List of works by Maria E McNamara

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

scientific article published on March 2017

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

scientific article

Dinosaur evolution. A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales

scientific article published in July 2014

Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space

article published in 2017

Experimental degradation of helicoidal photonic nanostructures in scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): implications for the identification of circularly polarizing cuticle in the fossil record

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

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

scientific article (publication date: 23 June 2013)

Fossil scales illuminate the early evolution of lepidopterans and structural colors.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Fossilization of melanosomes via sulfurization

scientific article

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

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

Fossilized skin reveals coevolution with feathers and metabolism in feathered dinosaurs and early birds.

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Non-integumentary melanosomes can bias reconstructions of the colours of fossil vertebrates

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Organic preservation of fossil musculature with ultracellular detail

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2010)

Pterosaur integumentary structures with complex feather-like branching

article

Pterosaur melanosomes support signalling functions for early feathers

scientific article published on 20 April 2022

Reconstructing Carotenoid-Based and Structural Coloration in Fossil Skin

scientific article

Reply to: No protofeathers on pterosaurs

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Response to Comment on "A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales".

scientific article published in October 2014

The Early Origin of Feathers

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

The fossil record of insect color illuminated by maturation experiments

scientific article

The original colours of fossil beetles

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2012)

Tissue-specific geometry and chemistry of modern and fossilized melanosomes reveal internal anatomy of extinct vertebrates

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

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

scientific article