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List of works by Jakob Vinther

3D Camouflage in an Ornithischian Dinosaur

scientific article

A Cambrian crown annelid reconciles phylogenomics and the fossil record

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

A Cambrian tommotiid preserving soft tissues reveals the metameric ancestry of lophophorates

scholarly article

A Cambrian-Ordovician Terrestrialization of Arachnids

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

A draft genome sequence of the elusive giant squid, Architeuthis dux

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

A giant stem-group chaetognath

scientific article published on 5 January 2024

A guide to the field of palaeo colour: Melanin and other pigments can fossilise: Reconstructing colour patterns from ancient organisms can give new insights to ecology and behaviour

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A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization

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A molecular palaeobiological hypothesis for the origin of aplacophoran molluscs and their derivation from chiton-like ancestors

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2012)

A molecular palaeobiological perspective on aculiferan evolution

article published in 2014

A new fireworm (Amphinomidae) from the Cretaceous of Lebanon identified from three-dimensionally preserved myoanatomy

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A placozoan affinity for Dickinsonia and the evolution of late Proterozoic metazoan feeding modes

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A preliminary study of iron isotope fractionation in marine invertebrates (chitons, Mollusca) in near-shore environments

scientific article published in 2014

A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian

scientific article (publication date: 26 March 2014)

Additional information on the primitive contour and wing feathering of paravian dinosaurs

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An Early Cambrian stem polychaete with pygidial cirri

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2011)

An Exceptionally Preserved Three-Dimensional Armored Dinosaur Reveals Insights into Coloration and Cretaceous Predator-Prey Dynamics

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Ancestral morphology of crown-group molluscs revealed by a new Ordovician stem aculiferan

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Animal Evolution: When Small Worms Cast Long Phylogenetic Shadows

scientific article published in August 2015

Author Correction: Increasing species sampling in chelicerate genomic-scale datasets provides support for monophyly of Acari and Arachnida

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Bilateral Jaw Elements in Amiskwia sagittiformis Bridge the Morphological Gap between Gnathiferans and Chaetognaths

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Biogeography of worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) driven by end-Cretaceous mass extinction

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Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Buoyancy mechanisms limit preservation of coleoid cephalopod soft tissues in Mesozoic Lagerstätten

scientific article published in 2016

Cambrian Sessile, Suspension Feeding Stem-Group Ctenophores and Evolution of the Comb Jelly Body Plan

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Cambrian stem-group annelids and a metameric origin of the annelid head

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Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules: Extant cephalopods are younger than previously realised and were under major selection to become agile, shell-less predators.

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Chaetocladus gracilis n. sp., a non-calcified Dasycladales from the Upper Silurian of Skåne, Sweden

scholarly article by Paul Kenrick & Jakob Vinther published December 2006 in Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Characterization of melanosomes involved in the production of non-iridescent structural feather colours and their detection in the fossil record

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils

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Colour-producing β-keratin nanofibres in blue penguin (Eudyptula minor) feathers

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2011)

Correction to 'Multiple optimality criteria support Ornithoscelida'.

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Countershading and Stripes in the Theropod Dinosaur Sinosauropteryx Reveal Heterogeneous Habitats in the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota

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Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities

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Cretaceous dinosaur bone contains recent organic material and provides an environment conducive to microbial communities.

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period

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EXPERIMENTAL TAPHONOMY OF KERATIN: A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF EARLY TAPHONOMIC CHANGES

scientific article published in 2017

Exceptional three-dimensional preservation and coloration of an originally iridescent fossil feather from the Middle Eocene Messel Oil Shale

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Experimental subaqueous burial of a bird carcass and compaction of plumage

scientific article published in 2018

Fossil evidence for evolution of the shape and color of penguin feathers

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Fossil melanosomes or bacteria? A wealth of findings favours melanosomes: Melanin fossilises relatively readily, bacteria rarely, hence the need for clarification in the debate over the identity of microbodies in fossil animal specimens

scientific article published on 22 December 2015

Increasing species sampling in chelicerate genomic-scale datasets provides support for monophyly of Acari and Arachnida

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Investigating the effect of atmospheric turbulence on mid-IR data quality with VISIR

scholarly article published 18 July 2016

Jaw elements in Plumulites bengtsoni confirm that machaeridians are extinct armoured scaleworms

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Low fossilization potential of keratin protein revealed by experimental taphonomy

scientific article published in 2017

Machaeridian locomotion

scientific article published in 2009

Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids

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Melanin concentration gradients in modern and fossil feathers

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Melanosome diversity and convergence in the evolution of iridescent avian feathers-implications for paleocolor reconstruction

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Metamorphism obscures primary taphonomic pathways in the early Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland

scholarly article

MicroRNAs resolve an apparent conflict between annelid systematics and their fossil record

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2009)

Molecular clocks indicate turnover and diversification of modern coleoid cephalopods during the Mesozoic Marine Revolution

scientific article published in March 2017

Molecular palaeontology illuminates the evolution of ecdysozoan vision.

scientific article published on 5 December 2018

Multiple optimality criteria support Ornithoscelida

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New evidence on the colour and nature of the isolated Archaeopteryx feather

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Nonbiomineralized carapaces in Cambrian seafloor landscapes (Sirius Passet, Greenland): Opening a new window into early Phanerozoic benthic ecology

scholarly article by M. Gabriela Mángano et al published June 2012 in Geology

On the purported presence of fossilized collagen fibres in an ichthyosaur and a theropod dinosaur

scholarly article by Fiann M. Smithwick et al published 17 April 2017 in Palaeontology

Onychophoran-like myoanatomy of the Cambrian gilled lobopodian Pambdelurion whittingtoni

article published in 2016

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

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Pancrustacean Evolution Illuminated by Taxon-Rich Genomic-Scale Data Sets with an Expanded Remipede Sampling

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and the evolution of the vertebrate eye

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Plumage color patterns of an extinct dinosaur

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Preservation of feather fibers from the Late Cretaceous dinosaur Shuvuuia deserti raises concern about immunohistochemical analyses on fossils

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Preservation of uropygial gland lipids in a 48-million-year-old bird

scientific article published in 2017

Primitive wing feather arrangement in Archaeopteryx lithographica and Anchiornis huxleyi.

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse

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Reconstructing the ancestral annelid

scientific article published in 2012

Reconstruction of Microraptor and the evolution of iridescent plumage

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Revisiting the identification of Syllipsimopodi bideni and timing of the decabrachian-octobrachian divergence

scientific article published on 7 December 2023

Rhetoric vs. reality: A commentary on “Bird Origins Anew” by A. Feduccia

scientific article published in 2015

Sediment-encased maturation: a novel method for simulating diagenesis in organic fossil preservation

scientific article published on 25 July 2018

Soft-Bodied Fossils Are Not Simply Rotten Carcasses - Toward a Holistic Understanding of Exceptional Fossil Preservation: Exceptional Fossil Preservation Is Complex and Involves the Interplay of Numerous Biological and Geological Processes

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Sophisticated digestive systems in early arthropods

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Structural coloration in a fossil feather

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Structure and homology ofPsittacosaurustail bristles

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THE CANAL SYSTEM IN SCLERITES OF LOWER CAMBRIANSINOSACHITES(HALKIERIIDAE: SACHITIDA): SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE MOLLUSCAN AFFINITIES OF THE SACHITIDS

scientific article published in 2009

The Early Cambrian Halkieria is a mollusc

scientific article (publication date: 2005)

The True Colors of Dinosaurs

scientific article published on 01 February 2017

The colour of fossil feathers

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The eyes of Tullimonstrum reveal a vertebrate affinity

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The first articulated specimen ofPlumulites canadensis(Woodward, 1889) from the Upper Ordovician of Ontario, with a review of the anterior region of Plumulitidae (Annelida: Machaeridia)

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The impact of fossil data on annelid phylogeny inferred from discrete morphological characters

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The mouth apparatus of the Cambrian gilled lobopodianPambdelurion whittingtoni

scientific article published in 2016

The oldest marine vertebrate fossil from the volcanic island of Iceland: a partial right whale skull from the high latitude Pliocene Tjörnes Formation

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The origin of annelids

scientific article published in 2014

The origin of multiplacophorans - convergent evolution in Aculiferan molluscs

article published in 2012

The origins of molluscs

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Three-dimensional modelling, disparity and ecology of the first Cambrian apex predators

scientific article published in 2021

Unveiling biases in soft-tissue phosphatization: extensive preservation of musculature in the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) polychaeteRollinschaeta myoplena(Annelida: Amphinomidae)

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Vetulicolians from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland, and the polarity of morphological characters in basal deuterostomes

scholarly article by Jakob Vinther et al published May 2011 in Palaeontology

Was the Devonian placoderm Titanichthys a suspension feeder?

scientific article published on 20 May 2020