Publications Vivi Vajda

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2023

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

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

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

2022

Danise, S., Slater, S. M., Vajda, V., & Twitchett, R. J. 2022. Land-sea ecological connectivity during a Jurassic warming event. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 578: 17290. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117290

Fielding, C.R., Frank, T., Savatic, K., Mays, C., McLoughlin, S., Vajda, V. & Nicoll, R. 2022. Environmental change in the late Permian of Queensland, NE Australia: the warmup to the end-Permian Extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 594, 110936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110936

McLoughlin, S. & Vajda, V., 2022. Palaeobotanical collections and facilities at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. In: 11th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference Abstracts, Program and Proceedings. McLoughlin, S., (Ed.), Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, pp. 35–43.

McLoughlin, S. & Vajda, V., 2022. The range of palaeobotanical studies in Sweden and future opportunities for research. In: 11th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference Abstracts, Program and Proceedings. McLoughlin, S., (Ed.), Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, pp. 45–56.

Mays, C., Vajda, V. & McLoughlin, S., 2022. Rise of the toxic slime. Scientific American 327, 56–63. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/toxic-slime-contributed-to-earth-rsquo-s-worst-mass-extinction-mdash-and-it-rsquo-s-making-a-comeback/

Mendes, M.M., Vajda, V., Cunha, P.P., Dinis, P., Svobodová, M. & Doyle, J.A. 2022. A Lower Cretaceous palynoflora from Carregueira (Lusitanian Basin, westernmost Iberia): taxonomic, stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications. Cretaceous Research 130: 105036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2021.105036

Olsen, P., Sha, J., Fang, Y., Chang, C., Whiteside, J.H., Kinney, S., Sues, H.D., Kent, D., Schaller, M. & Vajda, V., 2022. Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs. Science Advances 8 (26): eabo6342. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo6342

Peng, J., Slater, S.M. & Vajda, V., 2022. A Late Triassic vegetation record from the Huangshanjie Formation, Junggar Basin, China: possible evidence for the Carnian Pluvial Episode. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 521 (1): 95–108. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP521-2021-151

Slater, S.M., Bown, P., Twitchett, R.J. , Danise, S. & Vajda, V. 2022. Global record of “ghost” nannofossils reveals plankton resilience to high CO2 and warming. Science 376: 853-856. DOI: 10.1126/science.abm7330.

Vajda, V., Cavalcante, L., Palmgren, K., Krüger, A., Ivarsson, M. 2022. Prototaxites reinterpreted as mega-rhizomorphs, facilitating nutrient transport in early terrestrial ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 00: 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjm-2021-0358

2021

Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., Tevyaw, A.P., Savatic, K., Vajda, V., McLoughlin, S., Mays, C., Nicoll, R.S., Bocking, M. & Crowley, J.L., 2021. Sedimentology of the continental end-Permian extinction event in the Sydney Basin, eastern Australia. Sedimentology 68, 30-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12782

Frank, T.D., Fielding, C.R., Winguth, A.M.E., Savatic, K., Tevyaw, A., Winguth, C., McLoughlin, S., Vajda, V., Mays, C., Nicoll, R., Bocking, M., Crowley, J.L., 2021. Pace, magnitude, and nature of terrestrial climate change through the end Permian extinction in southeastern Gondwana. Geology 49. doi: 10.1130/G48795.1

Jarochowska, E., Bremer, O., Yiu, A., Märss, T., Blom, H., Mörs, T. & Vajda, V. 2021. Revision of thelodonts, acanthodians, conodonts, and the depositional environments in the Burgen outlier (Ludlow, Silurian) of Gotland, Sweden. GFF, 143 (2-3): 168-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2021.1907441

Krüger, A., Slater, S. & Vajda, V. 2021. 3D imaging of shark egg cases (Palaeoxyris) from Sweden with new insights into Early Jurassic shark ecology. GFF, 1–19. doi. 10.1080/11035897.2021.1907442

Li, L.-Q., Wang, Y.-D., Vajda, V., 2021. Palynofacies analysis for interpreting paleoenvironment and hydrocarbon potential of Triassic–Jurassic strata in the Sichuan Basin, China. Palaeoworld 30: 126–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.04.007

McLoughlin, S., Mays, C. & Vajda, V., 2021. Death and destruction 252 million years ago in the Sydney Basin. Australian Age of Dinosaurs Journal 18: 37–47.

McLoughlin, S., Nicoll, R.S, Crowley, J.L., Vajda, V., Mays, C., Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., Wheeler, A., Bocking, M., 2021. Age and paleoenvironmental significance of the Frazer Beach Member—a new lithostratigraphic unit overlying the end-Permian extinction horizon in the Sydney Basin, Australia. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 8, 600976. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.600976

McLoughlin, S., Vajda, V., Topper, T. P., Crowley , J. L., Liu, F., Johansson, O. & Skovsted, C. B., 2021. Trace fossils, algae, invertebrate remains and new U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology from the lower Cambrian Torneträsk Formation, northern Sweden. GFF, 143 (2-3): 103-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2021.1939775

Mays, C., McLoughlin, S., Frank, T.D., Fielding, C.R., Slater, S.M., Vajda, V., 2021. Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian extinction. Nature Communications 12, 5511. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25711-3

Mays, C., Vajda, V., McLoughlin, S., 2021. Permian–Triassic non-marine algae of Gondwana—distributions, natural affinities and ecological implications. Earth-Science Reviews 212: 102283. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103382

Peng, J., Slater, S.M., & Vajda, V. 2021. Megaspores from the Late Triassic‒Early Jurassic of southern Scandinavia: taxonomic and biostratigraphic implications. GFF 144 –145. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2021.1923060

Peng, J., Slater, S.M., & Vajda, V. 2021. A review of the Triassic pollen Staurosaccites: systematic and phytogeographical implications. Grana, https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2021.1944301

Shevchuk, O.A., McLoughlin, S. & Vajda, V. 2021. The first Cretaceous megaspores from Ukraine. Cretaceous Research 118, 104649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104649

Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., McLoughlin, S., Johansson, O., Liu, F. & Vajda, V. 2021. First discovery of Small Shelly Fossils and new occurrences of brachiopods and trilobites from the early Cambrian (Stage 4) of the Swedish Caledonides, Lappland. GFF. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2021.1895303

Slodownik, M., Vajda, V. & Steinthorsdottir, M., 2021. Fossil seed fern Lepidopteris ottonis from Sweden records increasing CO2 concentration during the end-Triassic extinction event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology XX, 110157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110157

Smith, V., Warny, S., Vellekoop, J., Vajda, V., Escarguel, G. & Jarzen, D.M., 2021. Palynology from ground zero of the Chicxulub impact, southern Gulf of Mexico. Palynology 45(2): 283–299. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2020.1813826

Vajda, V., Pucetaite, M. & Steinthorsdottir, M. 2021. Geochemical fingerprints of Ginkgoales across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary of Greenland. International Journal of Plant Sciences 182(7). https://doi.org/10.1086/715506

Vajda, V. & Skovsted, C. B., 2021. Advances in Swedish palaeontology; the importance of fossils in natural history collections - The Department of Palaeobiology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. GFF, 143 (2-3): 93-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2021.1968198

Yuan, Q., Barbolini, N., Ashworth, L., Rydin, C., Gao, D.-L., Shan, F.-S., Zhong, X.-Y., Vajda, V., 2021. Palaeoenvironmental changes in Eocene Tibetan lake systems traced by geochemistry, sedimentology and palynofacies. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 214, 104778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104778

2020

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2019

Antonelli, A., Eriksen, B., Hansson, E., Hilding-Rydevik, T., Karlsson, P., Krause, T., Källersjö, M., Lindberg, S., Persson, M., Rockström, J., Sigurdsson, H., Sköld, H., Sterner, T., Sundström, M., Sveide, J., Larsdotter Thiel, P., Vajda, V., Ölund, M., 2019. Sverige kan rädda Amazonas. Dagens Nyheter, 20190101.

Bermúdez, H.D., Arenillas, I., Arz, J.A., Vajda, V., Renne, P.R., Gilabert, V. & Rodríguez, J.V., 2019. The Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary deposits on Gorgonilla Island. In: Gómez, J. & Mateus–Zabala, D. (editors), The Geology of Colombia, Volume 3 Paleogene – Neogene. Servi­cio Geológico Colombiano, Publicaciones Geológicas Especiales 37, 19 p. Bogotá. https://doi.org/10.32685/pub.esp.37.2019.01

Fielding, C. R., Frank, T. D., McLoughlin, S., Vajda, V., Mays, C.,Tevyaw, A. P., Winguth, A., Winguth, C., Nicoll, R. S., Bocking, M. & James L. Crowley, J. L., 2019. Age and pattern of the southern high-latitude continental end-Permian extinction constrained by multiproxy analysis. Nature Communications 10: 385, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07934-z

Gulick, S, Bralower, T.J, Ormö, J. Hall, B., Grice, K., Schaefer, B., Lyons, S., Freeman, K.H., Morgan, J.V., Artemieva, N., Kaskes, P., De Graaff, S.J., Whalen, M.T, Collins, G.S., Tikoo, S.M., Verhagen, C., Christeson, G.L., Claeys, P., Coolen, M.J.L., Goderis, S., Goto, K., Grieve, R., McCall, N., Osinski, G.R., Rae, A.S.P., Riller, U., Smit, J., Vajda, V., & Wittmann, A., 2019. The first day of the Cenozoic, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 19342-1935. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909479116

Peng, J., Li, J., Slater, S. M., Zhang, Q., Zhu, H. and Vajda, V., 2019. Triassic vegetation and climate evolution on the northern margin of Gondwana: a palynological study from Tulong, southern Xizang (Tibet), China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.06.005

Qu, Y., McLoughlin, N., van Zuilen, M. A., Whitehouse, M., Engdahl, A. & Vajda, V. 2019. Evidence for molecular structural variations in the cytoarchitectures of a Jurassic plant. Geology 47: 325–329.

Qvarnström, M., Anagnostakis, S., Lindskog, A., Scheer, U., Vajda, V., Rasmussen, B.W., Lindgren, J., Eriksson, M.E., 2019. Multi‐proxy analyses of Late Cretaceous coprolites from Germany. Lethaia, 52(4): 550-569. DOI: 10.1111/let.12330

Rubinstein, C.V., & Vajda, V., 2019. Baltica cradle of early land plants? Oldest record of trilete spores and diverse cryptospore assemblages; evidence from Ordovician successions of Sweden, GFF, 141:3, 181-190, DOI: 10.1080/11035897.2019.1636860

Slater, S. M., Twitchett, R. J., Danise, S. & Vajda, V., 2019. Substantial vegetation response to Early Jurassic global warming with impacts on oceanic anoxia. Nature Geoscience (2019) | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0349-z

Steinthorsdottir, M., Vajda, V. & Pole, M., 2019. Significant transient pCO2 perturbation at the New Zealand Oligocene-Miocene transition recorded by fossil plant stomata. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 515: 152-161. Journal website

Steinthorsdottir, M., Vajda, V., Pole, M. & Holdgate, G., 2019. Moderate levels of Eocene pCO2 indicated by Southern Hemisphere fossil plant stomata. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G46274.1

Vajda, V., 2019. Det största utdöendet i jordens historia – fortfarande en gåta. Geologiskt Forum 102: 10-14.

2018

Bermúdez, H. D., Arenillas, I., Arz, J. A., Vajda, V., Renne, P. R., Gilabert, V., & Rodríguez, .V. 2018. The Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary deposits on Gorgonilla Island. In Tapias, J. G. et al (eds). The Geology of Colombia, Vol. 3 Paleogene-Neogene, 1–34.

Field, D. J., Bercovici, A., Berv, J. S., Dunn, R., Fastovsky, D. E., Lyson, T. R., Vajda, V., & Gauthier, J. A., 2018. Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction. Current Biology DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.062

Kustatscher, E., Ash, S.R., Karasev, E., Pott, C., Vajda, V., Yu, J. & McLoughlin, S., 2018. Flora of the Late Triassic. In: Tanner, L.H., ed., Late Triassic of the World. Earth in a Time of Transition. Topics in Geobiology 46, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 545–622. 10.1007/978-3-319-68009-5_13

Li, L.Q., Wang, Y.D., Vajda, V., & Liu, Z.S., 2018. Late Triassic ecosystem variations inferred by palynological records from Hechuan, southern Sichuan Basin, China. Geological Magazine, 155(8): 1793-1810. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756817000735

Peng, J., Li, J., Li, W., Slater, S.M., Zhu, H.& Vajda, V. 2018. The Triassic to Early Jurassic palynological record of the Tarim Basin, China. In S. M. Slater, E. Kustatscher & V. Vajda, (Eds.), Jurassic biodiversity and terrestrial environments. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 98(1). doi:10.1007/s12549-017-0279-y

Peng, J., Li, J., Slater, S. M., Li, W., Zhu, H. & Vajda, V. 2018. Triassic palynostratigraphy and palynofloral provinces: evidence from southern Xizang (Tibet), China. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 42: 67-86. doi:10.1080/03115518.2017.1370726 

Peng, J., Li, J., Slater, S. M., Zhang, Q., Zhu, H. and Vajda, V., 2018. Triassic vegetation and climate evolution on the northern margin of Gondwana: a palynological study from Tulong, southern Xizang (Tibet), China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.06.005

Renne, P. R., Arenillas, I., Arz, J. A., Vajda, V., Gilabert, V. & Bermúdez, H. D., 2018. Multi-proxy record of the Chicxulub impact at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary from Gorgonilla Island, Colombia. Geology doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G40224.1

Shevchuk, O., Slater, S. M., & Vajda, V. 2018. Palynology of Jurassic (Bathonian) sediments from Donbas, northeast Ukraine. In S. M. Slater, E. Kustatscher & V. Vajda, (Eds.), Jurassic biodiversity and terrestrial environments. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 98(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-017-0310-3

Slater, S. M., Kustatscher, E. & Vajda, V. (Eds). 2018. An introduction to Jurassic biodiversity and terrestrial environments. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 98(1).

Slater, S. M., Wellman, C. H., Romano, M. & Vajda, V. 2018. Dinosaur-plant interactions within a Middle Jurassic ecosystem palynology of the Burniston Bay dinosaur footprint locality, Yorkshire, UK. In S. M. Slater, E. Kustatscher & V. Vajda, (Eds.), Jurassic biodiversity and terrestrial environments. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 98(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-017-0309-9

2017

Cui, Y., Bercovici, A., Yu, J., Kump, L., Freeman, K., Su, S., Vajda, V., 2017. Carbon Cycle Perturbation Expressed in Terrestrial Permian-Triassic Boundary Sections in South China. Global and Planetary Change. 148: 272–285. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.10.018

Li, L., Wang, Y., Vajda, V. and Liu, Z., 2017. Late Triassic ecosystem variations inferred by palynological records from Hechuan, southern Sichuan Basin, China. Geological Magazine. Journal website

Qin, Y., Vajda, V., Li., Q-K, Shan, F-S., 2017. A late Eocene palynological record from the Nangqian Basin, Tibetan Plateau: Implications for stratigraphy and paleoclimate. Palaeoworld 26: 369–379. doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.10.003

Sha, J., Pan, Y., Gong, E. & Vajda, V., 2017. IGCP 632, The Jurassic–Cretaceous transition in North Eastern China (western Liaoning and Inner Mongolia): An IGCP meeting and field excursion on the continental Jurassic. Episodes 40(1): 79-84.

Slater, S. M., McKie, T., Vieira, M., Wellman, C. H. & Vajda, V., 2017. Episodic river flooding events revealed by palynological assemblages in Jurassic deposits of the Brent Group, North Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.06.028

Vajda, V., Pucetaite, M., McLoughlin, S., Engdahl, A., Heimdal, J., and Uvdal, P. 2017. Molecular signatures of fossil leaves provide unexpected new evidence for extinct plant relationships. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1: 1093-1099. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0224-5

2016

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

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, 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.

Peterffy, O., Calner, M. & Vajda, V., 2016. Early Jurassic cyanobacterial mats - a potential response to reduced biotic activity in the aftermath of the Triassic mass extinction event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 464:134–142. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.024

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.

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

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. doi.10.1144/SP434.16                                  

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

2015

Mehlqvist, K., Wigforss-Lange, J. & 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: 1–15.

Vajda, V., Ocampo, A., Ferrow, E. & 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: 1079–1088.doi:10.1016/j.gr.2014.05.009

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

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)

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

Sha, J., Olsen, P.E., Yanhong Pan, Y., Xu, D., Wang Y., Zhang, X. & 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.

Vajda, V., 2015. Mass-utdöenden. I Geobiosfären, Kapitel 8:15. Andreasson P.G. (ed). pp. 156–167.

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

2014

Vajda, V. & Bercovici, A., 2014. The global vegetation pattern across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass-extinction interval – an integrated global perspective. Global and Planetary Change 12:, 29–49.

Badawy, A.S., Mehlqvist, K, Vajda, V., Ahlberg, P. & Calner, M., 2014. Late Ordovician (Katian) spores in Sweden – oldest land plant remains from Baltica. GFF Scandinavian Journal of Earth Sciences 136: 16–21.

Bomfleur, B., McLoughlin, S. & Vajda, V. 2014. Fossilized nuclei and chromosomes reveal 180 million years of genomic stasis in Royal Ferns. Science 343: 1376–1377.

McLoughlin, S., Jansson, I.-M. & Vajda, V. 2014. Megaspore and microfossil assemblages reveal diverse herbaceous lycophytes in the Australian Early Jurassic flora. Grana 53: 22–53.

Mehlqvist, K., Larsson, K. & Vajda, V. 2014. Linking upper Silurian terrestrial and marine successions—Palynological study from Skåne, Sweden. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 202: 1–14.

Vajda, V. , McLoughlin, S. & Bomfleur, B. 2014. Fossilfyndet i Korsaröd. Geologiskt Forum82, 24–29.

McLoughlin, S., Bomfleur, B. & Vajda, V. , 2014. A phenomenal fossil fern – forgotten for 40 years. Deposits Magazine 40: 16–21.

2013

Vajda, V., Calner, M. & Ahlberg, A., 2013. Palynostratigraphy of dinosaur footprint-bearing deposits from the Triassic– Jurassic boundary interval of Sweden. GFF – A Scandinavian Journal of Earth Sciences 135: 120–130.

Vajda, V., Lyson, T.R., Bercovici, A., Doman, J.A. & Pearson, D.A., 2013. A snapshot into the terrestrial ecosystem of an exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of North Dakota, USA. Cretaceous Research 46: 114–122.

Vajda, V. 2013. Livets ursprung och liv i extrema miljöer.  i Dunér, D., (Redaktör). Extrema världar - Om sökandet efter liv i rymden, MediaTryck, Lund.

Vajda, V. & Wigforss-Lange, J., 2013. Spåren efter tsunamis. Geologiskt Forum79, 8–12.

McLoughlin, S. & Vajda, V. 2013. Ginkgo forests, sharks and tsunamis in the Swedish countryside. Deposits Magazine 33: 20–22.

2012

Vajda, V. & Bercovici A., 2012. Pollen and spore stratigraphy of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass-extinction interval in the Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Stratigraphy 36: 153–164.

Vajda, V. 2012. Fungi, a driving force in normalization of the terrestrial carbon cycle following the end-Cretaceous extinction. In Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations through Time. Talent, J.A., ed., Springer, Science, Dordrecht, 132–144.

Mehlqvist, K., Vajda, V. & Steemans, P., 2012. Early land plant spore assemblages from the Late Silurian of Skåne, Sweden. GFF 134: 133–144.

Bercovici, A., Vajda, V. & Sweet, A., 2012. Pollen and spore stratigraphy of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass-extinction interval in the Northern Hemisphere. Journal of Stratigraphy 36: 165–178.

Bercovici, A., Vajda, V. , Pearson, D.A., Villanueva-Amadoz, U. & Kline, D., 2012. Palynostratigraphy of John's Nose, a new Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary section in southwestern North Dakota, USA. Palynology 36: 36–47.

2011

Akikuni K., Hori R., Vajda V., Grant-Mackie J.A., Ikehara M., 2011. Stratigraphy of Triassic-Jurassic boundary sequences from the Kawhia coast and Awakino gorge, Murihiku Terrane, New Zealand. Stratigraphy 7: 7–24.

Ferrow, E., Vajda, V., Bender-Koch, K., Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B. & Willumsen, P., 2011. Multiproxy analysis of a new terrestrial and a marine Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary site from New Zealand. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75(2): 657-672.

Larsson, L., Dykjaer, K., Rasmussen, E.S, Piasecki, S., Utescher, T. & Vajda, V. 2011. Miocene climate evolution of northern Europe: A palynological investigation from Denmark. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 309: 161–175.

Sha, J., Vajda, V., Pan, Y., Larsson, L., Wang, Y., Cheng, X.J, Deng, S., Yao, X., Chen, S., Zhang, X. & Peng, B., 2011. The Stratigraphy of the Triassic−Jurassic boundary successions of the southern margin of Junggar Basin, northwestern China. Acta Geolologia Sinica 85: 421–436.

Wanntorp L, Vajda V. & Raine I., 2010. Unearthing Past Diversity of Proteaceae – A Paleobotanical Contribution from Campbell Island, New Zealand. Cretaceous Research 32: 357–367.

2010

Larsson, L., Vajda, V. & Dykjaer, K. (2010): Vegetation and climate change in the latest Oligocene-earliest Miocene in Jylland, Denmark. Miocene Climate change – palynological evidence from Scandinavia. Review of Palynology and Paleobotany 159: 166–176.

Schulte, P., Alegret, L., Arenillas, I., Arz, J.A., Barton, P.J., Bown, P.R., Bralower, T., Christeson, G., Claeys, P., Cockell, C., Collins, G., Deutsch, A., Goldin, T., Goto, K., Grajales-Nishimura, J.M., Grieve, R., Gulick, S., Johnson, K.R., Kiessling, W., Koeberl, C., Kring, D.A., MacLeod K.G., Matsui, T., Melosh, J., Montanari, A., Morgan, J., Neal, C., Norris, R.D., Pierazzo, E., Ravizza, G., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M., Reimold, W-U., Robin, E., Salge, T., Speijer, R.P., Sweet, A.R., Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., Vajda, V., Whalen, M.T. & Willumsen, P.S., 2010. The Chicxulub Impact and the Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary. Science 327: 1214–1218.

Schulte, P., Alegret, L., Arenillas, I., Arz, J.A., Barton, P.J., Bown, P.R., Bralower, T., Christeson, G., Claeys, P., Cockell, C., Collins, G., Deutsch, A., Goldin, T., Goto, K., Grajales-Nishimura, J.M., Grieve, R., Gulick, S., Johnson, K.R., Kiessling, W., Koeberl, C., Kring, D.A., MacLeod K.G., Matsui, T., Melosh, J., Montanari, A., Morgan, J., Neal, C., Norris, R.D., Pierazzo, E., Ravizza, G., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M., Reimold, W-U., Robin, E., Salge, T., Speijer, R.P., Sweet, A.R., Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., Vajda, V., Whalen, M.T., Willumsen, P.S., 2010. Response to Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes. Science 328: 975–976.

Akikuni, K., Hori, R., Vajda V., Grant-Mackie, J. & Ikehara, M., 2010. Stratigraphy of Triassic-Jurassic boundary sequences from the Kawhia coast and Awakino gorge, Murihiku Terrane, New Zealand. Stratigraphy 7: 7–24.

Vajda, V. & Raine, J.I., 2010. A palynological investigation of plesiosaur-bearing rocks from the Upper Cretaceous Tahora Formation, Mangahouanga, New Zealand. Alcheringa 34: 359–374.

Willumsen, P.S. & Vajda, V. 2010. A new early Paleocene dinoflagellate cyst species, Trithyrodinium partridgei: its biostratigraphic significance and palaeoecology Alcheringa 3: 523–538.

Vajda, V. & Larsson, L., 2010. Euro-Ages and geology in Sweden. European Geologist 30: 39–40.

Vajda, V., Larsson, L. & Frisk, Å., 2010. Livet reser sig efter ett kosmiskt nedslag. Populär Astronomi 1: 12–16.

2009

Pole, M. & Vajda, V. 2009. A new terrestrial Cretaceous-Paleogene site in New Zealand - turnover in macroflora confirmed by palynology. Cretaceous Research 30: 917–938.

Vajda, V. & Turner, S. 2009. The Jurassic: In the forefront of science outreach. GFF 131: 1–3.

Vajda, V. & Wigforss-Lange, J. 2009. Onshore Jurassic of Scandinavia and related areas. GFF 131: 5–23.

Mehlqvist, K., Vajda, V. & Larsson, L. 2009. An assemblage of a Middle Jurassic flora from Bornholm, Denmark – a study of a historic collection at Lund University, Sweden. GFF 131: 137–146.

Vajda, V., Larsson, L., Frisk, Å. 2009. Ekosystemen reser sig ur askan - livet efter asteroidnedslag på jorden. Populär Astronomi 1: 12–16.

Vajda, V. 2009. Toro-Toro; En paleontologisk pärla i Anderna, Geologiskt Forum 63: 20–23.

2008

Jansson, I.–M., McLoughlin, S. & Vajda, V. 2008. Early Jurassic annelid cocoons from eastern Australia. Alcheringa 32: 285–296.

Jansson, I.–M., McLoughlin, S., Vajda, V. & Pole, M., 2008. An Early Jurassic flora from the Clarence-Moreton Basin, Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 150: 5–21.

Vajda, V. 2008. Jurassic – climate and biodiversity. Episodes 31: 436–437.

Vajda, V. 2008. Effects of the Chicxulub asteroid impact on terrestrial ecosystems –palynology across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, New Zealand. SGU Rapport 2008/9, 5–6.

Vajda, V., Gravesen, P. & Willumsen, P., 2008. Mesozoic geology of Southern Scandinavia. Excursion Guide, IGC33, 29 pp.

Bergström, J., Kornfält, K.A. & Vajda, V. 2008. In memoriam: Leif Carserud. Geologiskt Forum 57: 56.

2007

Vajda, V. & McLoughlin, S., 2007. Extinction and recovery patterns of the vegetation across Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary — a tool for unravelling the causes of the end-Permian mass extinction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 144: 99–112.

Wigforss-Lange, J., Vajda, V. & Ocampo, A., 2007. Trace element concentrations in the Mexico-Belize ejecta layer: A link between the Chicxulub impact and the global Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 42: 1871–1882.

Coney, L., Reimold U., Hancox, P., Mader, D., Koeberl, ,C., McDonald, ,I., Struck, U., Vajda, V. & Kamo, S., 2007. Geochemical and mineralogical investigation of the Permian-Triassic Boundary in the Continental Realm of the Southern Karoo Basin, South Africa. Palaeoworld 16: 67–104.

Vajda, V. 2007. Expedition Campbell Island; Jakten efter krita-paleogengränsen Geologiskt Forum 56: 913.

Vajda, V., Calner M., Palmqvist E., Andersson A-K. 2007. How to promote geology in Sweden European Geologist 23: 34–35.

Vajda, V. & McLoughlin S., 2007. Wollemia det levande fossilet – nu på marknaden. Lustgården 61–70.

Calner, M., Vajda, V., McLoughlin S., 2007. Koldioxid, kosmisk strålning och Jordens globala klimat Geologiskt Forum 53: 16–18.

Vajda, V. 2007. Expedition Campbell Island; Jakten efter krita-paleogengränsen Geologiskt Forum 56: 9–13.

2006

Ocampo, A., Vajda, V. & Buffetaut, E., 2006. Unravelling the Cretaceous-Paleogene (KT) catastrophe: Evidence from flora fauna and geology. In Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events. Cockell, C., Koeberl, C. & Gilmour, I., eds, Springer –Verlag series, 203–227.

Larsson, L., Vajda, V. & Rasmussen, E., 2006. Early Miocene pollen and spores from Central Jylland, Denmark – environmental and climatic implications. GFF 128: 261–272.

Vajda, V. & Wigforss-Lange, J., 2006. The Jurassic-Cretaceous transition of Southern Sweden – palynological and sedimentological interpretation. Progress in Natural Science 16: 1–38.

Vajda, V. 2006. Marine and Non-marine Jurassic: Global correlation and major geological events. European Geologist21, 31.

Vajda, V. 2006. Bolivia – en geopolitisk krutdurk. Geologiskt Forum 52: 6–7.

Vajda, V. 2006. Marine and Non-marine Jurassic: Global correlation and major geological events. European Geologist 21: 31.

Vajda, V. 2006. Mass-utdöenden. I Geobiosfären 8:15. Andreasson P.G., ed. pp. 156–167.

McLoughlin, S. & Vajda, V. 2006. The Wollemi Pine and the fossil record. Australian Age of Dinosaurs4: 54-55.

2005

Vajda, V. & McLoughlin, S., 2005. A new Maastrichtian-Paleocene Azolla species from Bolivia, with a comparison of the global record of coeval Azolla microfossils. Alcheringa 29: 305–329.

McLoughlin, S. & Vajda, V., 2005. Ancient wollemi pines resurgent. American Scientist 93: 540–547.

Vajda, V. & McLoughlin S., 2005. Upptäckten av ett levande fossil –Wollemia. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift vol. 99, häfte 6: 295–302.

2004

Vajda, V. & McLoughlin, S., 2004. Fungal Proliferation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary. Science 303: 1489.

Vajda, V. 2004. Jakten på Kosmiska Massmördare. Populär Astronomi 4: 30–33.

Turnbull, I., Adams, C., Beavan P., Forsyth, P., Garnock-Jones, P.J., Hayward B.W., Raine J.I., Thorn. V., Vajda, V. 2004. Report on visit to Subantarctic Islands, March 2004 IGNS report 2004/09.

2003

Vajda, V. & Raine, I., 2003.  Pollen and spores in marine Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary sediments at mid-Waipara River, North Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 46: 255–273.

Vajda, V., Raine, I., Hollis, C. & Strong, P., 2003. Global effects of the Chicxulub asteroid impact on terrestrial vegetation – Review of the palynological record from New Zealand K-T boundary. In Impact Studies. Clayes, P., ed., Springer –Verlag series: 57–74.

2002-1998

Vajda, V., Raine, I.J & Hollis, C., 2001. Indication of Global deforestation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary by New Zealand Fernspike. Science 294: 1700–1702.

Vajda, V. 2001.Aalenian to Cenomanian palynofloras of SW Scania, Sweden Acta Paleontologica Polonica 46: 403–426.

Vajda, V. & Solakius, N., 1999. Palynomorphs, foraminifera and calcisphaeres from the greensand-limestone transition at Arnager, Bornholm: evidence for the late Cenomanian to early Coniacian transgression. GFF 12: 281–286.

Vajda V. 1999. Miospores from Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene strata in northwestern Bolivia. Palynology 23: 183–198.

Larsson, K., Solakius, N. & Vajda, V. 2000. Foraminifera and palynomorphs from the greensand-limestone sequences (Aptian-Coniacian) in southwestern Sweden. Geologische Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Paläontologie 216: 277–312.