Biodiversity patterns across the Late Paleozoic Ice Age” B Seuss(*), VJ Roden, AT Kocsis(*)/ Palaeontologie Electronica 2020
- “BioDeepTime: database and compilation code” JA Smith, MC Rillo, ÁT Kocsis(*), M Dornelas, D Fastovich, H-H M Huang, L Jonkers, W Kiessling, Q Li, L-H Liow, M Margulis-Ohnuma, S Meyers, L Na, AM Penny, K Pippenger, J Renaudie, EE Saupe, M Steinbauer, M Sugawara, A Tomasovych, JW Williams, M Yasuhara; S Finnegan, P Hull / zenodo, 2023
- “fossilbrush: An R package for automated detection and resolution of anomalies in palaeontological occurrence data” JT Flannery-Sutherland, NB Raja, A Kocsis(*), W Kiessling / Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2022
- “R interface for the GPlates Web Service and the GPlates Application” AT Kocsis, NB Raja, S Williams, EM Dowding / CRAN, 2021
- “Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies” H Arenas-Castro et al. Royal Society 2023
- “The return of Fossils Removed Under Colonial Rule” PP Stewens, NB Raja, EM Dunne Santander Art and Culture Review, 2022
- “Fossil Trafficking, Fraud, and Fakery” NB Raja*, EM Dunne; Art Crime in Context, Part of the Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market book series 2022/6
- “The moral and legal imperative to return illegally exported fossils”, JC Cisneros, AM Ghilardi, NB Raja*, PP Stewens; Nature Ecology & Evolution 2022
- “Ethics, law, and politics in palaeontological research: The case of Myanmar amber” EM Dunne, NB Raja*, P Stewens, ZMM Thein; Nature Communications Biology 2022
- “Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil” JC Cisneros, NB Raja*, AM Ghilardi, EM Dunne, FL Pinheiro, OR Regalado Fernández, MAF Sales, RA Rodríguez-de la Rosa, AY Miranda-Martínez, S González-Mora, RAM Bantim, FJ de Lima, JD Paro; Royal Society Open Science 2022
- “Publication pressure threatens the integrity of palaeontological research” NB Raja*, EM Dunne; The Geological Curator – Special Ethics Edition 2022
- “Colonial history and global economicsdistort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity“ NB Raja*, EM Dunne, A Matiwane, TM Khan, PS Nätscher, AM Ghilardi, D Chattopadhyay; Nature Ecology & Evolution 2022
- “Minority Language Speakers in Palaeontology” NB Raja*, EM Dunne; OSF Preprints 2021
PI’s *N.B. Raja-Schoob and Emma Dunne