Publications 2016

Bercovici, A., Vajda, V., 2016. Terrestrial Permian – Triassic boundary sections in South China. Global and Planetary Change, 143: 31–33.

Betts, M.J., Paterson, J.R., Jago, J.B., Jacquet, S.M., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P. & Brock, G.A., 2016. A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia. Gondwana Research 36: 163-195.

Bouchal, J. M., Zetter. R., Denk, T., 2016. Pollen and spores of the uppermost Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado: a combined light and scanning electron microscopy study. Grana 55 (3): 179-245. DOI: 10.1080/00173134.2015.1108362

Bouchal, J. M., Grímsson, F., Zetter, R., Denk, T., 2016. The middle Miocene palynoflora and palaeoenvironments of Eskihisar (Yatağan Basin, southwestern Anatolia): a combined LM and SEM investigation Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 182 (1): 14-79.

Buono, M.R., Fernandez, M.S., Reguero, M.A., Marenssi, S.A., Santillana, S.N. & Mörs, T., 2016. Eocene basilosaurid whales from the La Meseta Formation, Marambio (Seymour) Island, Antarctica. Ameghiniana, 53: 296-315. http://dx.doi.org/10.5710/AMGH.02.02.2016.2922

Čerňanský, A., Szyndlar, Z. & Mörs, T., 2016. Fossil squamate faunas from the Neogene of Hambach (northwestern Germany). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. DOI 10.1007/s12549-016-0252-1

Choo, T.Y.S., Escapa, I.H., and Bomfleur, B., 2016. Monotypic colonies of Clathropteris meniscioides (Dipteridaceae) from the Early Jurassic of central Patagonia, Argentina: implications for taxonomy and palaeoecology. Palaeontographica Abt. B., 294(1–4): 85–109.

Cunningham, J, Liu, A, Bengtson, S. & Donoghue, P, 2016. The origin of animals: can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?. BioEssays DOI: 10.1002/bies.201600120

Denk, T. 2016. Palaeoecological interpretation of the late Miocene landscapes and vegetation of northern Greece: a comment to Merceron et al., 2016. Geobios 49: 135-146, doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2016.01.004.

Devaere, L. & Skovsted, C.B., 2016. New early Cambrian sclerites of Lapworthella schodakensis from North-East Greenland: advancements in the knowledge of lapworthellid taxonomy, sclerite growth and scleritome organization. Geological Magazine. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0016756816000698

Dong, X.-p., Vargas, K., Cunningham, J.A., Zhang, H., Liu, T., Chen, F., Liu, J., Bengtson, S., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2016. Developmental biology of the early Cambrian cnidarian Olivooides. Palaeontology, 59(3): 387–407.

Einarsson, E., Praszkier, A., & Vajda, V., 2016. First evidence of the Cretaceous decapod crustacean Protocallianassa from Sweden. In: Kear, B. P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J. H., Milaán, J. & Vajda, V. (eds) Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 434: 241-250. doi.org/10.1144/SP434.6

Engelbrecht, A., Mörs, T., Reguero, M.A. & Kriwet, J., 2016. A new sawshark, Pristiophorus laevis, from the Eocene of Antarctica with comments on Pristiophorus lanceolatus. Historical Biology http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2016.1252761

Faurby, S., Werdelin, L. & Svenning, J. C., 2016. The difference between trivial and scientific names: There were never any true cheetahs in North America. Genome Biology. 2016, 17:89 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0943-y

Friis, E. M., Pedersen, K. R. & Crane, P. R., 2016. Kenilanthus, a new eudicot flower with tricolpate pollen from the Early Cretaceous (early-middle Albian) of eastern North America. Grana, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2016.1158863

Friis, E.M., Pedersen KR, Crane PR., 2016 The emergence of core eudicots: new floral evidence from the earliest Late Cretaceous. Proc. R. Soc. B 283: 20161325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1325

Fortelius, M., Žliobaitė, I., Kaya, F., Bibi, F., Bobe, R. Leakey, L., Leakey, M., Patterson, D., Rannikko, J. & Werdelin, L. 2016. An ecometric analysis of the fossil mammal record of the Turkana Basin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 371: 20150232. http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1698/20150232.

Goedert, J. L., and Kiel, S., 2016, A lower jaw of the nautiloid Aturia angustata from Oligocene cold seep limestone, Washington State, U.S.A. PaleoBios 33: 1-6.

Gouramanis, C. & McLoughlin, S., 2016. Siluro-Devonian trace fossils from the Mereenie Sandstone, Kings Canyon, Watarrka National Park, Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory, Australia. Alcheringa 40, 118–128. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2016.1099957

Grimm, G.W., Bouchal, J.M., Denk, T., Potts, A. 2016. Fables and foibles: A critical analysis of the Palaeoflora database and the Coexistence Approach for palaeoclimate reconstruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 233: 216-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.07.001

Grímsson, F., Grimm, G.W., Meller, B., Bouchal, J. M., and Zetter, R. 2016. Combined LM and SEM study of the middle Miocene (Sarmatian) palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria: part IV. Magnoliophyta 2 – Fagales to Rosales. Grana 55: 101-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2015.1096566

Halamski, A.T. Kvaček, J. & Vajda, V. 2016. Late Cretaceous (Campanian) leaf and palynoflora from southern Sweden. In: Kear, B.P. et al., eds, Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society of London Special Publications 434: 207-230.

Ivarsson, M., Schnürer, A., Bengtson, S., Neubeck, A., 2016. Anaerobic fungi: a potential source of biological H2 in the oceanic crust. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:674, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00674.

Ivarsson, M., Bengtson, S., Neubeck, A., 2016. The igneous oceanic crust – Earth’s largest fungal habitat? Fungal Ecology 20: 249-255.

Jadwiszczak, P. & Mörs, T., 2016. First report on quill pits in early penguins. Antarctic Science 28 (3): 217-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954102015000668

Jacquet, S.M., Brougham, T., Skovsted, C.B., Jago, J.B., Laurie, J. R., Betts, M. J., Topper, T.P. & Brock, G. A. 2016. Watsonella crosbyi from the lower Cambrian (Terreneuvian, Stage 2) Normanville Group in South Australia. Geological Magazine DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756816000704

Kear, B. P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J. H., Milán, J. & Vajda, V., 2016. An introduction to the Mesozoic biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic territories. In: Kear, B. P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J. H., Milaán, J. & Vajda, V. (eds) Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 434: 1-14. doi.org/10.1144/SP434.6

Kiel, S. 2016. A biogeographic network reveals evolutionary links between deep-sea hydrothermal vent and methane seep faunas. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283, 20162337; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2337.

Kiel, S., Amano, K., Jenkins, R. G. 2016. Predation scar frequencies in chemosymbiotic bivalves at an Oligocene seep deposit and their potential relation to inferred sulfide tolerances. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 453, 139–145.

Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert J H A, Kustatscher E, Pott C, Scheißner S, Dütsch G, Krings M., 2016. New data on Selaginellites coburgensis from the Rhaetian of Wüstenwelsberg (Upper Franconia, Germany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 280, 177-181. DOI & PDF: 10.1127/njgpa/2016/0573

Kriwet, J., Engelbrecht, A., Mörs, T., Reguero, M. & Pfaff, C., 2016. Ultimate Eocene (Priabonian) chondrichthyans (Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) of Antarctica. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36, e1160911. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2016.1160911.

Kuhn, B. F., Hartstone-Rose, A., Lacruz, R. S., Herries, A. I. R., Werdelin, L., Bamford, M. K., & Berger, L. R. 2016. The carnivore guild circa 1.98 million years: biodiversity and implications for the palaeoenvironment at Malapa, South Africa. Palaeobiodiversity & Palaeoenvironments 96: 611. DOI 10.1007/s12549-016-0245-0.

Kuhn, B. F., Werdelin, L. & Steininger, C. 2016. Fossil Hyaenidae from Cooper’s Cave South Africa, and the palaeoenvironmental implications. Palaeodiversity & Palaeoenvironments DOI 10.1007/s12549-016-0247-y

Landing, E. and Kouchinsky, A. 2016. Correlation of the Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation: geochronology, evolutionary stasis of earliest Cambrian (Terreneuvian) small shelly fossil (SSF) taxa, and chronostratigraphic significance. Geological Magazine 153: 750-756. doi:10.1017/S0016756815001089

McLoughlin, S., 2016. A new genus of glossopterid fructifications from the Artinskian–Changhsingian of eastern Australia. Ameghiniana 53, 586–598. doi: 10.5710/AMGH.09.07.2016.3010

McLoughlin, S., 2016. Exceptional fossils and biotas of Gondwana: the fortieth anniversary issue of Alcheringa. Alcheringa 40, 399–406.

McLoughlin, S. & Strullu-Derrien, C., 2016. Biota and palaeoenvironment of a high middle-latitude Late Triassic peat-forming ecosystem from Hopen, Svalbard Archipelago. In Kear, B.P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J.H., Milàn, J. & Vajda, V., eds, Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society of London Special Publications 434, 87–112.

McLoughlin, S. & Bomfleur, B., 2016. Biotic interactions in an exceptionally well preserved osmundaceous fern rhizome from the Early Jurassic of Sweden. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 464: 86-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.01.044

McLoughlin, S., Bomfleur, B., Mörs, T. & Reguero, M., 2016. Fossil clitellate annelid cocoons and their microbiological inclusions from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Palaeontologia Electronica 19.1.11A. http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1448-eocene-annelid-cocoons

McLoughlin, S., Bomfleur, B., Mörs, T., 2016. The weird world of fossil worm cocoons. Deposits Magazine 46, 15–17.

Mutvei, H. 2016. Siphuncular structures in Calciosiphonate nautiloid orders Actinocerida, Orthocerida and Barrandeocerida (Cephalopoda). GFF 138: 295-305. DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2015.1123768

Mörs, T., Tomida, Y. & Kalthoff, D.C., 2016: A new large beaver (Mammalia, Castoridae) from the Early Miocene of Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36 (2), e1080720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2016.1080720

Neubeck, A., Tulej, M., Ivarsson, M., Broman, C., Riedo, A., Wurz, P., Bengtson, S., McMahon, S., 2016. Mineralogical determination in situ of a highly heterogenous material using miniaturized laser ablation mass spectrometer with high spatial resolution. International Journal of Astrobiology 15(2): 133-146.

Nobuhara, T., Onda, D., Sato, T., Aosawa, H., Ishimura, T., Ijiri, A., Tsunogai, U., Kikuchi, N., Kondo, Y., and Kiel, S., 2016, Mass occurrence of the enigmatic gastropod Elmira in the Late Cretaceous Sada Limestone seep deposit in southwestern Shikoku, Japan. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 90: 701-722. DOI 10.1007/s12542-016-0326-4

Oh, C., Park, T.-Y., Woo, J., Bomfleur, B., Philippe, M., Decombeix, A.-L., Kim, Y.-H., and Lee, J.I., 2016. Triassic Kykloxylon wood (Corystospermaceae, Gymnospermopsida) from Skinner Ridge (northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 233: 104–114.

Peel, J.S., Streng, M., Geyer, G., Kouchinsky, A., and Skovsted, C.B., 2016. Ovatoryctocara granulata assemblage (Cambrian Series 2–Series 3 boundary) of Løndal, North Greenland. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs 49, 241-282.

Peterffy, O., Calner, M. & Vajda, V., 2016. Early Jurassic microbial mats - a potential response to reduced biotic activity in the aftermath of the Triassic mass extinction event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 464: 76-85. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.024

Pott C., 2016. Westersheimia pramelreuthensis from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Lunz, Austria: More evidence for a unitegmic seed coat in early Bennettitales. International Journal of Plant Sciences 177, 771–791. DOI & PDF: 10.1086/688708

Pott C, Schmeissner S, Dütsch G, Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert J H A., 2016. Bennettitales in the Rhaetian flora of Wüstenwelsberg, Bavaria, Germany. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 232: 98-118. DOI & PDF: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.04.010

Pott C, Van der Burgh J, Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert J H A., 2016. New ginkgophytes from the Upper Triassic–Lower Cretaceous of Spitsbergen and Edgeøya (Svalbard, Arctic Norway): The history of Ginkgoales on Svalbard. International Journal of Plant Sciences 177, 175-197. DOI & PDF: 10.1086/684194

Réblová, M., Hubka, V., Thureborn, O., Lundberg, J., Sallstedt, T., Wedin, M., Ivarsson, M. 2016. From the tunnels into the treetops: new lineages of black yeasts from biofilm in the Stockholm metro system and their relatives among ant-associated fungi in the Chaetothyriales. PLOS ONE 11(10): e0163396. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0163396.

Renner, S. S., Grimm, G., Kapli, P., Denk, T., 2016. Species relationships and divergence times in beeches: New insights from the inclusion of 53 young and old fossils in a birth-death clock model. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 20150135. http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1699/20150135

Schwarzhans, W., Mörs, T., Engelbrecht, A., Reguero, M. & Kriwet, J., 2016. Before the freeze: Otoliths from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica, reveal dominance of gadiform fishes (Teleostei). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, #: #-#. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2016.1151958

Simeone, M. C., Grimm, G. W., Papini, A., Vessella, F., Cardoni, S., Tordoni, E., Piredda, R., Franc, A., Denk, T., 2016. Plastome data reveal multiple geographic origins of Quercus Group Ilex. PeerJ 4:e 1897. DOI 10.7717/peerj.1897

Sjöqvist, A.S.L., Lindgren, P., Sturkell, E.F.F., Hogmalm, K.J., Broman, C., Ivarsson, M., Lee, M.R., 2016. Shock metamorphism and hydrothermal alteration of mafic impact ejecta from the Lockne impact structure, Sweden. GFF, DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2016.1227361.

Skovsted, C.B., 2016. A silicified tommotiid from the lower Cambrian of Greenland. Bulletin of Geosciences 91(3): 553–559.

Skovsted, C.B., Pan, B., Topper, T.P., Betts, M.J., Li, G., & Brock, G.A., 2016. The operculum and mode of life of the lower Cambrian hyolith Cupitheca from South Australia and North China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 443: 123-130.

Steinthorsdottir, M., Vajda, V., Pole, M., 2016. Global trends of pCO2 across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary supported by the first Southern Hemisphere stomatal proxy-based pCO2 reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 464:143-152.

Vajda, V., Linderson, H. & McLoughlin, S., 2016. Disrupted vegetation as a response to Jurassic volcanism in southern Sweden. In: Kear, B. P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J. H., Mila`n, J. & Vajda, V. (eds) Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 434: 127-147. http://doi.org/10.1144/SP434.17

Vajda, V., Pesquero Fernández, D., Villanueva-Amadoz, U., Lehsten, V., Alcalá, L., 2016. Dietary and environmental implications of early Cretaceous predatory dinosaur coprolites from Teruel, Spain.   Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 464: 134–142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.036

Vajda, V., Pole, M. & Sha, J., 2016. Mesozoic ecosystems – climates and biotas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology 464: 1–4.

Vinuesa, V., Madurell-Malapeira, J., Werdelin, L., Robles, J. M., Obradó, P., & Alba, D. M., 2016. A new skull of Hyaenictis Gaudry, 1861 (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) shows incipient adaptations to durophagy. Journal of Mammalian Evolution doi: 10.1007/s10914-016-9334-0

Werdelin, L., 2016. Människans evolution. Fauna & Flora 111:2-10.

Werdelin, L., 2016. Review of The White River Badlands: Geology and Paleontology by Rachel C. Benton, Dennis O. Terry, Jr., Emmett Evanoff, and H. Gregory McDonald. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1158720. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1158720.

Yamaguchi, T., Goedert, J.L. & Kiel, S., 2016. Marine ostracodes from Paleogene hydrocarbon seep deposits in Washington State, USA and their ecological structure. Geobios 49: 407–422.

Zepeda Mendoza, M.L., Lundberg, J., Ivarsson, M., Campos, P., Nylander, J. A. A., Sallstedt, T., Dalén, L., 2016. Metagenomic analysis from the interior of a speleothem in Tjuv-Ante’s Cave, northern Sweden. PLOS ONE 11(3):e0151577. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0151577.

Žliobaitė, I., Rinne, J., Tóth, A., Mechenich, M., Liu, L., Behrensmeyer, A., Fortelius, M., 2016. Herbivore teeth predict climatic limits in Kenyan ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 113: 12751-12756.