Project Publications
If possible, we publish 📗 open access; if not, 📙 you might have access via your institution.
2026
📗 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 2026
2025
📗 “Reefal regions were biodiversity hotspots throughout the Phanerozoic” RA Close, RBJ Benson, W Kiessling, EE Saupe / Science Advances 11/2026
📗 “Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project” JA Smith, EM Dowding et al., ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling / Paleobiology 09/2025
📙 “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 07/2025
📗 “Occupancy history influences extinction risk of fossil marine microplankton groups” IA Smith, ÁT Kocsis, W Kiessling / Biogeosciences 07/2025
📗 “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 04/2025
📗 “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 02/2025
2024
📗 “Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time“ W Kiessling, CJ Reddin, EM Dowding, D Dimitrijevic, NB Raja, ÁT Kocsis* / Paleobiology 12/2024
📗 “Fossil constraints on the origin and evolution of Platyhelminthes are surprisingly concordant with modern molecular phylogenies” K de Baets / Zoologica (Curitiba) 11/2024
📗 “Reef refugia in the aftermath of past episodes of global warming” D Dimitrijevic, N Santodomingo, W Kiessling / Coral Reefs 06/2024
2023
📗 “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 12/2023
📗 “Revisiting the Phanerozoic rock-diversity relationship“ L Na, Li Q, Krause M, Zhu M, Kiessling W / Geological Magazine 12/2023
📗 “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 10/2023
2022
📗 “What is Conservation Paleobiology? Tracking 20 years of research and development” EM Dillon et al, JA Smith, NB Raja*, D Dimitrijević*, CM Grether*, IE Smith* (*master and PhD students from the FAU included) / Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 12/2022 (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 11/2022
* PaleoSynthesis team member // in bold: PostDocs and PI’s
2026
“Asymmetric leading vs. trailing edge shifts since the Last Glacial Maximum underpin the modern bimodal latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic foraminifera” TM Khan, MC Rillo, L Jonkers, I Smith, ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling bioRxiv 12/2025
“Unique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises” PS Nätscher, K De Baets, W Kiessling bioRxiv 07/2025
2025
📗 “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 11,12/2025
📗 “Census-based estimates of Mediterranean Olicocene-Miocene reef carbonate production” W Kiessling, D Dimitrijevic, NB Raja, K Frühbeißer, A Vescogni, FR Bosselini / Facies 12/2025
📗 “Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change” GH Mathes, CJ Reddin, W Kiessling, GT Antell, EE Saupe, MJ Steinbauer / Global Ecology and Biogeography 11/2025
📙 “Devonian palaeogeography and environmental change: an incomplete chronicle” TH Torsvik, LRM Cocks, M Domeier, CM Marcilly, EM Dowding / ZDGG 06/2025
📗 “Taxonomic and ecologic transitions in Triassic marine bivalve communities” X Miao, J Tong, Y Huang, S Zhang, P Li, Y Cao, D Chu, W Kiessling / PeerJ 05/2025
📗 “Introduction: Fifty years of Paleobiology” M Patzowsky, W Kiessling / Paleobiology 04/2025
📗 “Minor Coral Diversity Loss but Long-Lasting Coral Reef Crises in the Early Paleogene Hothouse” FR Bosellini, A Benedetti, W Kiessling / Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 03/2025
📗📙 “The Cretaceous world: plate tectonics, palaeogeography and palaeoclimate” CR Scotese, C Vérard, L Burgener, RP Elling, AT Kocsis* / Geological Society London SP 03/2025
📗 “The effect of climate legacies on extinction dynamics: A systematic review” GH Mathes, C Pimiento, W Kiessling, J-C Svenning, M Steinbauer / Cambridge Prisms 03/2025
📗 “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring reef rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system” A Godbold, CC James, W Kiessling, N Hohmann, E Jarochowska A Corsetti, DJ Bottjer/ Proceedings B 02/2025
“Temperature Effects on the Distribution of Aragonitic and Calcite-Secreting Epifaunal Bivalves” K Eichenseer, U Balthasar, CW Smart, W Kiessling / Journal of Biogeography 02/2025
2024
📗 “Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)” A Ivanov, B Seuss*/ PalZ 04/2024
📙 “Palaeontology from Australasia and beyond: Abstracts from Palaeo Down Under 3” Perth, Western Australia, July 2023″ Martin et al., EM Dowding / Alcheringa 04/2024
📙 “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 03/2024
2023
📗 “On Paleozoic platycerate gastropods” A Nützel, JO Ebbestad, B Seuss*, A Munnecke, RH Mapes, AG Cook / Zitteliana 12/2023
📗 “Survivorship dynamics of the flora of Devonian Angarida” EM Dowding, NI Akulov, IM Mashchuck / ProceedingsB 11/2023
📙 “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 11/2023
📗 “Oversimplification risks too much: a response to ‘How predictable are mass extinction events?” CJ Reddin, M Aberhan, D Dimitrijevic, EM Dowding, ÁT Kocsis*, G Matthes, PS Nätscher, ME Patzowsky, W Kiessling / Royal Society Open Science 08/2023
📗 “Climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species” D Hodapp et al., ÁT Kocsis* / Global Change Biology 06/2023
📗 “Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates” L Na, ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling / Paleobiology 05/2023
📙 “Quantitative methods for the analysis of comparative geological data: Large igneous province barcoding and supercontinent reconstruction” B Michaux, EM Dowding, MC Ebach / Precambrian Research 02/2023
📗 “Improving the relevance of paleontology to climate change policy“ W Kiessling, JA Smith, NB Raja / PNAS 02/2023
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 12/2022
📗 “Hotspots of Cenozoic Tropical Marine Biodiversity” Yasuhara et al., ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling / Oceanography and Marine Biology An Annual Review 12/2022
📗 “Global warming generates predictable extinctions of warm- and cold-water marine benthic invertebrates via thermal habitat loss” CJ Reddin, M Aberhahn, NB Raja, ÁT Kocsis* / Global Change Biology 08/2022
📗 “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 08/2022
📙 “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 07/2022
📗 “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 05/2022
“Radial porosity profiles: a new bone histological method for comparative developmental analysis of diametric limb bone growth” E Prondvai, ÁT Kocsis*, A Abourachid, D Adriaens, P Godefroit, D-Y Hu, RJ Butler / Royal Society Open Science 05/2022
📗 “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 03,04/2022
📗 “Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization” EM Dowding, MC Ebach, EV Mavrodiev / Palaeontology 01,02/2022
2021
📗 “Not all biodiversity rich spots are climate refugia” ÁT Kocsis*, Q Zhao, MJ Costello, W Kiessling / EGU Biogeosciences 12/2021
📗 “Increase in marine provinciality over the last 250 million years governed more by climate change than plate tectonics” ÁT Kocsis*, CJ Reddin, DR Scotese, PJ Valdes, W Kiessling Proceedings B /08/2021
📗 “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 05/2021
📙 “Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic” ÁT Kocsis*, CR Scotese / Earth-Science Reviews (02/2021)
📗 “Victims of ancient hyperthermal events herald the fates of marine clades and traits under global warming” CJ Reddin, ÁT Kocsis*, M Aberhahn, W Kiessling / Global Change Biology (02/2021)
📗 “Changes in calcareous nannoplankton assemblages around the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition in the Hungarian Palaeogene Basin (Central Paratethys)” A Nyerges, ÁT Kocsis*, J Pálfy / Historical Biology 01/2021
2020
📙 “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 10/2020
📗 “Biodiversity patterns across the Late Paleozoic Ice Age” B Seuss*, VJ Roden, AT Kocsis*/ Palaeontologie Electronica 07/2020
“Carnian–Norian (Late Triassic) climate change: Evidence from conodont oxygen isotope thermometry with implications for reef development and Wrangellian tectonics” YD Sun, MJ Orchard, ÁT Kocsis*, MM Joachimski / Earth and Planetary Science Letters 03/2020
📙 “Marine clade sensitivities to climate change conform across timescales” CJ Reddin, PS Nätscher, ÁT Kocsis*, HO Pörtner, W Kiessling / Nature Climate Change 02/2020
📗 “R interface for the GPlates Web Service and the GPlates Application” AT Kocsis, NB Raja, S Williams, EM Dowding / zenodo 11/2025
📗 “icosa: global triangular and penta-hexagonal grids based on tessellated icosahedra, R package” ÁT Kocsis* 08/2025
📗 “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 01/2023
📗 “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 06/2022
📗 “Handout to the R package divDyn v0.8.2 for diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data” 03/2021
📗 “Introduction to the ‘chronosphere’ R package” ÁT Kocsis*, NB Raja 06/2020
📗 “Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies” H Arenas-Castro et al. Royal Society B 03/2024
📗 “The return of Fossils Removed Under Colonial Rule” PP Stewens, NB Raja, EM Dunne Santander Art and Culture Review 12/2022
📙 “Publication pressure threatens the integrity of palaeontological research” NB Raja*, EM Dunne; The Geological Curator – Special Ethics Edition 12/2022
📙 “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 11/2022
📙 “The moral and legal imperative to return illegally exported fossils”, JC Cisneros, AM Ghilardi, NB Raja*, PP Stewens; Nature Ecology & Evolution 11/2022
📗 “Ethics, law, and politics in palaeontological research: The case of Myanmar amber” EM Dunne, NB Raja*, P Stewens, ZMM Thein; Nature Communications Biology 09/2022
📗 “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 03/2022
📙 “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 12/2021
📗 “Minority Language Speakers in Palaeontology” NB Raja*, EM Dunne; OSF Preprints 2021
PI’s *N.B. Raja-Schoob and Emma Dunne