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A 365-Million-Year-Old Freshwater Community Reveals Morphological and Ecological Stasis in Branchiopod Crustaceans

scientific article

A 425-million-year-old silurian pentastomid parasitic on ostracods

scientific article

A 520 million-year-old chelicerate larva

scientific article

A Carboniferous Non-Onychophoran Lobopodian Reveals Long-Term Survival of a Cambrian Morphotype ⬇️

scientific article published on August 9, 2012

A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

A Large Cambrian Chaetognath with Supernumerary Grasping Spines

scientific article

A New Eurypterid (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation of Western Australia, With A Review of the Rhenopteridae

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A New Exceptionally Preserved Biota from the Lower Silurian of Wisconsin, U.S.A.

scientific article (publication date: 17 October 1985)

A Possible Tracemaker for Arthrophycus Alleghaniensis

scientific article published in 2012

A Silurian 'marrellomorph' arthropod

scientific article

A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny

scientific article

A Silurian myodocope with preserved soft-parts: cautioning the interpretation of the shell-based ostracod record

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2013)

A Silurian sea spider

scientific article

A Silurian short-great-appendage arthropod

scientific article

A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid ⬇️

scientific article published on May 26, 2011

A great-appendage arthropod with a radial mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany

scientific article

A mineralogical signature for Burgess Shale–type fossilization

scholarly article

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 mosquito's last supper reminds us not to underestimate the fossil record

scientific article

A new Lagerstätte from the Late Ordovician Big Hill Formation, Upper Peninsula, Michigan

article published in 2016

A new Ordovician arthropod from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa (USA) reveals the ground plan of eurypterids and chasmataspidids

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

A new crustacean from the Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte, UK, and its significance in malacostracan evolution.

scientific article published in March 2017

A new ophiocistioid with soft-tissue preservation from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte, and the evolution of the holothurian body plan

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

A new phyllocarid (Crustacea: Malacostraca) from the Silurian Fossil-Lagerstätte of Herefordshire, UK

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2004)

A new probable stem lineage crustacean with three-dimensionally preserved soft parts from the Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte, UK

scientific article (publication date: 7 September 2007)

A new trace fossil from the Middle Cambrian of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA

scientific article published in September 2003

A phylogenomic resolution of the sea urchin tree of life ⬇️

scientific article published in 2018

A phylogenomic resolution of the sea urchin tree of life ⬇️

A pyritized lepidocoleid machaeridian (Annelida) from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate, Germany

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2009)

A pyritized polychaete from the Devonian of Ontario

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 2007)

A soft-bodied lophophorate from the Silurian of England ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2011)

A starfish with three-dimensionally preserved soft parts from the Silurian of England

scientific article (publication date: 22 May 2005)

A three-dimensionally preserved lobopodian from the Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte, UK

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

A well-preserved respiratory system in a Silurian ostracod

Acaenoplax — polychaete or mollusc?

scientific article published in Nature

Adolf Seilacher (1925–2014)

obituary for palaeontologist Adolf "Dolf" Seilacher published in the scholarly journal Nature (publication date: 21 May 2014)

All the better to see you with: eyes and claws reveal the evolution of divergent ecological roles in giant pterygotid eurypterids

scientific article

Aluminosilicate haloes preserve complex life approximately 800 million years ago

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

An edrioasteroid from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte of England reveals the nature of the water vascular system in an extinct echinoderm

scientific article published in September 2017

An exceptionally preserved myodocopid ostracod from the Silurian of Herefordshire, UK

scientific article

An ostracode crustacean with soft parts from the Lower Silurian

scientific article (publication date: 5 December 2003)

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

scientific article

Ancient biomolecules: their origins, fossilization, and role in revealing the history of life

scientific article

Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 11 March 2015)

Appendages of the arthropod Aglaspis spinifer (Upper Cambrian, Wisconsin) and their significance ⬇️

scientific article published in 1979

Arm waving in stylophoran echinoderms: three-dimensional mobility analysis illuminates cornute locomotion

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Beyond Beecher's Trilobite Bed: Widespread pyritization of soft tissues in the Late Ordovician Taconic foreland basin

article by Úna C. Farrell et al published October 2009 in Geology

Bivalved arthropods from the Middle Ordovician Winneshiek Lagerstätte, Iowa, USA

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Brood care in a Silurian ostracod

scientific article

Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposits share a common mode of fossilization

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Carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation under continuous light: implications for paleoenvironmental interpretations of the High Arctic during Paleogene warming

scientific article

Chemical preservation of plants and insects in natural resins

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 1998)

Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

Chitin in the fossil record: identification of D-glucosamine

scholarly article

Computer reconstruction and analysis of the vermiform mollusc Acaenoplax hayae from the Herefordshire Lagerstatte (Silurian, England), and implications for molluscan phylogeny

article

Controls on the pyritization of exceptionally preserved fossils; an analysis of the Lower Devonian Hunsrueck Slate of Germany

article

Correction to 'Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for reconstructions of fossil feather colour'.

scientific article published on March 2017

Correction to 'What big eyes you have: the ecological role of giant pterygotid eurypterids'

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Crab in amber reveals an early colonization of nonmarine environments during the Cretaceous

scholarly article published in 2021

Cryptic iridescence in a fossil weevil generated by single diamond photonic crystals

scientific article

De Leeuw comment “On the origin of sedimentary aliphatic macromolecules”

scholarly article by Neal S. Gupta et al published September 2007 in Organic Geochemistry

Death near the shoreline, not life on land: Ordovician arthropod trackways in the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, UK: COMMENT

scholarly article

Decay and Mineralization of Shrimps

article published in 1994

Decay and preservation of polychaetes: taphonomic thresholds in soft-bodied organisms

Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period

scientific article

Doushantuo-type microfossils from latest Ediacaran phosphorites of northern Mongolia

scholarly article

Ecdysis in sea scorpions (Chelicerata: Eurypterida)

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Elemental mapping of exceptionally preserved ‘carbonaceous compression’ fossils

scientific article published in 2009

Enalikter aphson is an arthropod: a reply to Struck et al. (2014)

scientific article

Evidence for the in situ polymerisation of labile aliphatic organic compounds during the preservation of fossil leaves: Implications for organic matter preservation

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Exceptional fossil record: Distribution of soft-tissue preservation through the Phanerozoic

scholarly article

Exceptional fossil record: Distribution of soft-tissue preservation through the Phanerozoic: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Exceptional preservation of soft-bodied Ediacara Biota promoted by silica-rich oceans

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Exceptional preservation of soft-bodied Ediacara Biota promoted by silica-rich oceans: REPLY

scientific article

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

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Exceptionally preserved 450-million-year-old ordovician ostracods with brood care

scientific article

Exceptionally preserved conodont apparatuses with giant elements from the Middle Ordovician Winneshiek Konservat-Lagerstätte, Iowa, USA

article published in 2017

Experimental evidence for the formation of geomacromolecules from plant leaf lipids

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Experimental evidence that clay inhibits bacterial decomposers: Implications for preservation of organic fossils

article

Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for reconstructions of fossil feather colour

scientific article (publication date: 23 June 2013)

Extraordinary fossils reveal the nature of Cambrian life: a commentary on Whittington (1975) 'The enigmatic animal Opabinia regalis, Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia'

scientific article

First steps on land: Arthropod trackways in Cambrian-Ordovician eolian sandstone, southeastern Ontario, Canada

scientific article (publication date: 2002)

Fossil plants from the Eocene London Clay: the use of pyrite textures to determine the mechanism of pyritization

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Fossilization of feathers

scientific article published in 1995

Fossilization transforms vertebrate hard tissue proteins into N-heterocyclic polymers ⬇️

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Fossilized biophotonic nanostructures reveal the original colors of 47-million-year-old moths

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

Fossilized soft tissues in a Silurian platyceratid gastropod

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2006)

Hit and Miss: (A Comment on Persons and Acorn, “A Sea Scorpion’s Strike: New Evidence of Extreme Lateral Flexibility in the Opisthosoma of Eurypterids”)

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Ichnological evidence for the environmental setting of the Fossil-Lagerstätten in the Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany

scholarly article by Owen E. Sutcliffe et al published 1999 in Geology

Integrating morphology and in vivo skeletal mobility with digital models to infer function in brittle star arms

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Leaves in marine turbidites illuminate the depositional setting of the Pliocene Bowden shell beds, Jamaica

scholarly article

Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids

scientific article

Metamorphosis in a Silurian barnacle

scientific article (publication date: 22 November 2005)

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

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2009)

Middle Cambrian arthropods from Utah

scientific article published in 2008

Mineralization of soft-bodied invertebrates in a Jurassic metalliferous deposit

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Mineralization of soft-part anatomy and invading microbes in the horseshoe crab Mesolimulus from the Upper Jurassic Lagerstätte of Nusplingen, Germany

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2005)

Modes of life of arthropods from the Burgess Shale, British Columbia

scientific article

Molecular preservation of plant and insect cuticles from the Oligocene Enspel Formation, Germany: Evidence against derivation of aliphatic polymer from sediment

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Molecular signature of chitin-protein complex in Paleozoic arthropods

scholarly article

Molecular taphonomy of animal and plant cuticles: selective preservation and diagenesis

scientific article

New arthropods from the Lower Devonian Hunsruck Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, western Germany)

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Non-marine arthropod traces from the subaerial Ordovician Borrowdale Volcanic Group, English Lake District

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Obituary J. John Sepkoski Jr (1948-99)

scientific article published in Nature

Obituary: Harry Whittington (1916-2010).

scientific article

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

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Palaeobiology of latest Ediacaran phosphorites from the upper Khesen Formation, Khuvsgul Group, northern Mongolia

article published in 2018

Palaeobiology of the early Ediacaran Shuurgat Formation, Zavkhan Terrane, south-western Mongolia

Palaeontology: Decay distorts ancestry

scientific article published in February 2010

Paleolatitudinal sampling bias, Phanerozoic species diversity, and the end-Permian extinction

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Paleontology: a new Burgess Shale fauna

scientific article

Paleoredox and pyritization of soft-bodied fossils in the Ordovician Frankfort Shale of New York

Paleozoic ammonoid ecomorphometrics test ecospace availability as a driver of morphological diversification

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Phyllocarid crustaceans from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia

scientific article published in September 2011

Phylogenetic and physiological signals in metazoan fossil biomolecules

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Plumage color patterns of an extinct dinosaur

scientific article

Post-Cambrian closure of the deep-water slope-basin taphonomic window

scientific article published in 2003

Prospects for Sterane Preservation in Sponge Fossils from Museum Collections and the Utility of Sponge Biomarkers for Molecular Clocks

Pyritization of soft-bodied fossils: Beecher's Trilobite Bed, Upper Ordovician, New York State

article by Derek Briggs et al published 1991 in Geology

Reinvestigation of the occurrence of cutan in plants: implications for the leaf fossil record

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Reply to Piper: Aquilonifer's kites are not mites

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Role of microbial mats in the fossilization of soft tissues

scholarly article

Russia–UK Collaboration in Paleontology: Past, Present, and Future

scientific article published in 2017

Sampling the insects of the amber forest

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Scorpions take to the water

scientific article published in Nature

Seilacher, Konstruktions-Morphologie, Morphodynamics, and the Evolution of form

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Selective preservation of chitin during the decay of shrimp

scholarly article

Silurian brachiopods with soft-tissue preservation

scientific article published in August 2005

Silurian horseshoe crab illuminates the evolution of arthropod limbs.

scientific article

Sir Alwyn Williams. 8 June 1921 -- 4 April 2004: Elected FRS 1967

biographical article

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

scientific article

Soft-bodied fossils from a Silurian volcaniclastic deposit

scientific article published in Nature

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)

scientific article published in Nature

Structural coloration in a fossil feather

scientific article

Synziphosurines (Xiphosura: Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Iowa

scientific article published in 2011

Taxonomic trends in the resolution of detail preserved in fossil phosphatized soft tissues

scientific article published in 1997

The Anatomy of Conodonts

The Arthropod Alalcomenaeus cambricus Simonetta, from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia

scientific article published in 1999

The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’: decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity

The Cambrian explosion

scientific article published on October 2015

The Decorah structure, northeastern Iowa: Geology and evidence for formation by meteorite impact

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The Fezouata fossils of Morocco; an extraordinary record of marine life in the Early Ordovician ⬇️

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The Herefordshire Lagerstätte: fleshing out Silurian marine life

scientific article published in 2019

The Impact of Decay and Disarticulation on the Preservation of Fossil Birds

scientific article published in 1998

The Largest Cambrian Animal, Anomalocaris, Burgess Shale, British Columbia

The Morphology, Mode of Life, and Affinities of Canadaspis Perfecta (Crustacea: Phyllocarida), Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia

scientific article (publication date: 23 January 1978)

The Palaeozoic colonization of the water column and the rise of global nekton

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

The Role of Decay and Mineralization in the Preservation of Soft-Bodied Fossils

The affinities of the Cambrian animals Anomalocaris and Opabinia

scientific article published in 1987

The arthropod Offacolus kingi (Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England: computer based morphological reconstructions and phylogenetic affinities

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2002)

The colour of fossil feathers

scientific article

The cuticle of the aglaspidid arthropods, a red-herring in the early history of the vertebrates

scientific article published in 2007

The fossil record of insect color illuminated by maturation experiments

scientific article

The fossils of the Burgess Shale ⬇️

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The function of the ophiuroid nerve ring: how a decentralized nervous system controls coordinated locomotion

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

The impact of eutrophication and commercial fishing on molluscan communities in Long Island Sound, USA

The implications of a Silurian and other thylacocephalan crustaceans for the functional morphology and systematic affinities of the group

scientific article

The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa ⬇️

scientific article

The organic preservation of fossil arthropods: an experimental study

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2006)

The original colours of fossil beetles

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2012)

The role of experiments in investigating the taphonomy of exceptional preservation

scientific article published in 2015

The ‘Tully monster’ is a vertebrate

scientific article (publication date: 16 March 2016)

Three-dimensional visualization as a tool for interpreting locomotion strategies in ophiuroids from the Devonian Hunsrück Slate

scientific article published in December 2020

Three-dimensionally preserved insects

scientific article published in Nature

Three-dimensionally preserved minute larva of a great-appendage arthropod from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota

scientific article

Three-dimensionally preserved soft tissues and calcareous hexactins in a Silurian sponge: implications for early sponge evolution

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Tiny individuals attached to a new Silurian arthropod suggest a unique mode of brood care ⬇️

scientific article

Turbidite depositional influences on the diagenesis of Beecher's Trilobite Bed and the Hunsruck Slate; sites of soft tissue pyritization

article by R. Raiswell et al published 1 February 2008 in American Journal of Science

Tuzoia: Morphology and Lifestyle of a Large Bivalved Arthropod of the Cambrian Seas

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Water vascular system architecture in an Ordovician ophiuroid

scientific article

What big eyes you have: the ecological role of giant pterygotid eurypterids

scientific article

Wonderful strife: systematics, stem groups, and the phylogenetic signal of the Cambrian radiation

scientific article (publication date: June 2005)

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