Publications 2015

Anderson, H., Batten, D.J., Cantrill, D.J., Cleal, C., Feist-Burkhardt, S., Fensome, R.A., Head, M.J., Herendeen, P.S., Jaramillo, C., Kvaček, J., McLoughlin, S., Skog, J.E., Takahashi, M. & Wicander, R., 2015. (087–090) Proposal to treat the use of a hyphen in the name of a fossil-genus as an orthographical error. Taxon 64: 863

Bengtson, S., and Collins, D. 2015. Chancelloriids of the Cambrian Burgess Shale. Palaeontologia Electronica, 18(1): 67 pp.

Bercovici, Cui, Y., Forel, M-B, Yu, J., and Vajda, V. 2015. Terrestrial paleoenvironment characterization across the Permian–Triassic boundary in South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 98: 225 –246.

Bomfleur, B., Grimm, G.W. and McLoughlin, S., 2015. Osmunda pulchella sp. nov. from the Jurassic of Sweden – reconciling molecular and fossil evidence in the phylogeny of modern royal ferns (Osmundaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:126 (25 pp.). DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0400-7

Bomfleur, B., Mörs, T., Ferraguti, M., Reguero, M.A. and McLoughlin, S., 2015. Fossilized spermatozoa preserved in a 50-myr-old annelid cocoon from Antarctica. Biology Letters 11: 20150431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0431

Bouchal, J. M., Güner, T. H., and Denk, T. 2015. Palynological and palaeobotanical investigations in the Miocene Yatağan basin, Turkey; High-resoluton taxonomy and biostratigraphy. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 17, 13778.

Butler, A. D., Cunningham, J. A., Budd. G. E. & Donoghue, P. C. J. 2015. Experimental taphonomy of Artemia reveals the role of endogenous microbes in mediating decay and fossilization. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B: Biological Sciences 82: 20150476.

Chi Fru, E., Ivarsson, M., Kilias, S.P., Frings, S., Hemmingsson, C., Broman, C., Bengtson, S., and Chatzitheodoridis, C. 2015. Biogenicity of an early Quaternary iron formation, Milos Island, Greece. Geobiology 13: 225-244.

Cunningham, J. A., Vargas, K., Liu, P., Belivanova, V., Marone, F., Martínez-Perez, C., Guizar-Sicairos, M., Holler, M., Bengtson, S. & Donoghue, P. C. J. 2015. Critical appraisal of tubular putative eumetazoans from the Ediacaran Weng’an Doushantuo biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B: Biological Sciences 82: 20151169.

DiMaggio, E. N., Campisano, C. J., Rowan, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Deino, A. L., Bibi, F., Lewis, M. E., Souron, A., Garello, D., Werdelin, L., Reed, K. E., Arrowsmith, J. R. 2015. Late Pliocene Fossiliferous Sedimentary Record and the Environmental Context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia.Science 347: 1355-1359. 

Doguzhaeva, L. A. and Dunca, E. 2015. Siphonal zone structure in the cuttlebone of Sepia officinalis. Swiss J. Palaeontol. DOI 10.1007/s13358-015-0085-y.

Doguzhaeva, L. A., Mapes, R.H. 2015. Arm hooks and structural features in the Early Permian Glochinomorpha Gordon 1971, indicative of its coleoid affiliation. Lethaia 48(1): 100-114.

Donoghue, P. C. J., Cunningham, J. A., Dong, X.-P. and Bengtson, S. 2015. Embryology in deep time. In: Wanninger, A. (ed) Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 1: Introduction, Non-Bilateria, Acoelomorpha, Xenoturbellida, Chaetognatha. Spinger Verlag, 45- 63.

Drake, H., Åström, M.E., Heim, C., Broman, C., Åström, J., Whitehouse, M., Ivarsson, M., Siljeström, S., and Sjövall, P. 2015. Extreme 13C-depletion of carbonates formed during oxidation of biogenic methane in fractured granite. Nature Communications 6:7020, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8020.

Elgorriaga, A., Escapa, I. H., Bomfleur, B., Cúneo, N. R., and Ottone, G., 2015. A new fertile Equisetum species from the Early Jurassic of Cerro Bayo (Chubut Province, Argentina) with unusual pagoda-like structures. Ameghiniana, 52(1): 135–152.

Escapa, I.H., Bomfleur, B., Cúneo, N.R., and Scasso, R. 2015. A new fertile marattiaceous fern from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia: The renaissance of Marattiopsis. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(8): 677–689.

Friis, E. M., Crane, P. R., Pedersen, K. R., Stampanoni, M. & Marone, F. 2015. Exceptional preservation of tiny embryos documents seed dormancy in early angiosperms. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature16441

Friis, E. M., Grimm, G. W., Mendes, M. M. and Pedersen, K. R., 2015. Canrightiopsis, a new Early Cretaceous fossil with Clavatipollenites-type pollen bridge the gap between extinct Canrightia and extant Chloranthaceae. Grana 54 (3): 184-212.

Gelfo, J. N., Mörs, T., Lorente, M., López, G.M. & Reguero, M. 2015. The oldest mammals from Antarctica, early Eocene of La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island. Palaeontology 58: 101-110.  

Grimm, G. W., Kapli, P, Bomfleur, B., McLoughlin, S. and Renner, S.S., 2015. Using more than the oldest fossils: Dating Osmundaceae by three Bayesian clock approaches. Systematic Biology 64: 396–405. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syu108

Grímsson, F., Meller, B., Bouchal, J. M., and Zetter, R. 2015. Combined LM and SEM study of the middle Miocene (Sarmatian) palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria: Part III. Magnoliophyta 1 – Magnoliales to Fabales. Grana 54: 85–128.

Haig, D. Martin, S.K., Mory, A.J., McLoughlin, S., Backhouse, J., Berrell, R.W., Kear, B.P., Hall, R., Foster, C.B., Shi, G.R., Bevan, J.C., 2015. Early Triassic (early Olenekian) life in the interior of East Gondwana: mixed marine-terrestrial biota from the Kockatea Shale, Western Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 471: 511–533.

Hryniewicz, K., Hagström, J., Hammer, Ö., Kaim, A., Little, C.T.S. and Nakrem, H.A., 2015. Late-Jurassic - Early Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep boulders from Novaya Zemlya and their faunas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 436: 231-244. 

Ivarsson, M., Bengtson, S., Skogby, H., Lazor, P., Broman, C., Belivanova, V., Marone, F., 2015.A fungal-prokaryotic consortium at the basalt-zeolite interface in subseafloor igneous crust. PLOS ONE 10(10): e014016. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140106.

Ivarsson, M., Broman, C., Gustafsson, H., and Holm, N.G., 2015. Biogenic Mn-oxides in subseafloor basalts. PLOS ONE 10(6): e0128863. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128863.

Ivarsson, M., Holm, N.G., Neubeck, A., 2015. The deep biosphere of the subseafloor igneous crust. In: Demina, L.L., Galkin, S.V (eds). Trace Metal Biogeochemsitry and Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Systems. Springer Verlag, 1-24.

Ivarsson, M., Peckmann, J., Tehler, A., Broman, C., Bach, W., Behrens, K., Reitner, J., Böttcher, M.E., Norbäck-Ivarsson, L., 2015. Zygomycetes in vesicular basanites from Vesteris Seamount, Greenland Basin – a new type of cryptoendolithic fungi. PLOS ONE10(7): e0133368. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133368.

Jackson, M.D., Gudmundsson, M.T., Bach, W., Cappelletti, P., Coleman, N.J., Ivarsson, M., Jónasson, K., Jørgensen, S.L., Marteinsson, V., McPhie, J., Moore, J.G., Nielson, D., Rhodes, J.M., Rispoli, C., Schiffman, P., Stefánsson, A., Türke, A., Vanorio, T., Weisenberger, T.B., White, J.D.L., Zierenberg, R., Zimanowski, B., 2015. Time-lapse characterization of hydrothermal seawater and microbial interactions with basaltic tephra at Surtsey volcano. Scientific Drilling, 3, 1-8. Doi:10.5194/sd-3-1-2015.

Kiel, S. 2015. Did shifting seawater sulfate concentrations drive the evolution of deep-sea vent and seep ecosystems? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20142908.

Kiel, S., and Hansen, B. T., 2015. Cenozoic methane-seep faunas of the Caribbean region. PLoS ONE 10(10), e0140788.

Kouchinsky, A., Bengtson, S., Clausen, S. and Vendrasco, M.J. 2015. An early Cambrian fauna of skeletal fossils from the Emyaksin Formation, northern Siberia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (2): 421–512.

Kouchinsky, A., Holmer, L.E., Steiner, M., and Ushatinskaya, G.T., 2015. The new stem-group brachiopod Oymurania from the lower Cambrian of Siberia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(4): 963-980. http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00037.2013.

Liebenau, K., Kiel, S., Vardeh, D., Treude, T., and Thiel, V., 2015. A quantitative study on the degradation of whale bone lipids: implications for the preservation of fatty acids in marine sediments. Organic Geochemistry 89-90: 23–30.

Little, C.T.S., Birgel, D., Boyce, A.J., Crame, J.A., Francis, J.E., Kiel, S., Peckmann, J., Pirrie, D., Rollinson, G.K., and Witts, J.D. 2015. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) shallow water hydrocarbon seeps from Snow Hill and Seymour Islands, James Ross Basin, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 418: 213-228.

McLoughlin, S., 2015. The Landsborough Sandstone: the Sunshine Coast’s Jurassic park. Australian Age of Dinosaurs Magazine 12: 78–82.

McLoughlin, S., 2015. Homonymy of genera. Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 162–163: 8–11.

McLoughlin, S., Drinnan, A.N., Slater, B.J. & Hilton, J., 2015. Paurodendron stellatum: a new Permian permineralized herbaceous lycopsid from the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 220: 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.04.004

McLoughlin, S. & Kear, B.P., 2015. Editorial: Gondwanan Mesozoic biotas and bioevents. Gondwana Research 27: 905–910.

McLoughlin, S., Martin, S.K. and Beattie, R., 2015. The record of Australian Jurassic plant-arthropod interactions. Gondwana Research 27: 940–959.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.11.009

Mehlqvist, K., Wigforss‑Lange, J., and Vajda, V. 2015. Ludfordian palynological assemblages from Sweden (Klinta) reveal stable terrestrial environments during times of extreme marine conditions. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 106 (1), 1-15.

Mehlqvist, K., Steemans, P., Vajda, V. 2015. First evidence of Devonian strata in Sweden — A palynological investigation of Övedskloster drillcores 1 and 2, Skåne, Sweden. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 221: 144–159.

Meller B., Zetter R., Hassler A., Bouchal J.M., Hofmann C.-C., and Grímsson F. 2015. Middle Miocene macrofloral elements from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria, Part I. Ginkgo adiantoides (Unger) Heer. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 108/2: 185-198.

Natalicchio, M., Peckmann, J., Birgel, D., and Kiel, S. 2015. Seep deposits from northern Istria, Croatia: a first glimpse into the Eocene seep fauna of the Tethys region. Geological Magazine 152: 444–459.

Pott, C. and Axsmith, B. J. 2015. Williamsonia carolinensis sp. nov. and associated Eoginkgoites foliage from the Upper Triassic Pekin Formation: Implications for early evolution in Williamsoniaceae (Bennettitales). International Journal of Plant Sciences 175 (2): 174-185.

Pott, C. and Launis, A., 2015. Taeniopteris novomundensis sp. nov. - "cycadophyte" foliage from the Carnian of Switzerland and Svalbard reconsidered: How to use Taeniopteris? Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 275: 19-31.

Pott, C., Wang Xiaoli & Zheng Xiaoting. 2015. Wielandiella villosa comb. nov. from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, China: More Evidence for Divaricate Plant Architecture in Williamsoniceae.Botanica Pacifica. A journal of plant science and conservation 4(2) DOI: 10.17581/bp.2015.04215

Qu, Y.,  Engdahl, A.,  Zhu, S.,  Vajda, V., McLoughlin, N.,  2015.  Ultrastructural Heterogeneity of Carbonaceous Material in Ancient Cherts: Investigating Biosignature Origin and Preservation. Astrobiology 15 (10)

Schneebeli-Hermann, E., Kürschner, W. M., Kerp, H., Bomfleur, B., Hochuli, P. A., Bucher, H., Ware, D., and Rooh, G., 2015. Vegetation history across the Permian–Triassic boundary in Pakistan (Amb section, Salt Range). Gondwana Research 27(3): 911–924.  

Sha, J., Olsen, P.E., Yanhong Pan, Y., Xu, D., Wang Y., Zhang, X, and Vajda, V. 2015. Triassic-Jurassic climate in continental high-latitude Asia was dominated by obliquity-paced variations (Junggar Basin, Urumqi, China). PNAS 112: 3624-3629.

Skovsted, C.B., Ushatinskaya, G., Holmer, L.E., Popov, L.E., and Kouchinsky, A. 2015. Taxonomy, morphology, shell structure and early ontogeny of Pelmanotreta nom. nov. from the lower Cambrian of Siberia. GFF 137: 1–8.

Skovsted, C.B., Betts, M.J., Topper, T.P. & Brock, G.A. 2015. The early Cambrian tommotiid genus Dailyatia from South Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 48, 117 p.

Skovsted, C.B., Holmer, L.E., Brock, G.A., Topper, T.P. & Larsson, C.M., 2015. Revision of the early Cambrian tommotiid Kulparina rostrata from South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 89: 920-932.

Slater,B.J., McLoughlin, S. and Hilton, J., 2015. A high-latitude Gondwanan lagerstätte: The Permian permineralised peat biota of the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. Gondwana Research 27: 1446–1473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.01.004

Steinthorsdottir, M., and Vajda, V. 2015. Early Jurassic (late Pliensbachian) CO2 concentrations based on stomatal analysis of fossil conifer leaves from eastern Australia. Gondwana Research 27(3): 932-939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.08.021

Tewari, R. Ram-Awatar, Pandita, S.K., McLoughlin, S., Agnihotri, D., Pillai, S.S.K., Singh, V., Kumar, K., & Bhat, G.D., 2015. The Permian-Triassic palynological transition in the Guryul Ravine section, Kashmir, India: implications for Tethyan – Gondwanan correlations. Earth Science Reviews 14: 53–66.

Tosolini, A.-M. P., McLoughlin, S., Wagstaff, B. E., Cantrill, D. J. and Gallagher, S. J., 2015. Cheirolepidiacean foliage and pollen from Cretaceous high-latitudes of southeastern Australia. Gondwana Research 27: 960–977.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2013.11.008

Tulej, M., Neubeck, A., Ivarsson, M., Riedo, A., Neuland, M.B., Meyer, S., Wurz, P., 2015. Chemical composition of micrometer-sized filaments in an aragonite host by a miniature laser ablation/ionization mass spectrometer. Astrobiology 15: 669-682.

Vajda, V. 2015. Mass-utdöenden. In: Andreasson, P.G. (ed.). Geobiosfären - en introduktion. Studentlitteratur AB, 156-167.

Vajda, V., Ocampo, A., Ferrow, E., and Bender Koch, C. 2015. Nano particles as the primary cause for long-term sunlight suppression at high southern latitudes following the Chicxulub impact – evidence from ejecta deposits in Belize and Mexico Gondwana Research 27(3): 1079-1088. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2014.05.009

Wiese, F., Kiel, S., Pack, A., Walliser, E. O., and Agirrezabala, L. M. 2015. The beast burrowed, the fluid followed - crustacean burrows as methane conduits. Marine and Petroleum Geology 66(3): 631-640.