Paleontology

Surface sediment samples from early age of seafloor exploration can provide a late 19th century baseline of the marine environment
Marina Costa Rillo, Michal Kucera, Thomas H. G. Ezard, Giles Miller

bioRxiv 419770; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/419770 New Results
Palaeobiological inferences based on long bone epiphyseal and diaphyseal structure - the forelimb of xenarthrans (Mammalia)
Eli Amson, John A. Nyakatura

bioRxiv 318121; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/318121 New Results
New cheloniellid arthropod with large raptorial appendages from the Silurian of Wisconsin, USA
Andrew James Wendruff, Loren Babcock, Donald Mikulic, Joanne Kluessendorf

bioRxiv 407379; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/407379 New Results
Life Inside A Dinosaur Bone: A Thriving Microbiome
Evan Thomas Saitta, Renxing Liang, Chui Y Lau, Caleb M Brown, Nicholas R Longrich, Thomas G Kaye, Ben J Novak, Steven Salzberg, Paul Donohoe, Marc Dickinson, Jakob Vinther, Ian D Bull, Richard A Brooker, Peter Martin, Geoffrey D Abbott, Timothy DJ Knowles, Kirsty Penkman, Tullis C Onstott

bioRxiv 400176; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/400176 New Results
Reversing Time Averaging and Reconstructing Extinction Rates with Approaches from Image Processing
Niklas Hohmann

bioRxiv 408864; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/408864 New Results
The multi-peak adaptive landscape of crocodylomorph body size evolution
Pedro L Godoy, Roger B J Benson, Mario Bronzati, Richard J Butler

bioRxiv 405621; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/405621 New Results
A Reassessment of the Taxonomic Position of Mesosaurs Based on Two Data Matrices
Michel Laurin, Graciela Pineiro

bioRxiv 391813; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/391813 Contradictory Results
Kinematics of wings from Caudipteryx to modern birds
Jing-Shan Zhao, Yaser Saffar Talori, Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor, Yaser Saffar Talori, Jing-Shan Zhao, Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor

bioRxiv 393686; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/393686 New Results
Modern botanical analogue of endangered Yak (Bos mutus) dung from India: Plausible linkage with living and extinct megaherbivores
Sadhan Basumatary, Hukam Singh, H. Gregory McDonald, Swati Tripathi, Anil Kumar Pokharia

bioRxiv 388819; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/388819 New Results
Modelling predation and mortality rates from the fossil record of gastropods
Graham Budd, Richard P Mann

bioRxiv 373399; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/373399 New Results

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