New papers on Fossils & deep time
3 new papers on fossils & deep time in the last 7 days, within Ecology & evolution. These are the 3 Pipette rates most worth reading, with the main result in the authors' own words.
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Staking out the frontiers: The limits of the metazoan shallow marine fossil record
Modeling historical sampling trajectories, we show that for most time intervals, future data accumulation is expected to be negligible, and geographic coverage is approaching saturation.
Peer-reviewed journalEarly catarrhine evolution in the light of semicircular canal and vestibule shape
These findings support that pliopithecoids are stem catarrhines more derived than Saadanius and imply that its tubular ectotympanic must have evolved independently from crown catarrhines, thus representing a remarkable instance of homoplasy.
Peer-reviewed journalUnique pattern of injuries in Olenoides serratus from the Burgess Shale elucidate moulting process in trilobites
Here we examine injuries in eleven specimens of Olenoides serratus from the Burgess Shale (Cambrian, Wuluian) and demonstrate an increased frequency of genal spine malformations compared to other trilobites.
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