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
A new method for enamel amino acid racemization dating: a closed system approach
Marc R Dickinson, Adrian M Lister, Kirsty E H Penkman

bioRxiv 453340; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/453340 New Results
Absence of general rules governing molluscan body-size response to climatic fluctuation during Cenozoic
Debarati Chattopadhyay, Devapriya Chattopadhyay

bioRxiv 438002; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/438002 Contradictory Results
The ecomorphology of southern African rodent incisors: Potential applications to the hominin fossil record
Oliver Paine, Jennifer N. Leichliter, Nico Avenant, Daryl Codron, Austin Lawrence, Matt Sponheimer

bioRxiv 429365; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/429365 New Results
Illustrating phylogenetic placement of fossils using RoguePlots: An example from ichneumonid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) and an extensive morphological matrix
Seraina Klopfstein, Tamara Spasojevic

bioRxiv 425090; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/425090 New Results
The R package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data
Adam T. Kocsis, Carl J. Reddin, John Alroy, Wolfgang Kiessling

bioRxiv 423780; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/423780 Confirmatory 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

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