Publications 2023

Berger, L. R., Makhubela, T., Molopyane, K., Krüger, A., Randolph-Quinney, P., Elliott, M., ... & Hawks, J. 2023. Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi. bioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.01.543127

Cavalcante, L., Barbolini, N., Bacsik, Z., Vajda, V., 2023. Analysis of fossil plant cuticles using vibrational spectroscopy: A new preparation protocol. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 316: 104944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.104944

Fortelius, M., Agustí, J., Bernor, R., de Bruijn, H., Croft, D., Damuth, J., Eronen, J., Evans, G., van den Hoek Ostende, L., Janis, Ch., Jernvall, J., Kaakinen, A., v. Koenigswald, W., Lintulaakso, K., Liu, L., Mittmann, W., Pushkina, D., Saarinen, J., Sen, S., Tesakov, A., Sova, S., Säilä, L., Viranta, S., Vislobokova, I., Werdelin, L. & Žliobaitė, I. 2023. The origin and early history of NOW as it happened. Pp. 17-32 In: Casanovas-Vilar, I., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Janis, C. & Saarinen, J. (Eds.) Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 years of the NOW database of fossil mammals. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_2

Friis EM, Crane PR & Pedersen KR. 2023. Multipartite flowers with a distinct floral cup and multiovulate carpels: an Early Cretaceous angiosperm of probable lauralean relationship. International Journal of Plant Sciences 184: 87-105. https://doi.org/10.1086/723682

Goñi, I., Skovsted, C.B., Li, L., Li, G., Betts, M.J., Dorjnamjaa, D., Altanshagai, G., Enkhbaatar, B. and Topper, T.P., 2023. New palaeoscolecid plates from the Cambrian Stage 3 of northern Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68, xxx-xxx. doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01030.2022

Groenewald, D.P., Krüger, A., Day, M.O., Penn-Clarke, C.R., Hancox, P.J., Rubidge, B.S., 2023. Unique trackway on Permian Karoo shoreline provides evidence of temnospondyl locomotory behaviour. PLOS ONE 18, e0282354. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282354

Hagenfeldt, S. E., Palmlöv, E., Amantov, A., Hagström, J., Ghalayini, R. & Liljedahl, Th. , 2023. The development of dark shales from the middle and late Cambrian to early Ordovician on the East European Platform – with focus on Gotland. GFF 145 (1-2), 30- 49.

Hopley, P.J., Cerling, T.E., Crété, L., Werdelin, L., Mwebi, O., Manthi, F.K., & Leakey, L.N. in press. Stable isotope analysis of carnivores from the Turkana Basin, Kenya: evidence for temporally-mixed fossil assemblages. Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.04.004

Ivarsson, M., 2023. Traces of Life in Basaltic Crust. In: Gargaud M. et al. (eds) Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_5522-1

Jadwiszczak, P., Svensson-Marcial, A. & Mörs, T. in press. An integrative insight into the synsacral canal of fossil and extant Antarctic penguins. Integrative Zoology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12689

Jiangzuo, Q., Werdelin, L., Sanisidro, O., Yang, R., Fu, J., Li, S., Wang, S., & Deng, T. 2023. Origin of adaptations to open environments and social behavior in sabertoothed cats from the northeastern border of the Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0019

Jovells-Vaqué, S. & Mörs, T. in press. The aberrant hamster Melissiodon (Cricetidae, Rodentia) from the early Miocene of Echzell and other German and French localities. Historical Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2067758

Kiel, S., Amano, K., and Goedert, J.L. 2023. New taxa, records, and data for vesicomyid bivalves from Cenozoic strata of the North Pacific region. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01061.2023

Kiel, S., Jakubowicz, M., Altamirano, A., Belka, Z., Dopieralska, J., Urbina, M., and Salas-Gismondi, R. 2023. The late Cenozoic evolution of the Humboldt Current System in coastal Peru: Insights from neodymium isotopes. Gondwana Research 116: 104-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.12.008

Kiel, S., Sami, M., and Taviani, M. 2023. Unusual Miocene hydrocarbon-seep faunas from the Brisighella area in northern Italy: embedded in clastics and first records of the lucinid bivalves Megaxinus and Miltha. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68: 127-132. doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01021.2022

Li, L., Topper, T.P., Betts, M.J., Dorjnamjaa, D., Altanshagai, G., Enkhbaatar, B., Li, G., & Skovsted, C.B. in press, Calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Cambrian. Geology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G50533.1

Li, Z. & Mörs, T. 2023. Dormice (Rodentia, Gliridae) from the Middle Miocene of Hambach 6C, Northwest Germany. Geobios. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.05.002

Li, Z., Mörs, T., Zhang,Y., Xie, K. & Li, Y. 2023. Ctenodactylid rodents (Rodentia, Ctenodactylidae) from the early Oligocene Nanpoping fauna of Lanzhou Basin, Northwest China. Palaeontographica A 326 (1-6): 151-182. https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/pala/2023/0139

Liang, Y., Strotz, L.C., Topper, T.P., Holmer, L.E., Budd, G.E., Chen, Y., Fang, R., Hu, Y. and Zhang, Z., 2023. Evolutionary contingency in lingulid brachiopods across mass extinctions. Current Biology, 33 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.038

Lyras, G., Werdelin, L., van der Geer, B.G.M, & van der Geer, A.A.E. 2023. Underwater feeding of early seals: evidence from fossil brains. Communications Biology ,6, 747. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05135-z

Matveev, A., Pakki, M., Shevchuk, O., & Klevcov, O. 2023. Jurassic system stratigraphy at the Kamianka village. Part 1. The Kozhulinska formation. Visnyk of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "Geology. Geography. Ecology;, (58), 59-72. https://doi.org/10.26565/2410-7360-2023-58-05

Mutvei, H., 2023. Hitherto undetected pore-canal network in the shell wall of the Ordovician Orthoceras from Baltoscandia (Cephalopoda: Orthoceratida, Calciosiphonata). GFF. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2022.2042377

Müller, S.P., Kroh, A., Birgel, D., Goedert, J.L., Kiel, S., and Peckmann, J. 2023. Mass occurrence of echinoids in an Oligocene hydrocarbon-seep limestone from the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA. Geological Magazine 160: 941-954. Doi: 10.1017/S0016756823000067

Peng, J., Slater, S. M., McLoughlin, S. and Vajda, V. 2023. New species of Kuqaia from the Lower Jurassic of Sweden indicates a possible water flea (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) affinity. PLoS ONE 18(6): e0282247. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282247

Qu, Y., Yin, Z., Kustatscher, E., Nützel, A., Peckmann, J., Vajda, V., and Ivarsson, M. 2023. Traces of Ancient Life in Oceanic Basalt Preserved as Iron-Mineralized Ultrastructures: Implications for Detecting Extraterrestrial Biosignatures. Astrobiology 23: 8. DOI: 10.1089/ast.2022.0075

Rubinstein, C., Vajda, V., 2023. Middle–Late Ordovician organic walled phytoplankton from Sweden: diversity and early radiation. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 72: 158. https://doi.org/10.3176/earth.2023.42

Schmid-Beurmann, H.A., Wolf-Achim, K., Bach, W., Ivarsson, M., Böttcher, M.E., Peckmann, J. 2023. Dispersal of endolithic microorganisms in vesicular volcanic rock: Distribution, settlement, and pathways revealed by 3D X-ray microscopy. Terra Nova, DOI: 10.1111/ter.12663.

Vajda, V., McLoughlin, S., Slater, S.M., Gustafsson, O. & Rasmusson, A.G., 2023. The ‘seed-fern’ Lepidopteris mass-produced the abnormal pollen Ricciisporites during the end-Triassic biotic crisis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 627: 111723.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111723

Van Laere, G. & Mörs, T. 2023. Beavers and flying squirrels (Rodentia: Castoridae, Pteromyini) from the Late Pliocene of Hambach 11C, Germany. Geodiversitas 45 (7): 223-241. https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a7. http://geodiversitas.com/45/7

Wang, X., Kiel, S., and Feng, D. 2023. Chapter 7: New biogeochemical proxies in seep bivalves. In: D. Chen, and D. Feng (eds), South China Sea Seeps, 115-126. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-1494-4

Werdelin, L., Drăguşin, V., Robu, M., Petculescu, A., Popescu, A., Curran, S., & Terhune, C. 2023. Carnivora from the early Pleistocene of Grăunceanu (Olteţ River Valley, Dacian Basin, Romania). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 129: 457-476.

Žliobaitė, I., Fortelius, M., Bernor, R.L., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Janis, C., Lintulaakso, K., Säilä, L.K., Werdelin, L., Casanovas-Vilar, I., Croft, D., Flynn, L., Hopkins, S.S.B., Kaakinen, A., Kordos, L., Kostopoulos, D.S., Pandolfi, L., Rowan, J., Tesakov, A., Vislobokova, I., Zhang Z., Aiglstorfer, M., Alba, D.M., Arnal, M., Antoine, P.-O., Belmaker, M.,, Bilgin, M., Boisserie, J.-R., Borths, M., Cooke, S.B., van Dam, J., Delson, E., Eronen, J., Fox, D., Friscia, A., Furió, M., Giaourtsakis, I.X., Holbrook, L., Hunter, J., López-Torres, S., Ludtke, J., Minwer-Barakat, R., van der Made, J., Mennecart, B., Pushkina, D., Rook, LK., Saarinen, J., Samuels, J., Sanders, W.J., & Silcox, M. 2023. The NOW database of Fossil Mammals. Pp. 33-42. In: Casanovas-Vilar, I., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Janis, C. & Saarinen, J. (Eds.) Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 years of the NOW database of fossil mammals. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_3