Publications 2020

Bomfleur, B., Mörs, T., Unverfärth, J., Liu, F., Läufer, A., Castillo, P., Oh, C., Park, T.-Y., Woo, J. & Crispini, L. 2020. Uncharted Permian to Jurassic continental deposits in the far north of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society 178, jgs2020-062. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-062

Bouchal, J.M. & Denk, T., 2020. Low taxonomic resolution of papillate Cupressaceae pollen (former Taxodiaceae) impairs their applicability for palaeo-habitat reconstruction. Grana 59: 71–93. https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2019.1701704

Bouchal, J.M. Güner, T.H., Velitzelos, D., Velitzelos, E. & Denk, T., 2020. Messinian vegetation and climate of the intermontane Florina–Ptolemais–Servia Basin, NW Greece inferred from palaeobotanical data: how well do plant fossils reflect past? Royal Society Open Science 7(5), 192067. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.192067

Bralower, T., Cosmidis, J., Fantle, M.S., Lowery, C.M., Passey, B.H., Gulick, S.P.S., Morgan, J.V., Vajda, V., Whalen, M.T., Wittmann, A., Artemieva, N., Farley, K., Goderis, S., Hajek, E., Heaney, P.J., Kring, D.A., Lyons, S.L., Rasmussen, C., Sibert, E., Rodríguez Tovar, F.J., Turner-Walker, G., Zachos, J.C., Carte, J., Chen, S.A., Cockell, C., Coolen, M., Freeman, K.H., Garber, J., Gonzalez, M., Gray, J.L., Grice, K., Jones, H.L., Schaefer, B., Smit, J., Tikoo, S.M. 2020. The Habitat of the Nascent Chicxulub Crater. AGU Advances 1, e2020AV000208. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000208

Bralower, T., Cosmidis, J., Heaney, P., Kump, L., Morgan, J., Haroer, D., Lyons, S., Freeman, K., Grice, K., Wendler, J., Zachos, J., Artemieva, N., Chen, S.A., Gulick, S., House, C., Jones, H., Lowery, C., Nims, C., Schaefer, B., Thomas, E., Vajda, V., 2020. Origin of a global carbonate layer deposited in the aftermath of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary impact. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 548, 116476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116476

Claybourn, T.M., Skovsted, C.B., Holmer, L.E., Pan, B., Myrow, P.M., Topper, T.P., & Brock, G.A. 2020. Brachiopods from the Byrd Group (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica. Papers in Palaeontology 6(3): 349-384. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1295

Crane, P. R. & Friis, E. M., 2020. Water lilies, loss of woodiness, and model systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117: 9674-9676. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005075117

Dagtekin, D., Şahan, E.A., Denk, T., Köse, N. & Dalfes, H.N., 2020. Past, present and future distributions of Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis) under climate change projections. PloS one 15, e0242280. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242280

de Anca Prado, V. & McLoughlin, S., 2020. Discovering the world of fossil fungi. Deposits Magazine 2020, 1–7. https://depositsmag.com/2020/07/25/discovering-the-world-of-fossil-fungi/

Denk, T., Hipp, A.L., Manos, P.S., Hahn, M., Avishai, M. & Bodénès, C., 2020. Genomic landscape of the global oak phylogeny. New Phytologist 226: 1198–1212. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16162

Drake, H., Ivarsson, M., Heim, C., 2020. Tracking the deep biosphere through time. Geosciences, 10, 461. doi:10.3390/geosciences10110461.

Faurby, S., Silvestro, D., Werdelin, L. & Antonelli, A., 2020. Brain expansion in early hominins predicts carnivore extinctions in East Africa. Ecology Letters 23: 537-544. doi: 10.1111/ele.13451

Friis, E.M., Crane, P.R. & Pedersen, K.R., 2020. Melloniflora, a new extinct multiparted flower from the Early Cretaceous of Virginia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 181(9): 887-897. DOI: 10.1086/710490

Friis, E.M, Crane, P.R. & Pedersen, K.R. 2020. Multiparted, apocarpous flowers from the Early Cretaceous of eastern North America and Portugal. Fossil Imprint 76(2), 279–296. DOI 10.37520/fi.2020.023

Friis, E.M., Crane, P.R., Pedersen, K.R., Marone, F. 2020. PUBLISHED DATASET: Synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy datasets for the Early Cretaceous flower Catanthus dolichostemon E.M.Friis, P.R.Crane & K.R.Pedersen from Portugal. PSI Public Data Repository https://doi.org/10.16907/977bdad7-6b3b-4a85-bf0c-f4cfc30a4aa7

Friis, E.M., Crane, P.R., Pedersen, K.R., Marone, F. 2020. PUBLISHED DATASET: Synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy datasets for Atlantocarpus, Lambertiflora and Mugideiriflora from the Early Cretaceous of eastern North America and Portugal. PSI Public Data Repository https://doi.org/10.16907/c01b594e-e42e-45f9-913e-5001fd283aee

Gastaldo, R.A., Bamford, M., Calder, J., DiMichele, W.A., Ianuzzi, R., Jasper, A., Kerp, H., McLoughlin, S., Opluštil, S., Pfefferkorn, H.W., Roessler, R. & Wang, J., 2020. UNIT 12: The Icehouse–Hothouse of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age, coal-forming environments, and their non-analog vegetation: in Martinetto, E. Tschopp, E. & Gastaldo, R.A., eds., Nature Through Time: Springer Verlag, Berlin, 291–316. ISBN 978-3-030-35057-4

Gastaldo, R.A., Bamford, M., Calder, J., DiMichele, W.A., Ianuzzi, R., Jasper, A., Kerp, H., McLoughlin, S., Opluštil, S., Pfefferkorn, H.W., Roessler, R. & Wang, J., 2020. UNIT 13: The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic: in Martinetto, E. Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R.A., eds., Nature Through Time: Springer Verlag, Berlin, 317–343. ISBN 978-3-030-35057-4.

Gee, C.T., Anderson, H.M., Anderson, J.M., Ash, S.R., Cantrill, D.J., van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, J.H.A., Vajda, V., 2020. Postcards from the Mesozoic: ForestLandscapes with Giant Flowering Trees, Enigmatic Seed Ferns, and Other Naked-Seed Plants. in Martinetto, E. Tschopp, E. & Gastaldo, R.A., eds, Nature Through Time: Springer Verlag, Berlin, 159–185. ISBN 978-3-030-35057-4.

Hardy, H., Knapp, S., Allan, E.L., Berger, F., Dixey, K., Döme, B., Gagnier, P.-Y. Frank, J., Haston, E.M., Holstein, J., Kiel, S., Marschler, M., Mergen, P., Phillips, S., Rabinovich, R., Chillón, B.S., Sorensen, M.V., Thines, M., Trekels, M., Vogt, R., Wilson, S. & Wiltschke-Schrotta, K., 2020. SYNTHESYS+ Virtual Access - Report on the Ideas Call (October to November 2019) https://riojournal.com/article/50354/

Herrera, F., Shi, G., Mays, C., Ichinnorov, N., Takahashi, M., Bevitt, J.J., Herendeen, P.S., Crane, P.R., 2020. Reconstructing Krassilovia mongolica supports recognition of a new and unusual group of Mesozoic conifers. PLOS One, 15. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226779

Ivarsson, M., Drake, H., Bengtson, S., & Rasmussen, S. 2020. A cryptic alternative for the evolution of hyphae. Bioessays, 42, DOI: 10.1002/bies.201900183

Ivarsson, M., Drake, H., Neubeck, A., Sallstedt, T., Bengtson, S., Roberts, N.M.W & Rasmussen, B. 2020. The fossil record of igneous rock. Earth Science Reviews, 210, 103342.

Jakubowicz, M., Kiel, S., Goedert, J.L., Dopieralska, J. & Belka, Z., 2020. Fluid expulsion system and tectonic architecture of the incipient Cascadia convergent margin as revealed by Nd, Sr and stable isotope composition of mid-Eocene methane seep carbonates. Chemical Geology 558, 119872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119872

Kiel, S., Aguilar, Y.M., and Kase, T. 2020. Mollusks from Pliocene and Pleistocene seep deposits in Leyte, Philippines. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65: 589–627.

Kiel, S., Hybertsen, F., Hyžný, M., and Klompmaker, A.A. 2020. Mollusks and a crustacean from early Oligocene methane-seep deposits in the Talara Basin, northern Peru. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65: 109-138.

Kilias, S.P., Ivarsson, M., Chi Fru, E., Rattray, J.E., Gustafsson, H.L., Naden, J., & Detsi, K. 2020. Precipitation of Mn oxides in quaternary microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS), Cape Vani paleo-hydrothermal vent field, Milos, Greece. Minerals, 10, 536; doi:10.3390/min10060536

Kim, S.L., Zeichner, S.S., Colman, A.S., Scher, H.D., Kriwet, J., Mörs, T. & Huber, M., 2020. Probing the ecology and climate of the Eocene Southern Ocean with sand tiger sharks Striatolamia macrota. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35(12), e2020PA003997. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003997

Kimura, Y., Casanovas-Vilar, I., Maridet, O., Kalthoff, D.C., Mörs, T. & Tomida, Y., 2020. Biogeography, diversity and dispersals of Asian eomyid rodents. Fossil Imprint, 76 (1): 181-200. https://doi.org/10.37520/fi.2020.012

Kitchener, A.C., Bellemain, E., Ding, X., Kopatz, A., Kutschera, V.E., Salomashkina, V., Ruiz-García, M., Graves, T., Hou, Y., Werdelin, L. & Janke, A. 2020. Systematics, evolution and genetics of bears. In: Bears of the World: Ecology, Conservation, and Management. Penteriani, V. & Melletti, M., eds, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 3–20.

Kvaček, Z. & Vasilis Teodoridis, V. & Denk, T., 2020. The Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main, Germany: taxonomy, palaeoenvironments and biogeographic affinities. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100, 647–703. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-019-00391-6

Li, L., Wang, Y., Kurschner, W., Ruhl, M., Vajda, V., 2020. Palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate changes across the Triassic–Jurassic transition in the Sichuan Basin, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 556, 109891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109891

Li, L., Skovsted, C.B., Yun, H., Betts, M.J. & Zhang, X. 2020. New insight into the soft anatomy and shell microstructures of early Cambrian orthothecids (Hyolitha). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20201467. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.1467

Liang, Y., Holmer, L.E., Skovsted, C.B. & Zhang, Z.-F. 2020. Shell structure and affinity of the problematic early Cambrian brachiopod Heliomedusa orienta Sun and Hou, 1987. Lethaia 53: 574-587. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12379

Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., Zhang, Z.-F. & Shu, D., 2020. Are hyoliths Palaeozoic lophophorates? National Science Review 7(2): 453-469. https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwz161/5606729?searchresult=1

Loch, C., Buono, M., Kalthoff, D.C., Mörs, T. & Fernandez, M., 2020. Enamel microstructure in Eocene cetaceans from Antarctica (Archaeoceti and Mysticeti). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 27: 289-298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-018-09456-3

Luo, Q., Fariborz, G., Zhong, N., Wang, Y., Qiu, N., Skovsted, C.B., Suchý, V., Schovsbo, N.H., Morga, R., Hao, J., Liu, A., Wu, J-n., Min, X., Cao, W. & Wu, J-a., 2020. Graptolites as fossil geo-thermometers and source material of hydrocarbons: an overvie of four decades of progress. Earth Science Reviews, vol. 200, article 103000. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012825219304945

McLoughlin, S., 2020. Marine and terrestrial invertebrate borings and fungal damage in Paleogene fossil woods from Seymour Island, Antarctica. GFF 142, 223–236. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2020.1781245

McLoughlin, S., Mays, C., Vajda, V., Bocking, M., Frank, T.D. & Fielding, C.R., 2020. Dwelling in the dead zone—vertebrate burrows immediately succeeding the end-Permian extinction event in Australia. Palaios 35, 342–357. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2020.007

Mays, C., Vajda, V., Frank, T.D., Fielding, C.R., Nicoll, R.S., Tevyaw, A.P., McLoughlin, S., 2020. Refined Permian–Triassic floristic timeline reveals early collapse and delayed re-covery of south polar terrestrial ecosystems. GSA Bulletin 132: 1489-1513. https://doi.org /10 .1130 /B35355 .1

Mendes, M. M., Pedersen, K. R. & Friis, E. M., 2020. Battenispermum hirsutum gen. et sp. nov., a new Early Cretaceous seed from Portugal with chlamydospermous organisation. Cretaceous Research, vol. 109: 104376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104376

Mutvei, H. 2020. Restudy of some plectronocerid nautiloids (Cephalopoda) from the late Cambrian of China; discussion on nautiloid evolution and origin of the siphuncle. GFF 142: 115-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2020.1739742

Mörs, T., Reguero, M. & Vasilyan, D., 2020. First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia. Scientific Reports, 10: 5051. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61973-5

Neubeck, A., Broman, C., Ivarsson, M., Holm, N.G., Whitehouse, M., Nilsson, S., Geppert, W., Gervilla, F., 2020. Isotopic signatures of carbon in the “Los Pobres” graphite mine, Ronda, Spain. Journal of Petrology, 61(4), egaa042. doi: 10.1093/petrology/egaa042

Oh, C., Philippe, M., McLoughlin, S., Woo, J., Leppe, M., Torres, T., Park, T.-Y.S., Choi, H.-G., 2020. New fossil woods from the early Cenozoic volcano-sedimentary rocks in the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, and implications for the trans-Antarctic Peninsula Eocene climatic gradient. Papers in Palaeontology 6, 1–29. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1256

Pan, B., Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A. Topper, T.P., Holmer, L.E., Li, L. & Li, G., 2020. Early Cambrian organophosphatic brachiopods from the Xinji Formation, Shuiyu section, North China. Palaeoworld 29, 512–533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2019.07.001

Sadowski, E.-M., Schmidt, A.R. & Denk, T., 2020. Staminate inflorescences with in situ pollen from Eocene Baltic amber reveal high diversity in Fagaceae (oak family). Willdenowia 50, 405–517. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.50.50303

Schaefer, B., Grice, K., Coolen, M-J-L., Summons, R.E., Cui, X., Bauersachs,T., Schwark, L., Böttcher, M., Bralower, T.J., Lyons, S.L., Freeman, K.H., Cockell, C., Gulick, S., Morgan, J. Whalen, M.T., Lowery, C., Vajda, V., 2020. Microbial life in the nascent Chicxulub crater. Geology 48: 328-332. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G46799.1

Skovsted, C.B., Martí Mus, M., Zhang, Z.-L., Pan, B., Li, L., Liu, F., Li, G. & Zhang, Z.-F., 2020. On the origin of hyolith helens. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 555, 109848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109848

Smith, V., Warny, S., Jarzen, D.M., Demchuk, T., Vajda, V., & The Expedition 364 Science Party, 2020. Palaeocene–Eocene miospores from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 1: spores and gymnosperm pollen. Palynology 44: 473-487. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2019.1630860

Smith, V., Warny, S., Jarzen, D.M., Demchuk, T., Vajda, V., Gulick, S.P.S, 2020. Paleocene–Eocene palynomorphs from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 2: angiosperm pollen. Palynology 44: 489-519. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2019.1705417

Stilwell, J.D., Mays, C., 2020. Lost World of Rēkohu: Ancient ‘Zealandian’ Animals and Plants of the Remote Chatham Islands. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 293 pp.

Stilwell, J.D., Langendam, A., Mays, C., Sutherland, L.J.M., Arillo, A., Bickel, D.J., De Silva, W.T., Pentland, A.H., Roghi, G., Price, G.D., Cantrill, D.J., Quinney, A., Peñalver, E., 2020. Amber from the Triassic to Paleogene of Australia and New Zealand as exceptional preservation of poorly known terrestrial ecosystems. Scientific Reports, 10: 5703. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62252-z

Svenska Geologiska Namnkommittén (Wickström, L., Andersson, U.B., Bergman, S., Calner, M., Jansson, N., Johnson, M., Kumpulainen, R., McLoughlin, S. & Olvmo, M.), 2020. Geologisk namngivning i Sverige. Geologiskt Forum 106, 10–11.

Terhune, C.E., Curran, S., Croitor, R., Drăgușin, V., Petculescu, A., Robinson, C., Robu, M. & Werdelin, L., 2020. Early Pleistocene fauna of the Olteţ River Valley of Romania: Biochronological and biogeographic implications. Quaternary International 553, 14-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.020

Topper, T.P., Guo, J., Clausen, S., Skovsted, C. & Zhang, Z., 2020. Reply to ‘Re-evaluating the phylogenetic position of the enigmatic early Cambrian deuterostome Yanjiahella’. Nature Communications 11, 1287. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14922-9

Tulej, M., Neubeck, A., Riedo, A., Lukmanov, R., Grimaudo, V., Ligterink, N.F.W., Ivarsson, M., Bach, W., de Koning, C., Wurz, P. 2020. Isotope abundance ratio measurements using femtosecond laser ablation ionization mass spectrometry. Journal of Mass Spectrometry 55: e4660. DOI: 10.1002/jms.4660

Unverfärth, J., Mörs, T., Bomfleur, B. 2020. Palynological evidence supporting widespread synchronicity of Early Jurassic silicic volcanism throughout the Transantarctic Basin. Antarctic Science 32: 396-397. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954102020000346

Vajda, V., McLoughlin, S., Mays, C., Frank, T.D., Fielding, C.R., Tevyaw, A., Lehsten, V., Bocking, M. & Nicoll, R.S., 2020. End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding—An ancient biotic crisis with lessons for the present. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 529, Article 115875 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115875

Westbury, M. V., Hartmann, S., Barlow, A., Preick, M., Ridush, B., Nagel, D., Rathgeber, T., Ziegler, R., Baryshnikov, G., Sheng, G., Ludwig, G., Wiesel, I., Dalén, L., Bibi, F., Werdelin, L., Heller, R., & Hofreiter, M. 2020. Hyena palaeogenomes reveal a complex evolutionary history of cross-continental gene flow between spotted and cave hyena. Science Advances 6: eaay0456. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay0456

Yuan, Q., Barbolini, N., Rydin, C., Gao, D.-L., Wei, H.-C., Fan, Q.-S., Qin, Z.-J., Du, Y.-S., Shan, J.-J., Shan, F.-S. & Vajda, V., 2020. Aridification signatures from fossil pollen indicate a drying climate in east-central Tibet during the late Eocene. Climate of the Past 16, 2255–2273. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-2255-2020

Zhang, Z., Strotz, L.C., Topper, T.P., Chen, F., Chen, Y., Liang, Y., Zhang, Z., Skovsted, C.B. and Brock, G.A., 2020. An encrusting kleptoparasite-host interaction from the early Cambrian. Nature Communications, 11(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16332-3

Zhao, J., Xiao, L., Gulick, S., Morgan, J.V., Kring, D., Urrutia Fucugauchi, J., Schmiedere, M., de Graaf, S.J, Wittmann, A.,. Ross, C., Claeys, P., Pickersgill, A-M., Kaskes, P., Goderis, S., Rasmussen, C., Vajda, V., Ferriere, L., Feignon, J.G., Chenot, E., Perez-Cruz, L., Satoo, H., Yamaguchi, K., 2020. Geochemistry, geochronology and petrogenesis of Maya Block granitoids and dikes from the Chicxulub Impact Crater, Gulf of México: Implications for the assembly of Pangea. Gondwana Research 82: 128–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.12.003