An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods

SF Poropat, PR Bell, LJ Hart… - … Australasian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In 2020, the Australasian palaeontological association Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP)
joined the Australian government-supported Australian National Species List (auNSL) …

[HTML][HTML] Earliest known Gondwanan bird tracks: Wonthaggi Formation (Early Cretaceous), Victoria, Australia

AJ Martin, M Lowery, M Hall, P Vickers-Rich, TH Rich… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The fossil record for Cretaceous birds in Australia has been limited to rare skeletal material,
feathers, and two tracks, a paucity shared with other Gondwanan landmasses. Hence the …

Sediment-encased pressure–temperature maturation experiments elucidate the impact of diagenesis on melanin-based fossil color and its paleobiological …

A Roy, M Pittman, TG Kaye, ET Saitta - Paleobiology, 2023 - cambridge.org
Melanin pigments are central to colors and patterns in modern vertebrate integuments,
which inform upon ecological and behavioral strategies like crypsis, aposematism, and …

Downy feather fossils from the Lower Cretaceous of the Jiuquan Basin, Gansu Province, Northwest China

J Zhang, B Du, S Lin, J Peng, A Li, M Zhang, G Ma… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mesozoic feather fossils are well known for their exceptional preservation. However, the
scarcity of quantities and the lack of fine structural details preserved in carbonaceous fossils …

Description of natal down of the ostrich (Struthio camelus) and comparison with common quail (Coturnix coturnix): Developmental and evolutionary implications

CA Urban, LJ Legendre, JA Clarke - Journal of Anatomy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Natal down is a feather stage that differs in both form and function from the definitive feathers
of adult birds. It has a simpler structure that has been speculated to be similar to the body …

Fossil marsh beetle larvae (Scirtidae: Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Koonwarra Fossil Bed of Victoria, Australia

CHS Watts, H Hamon - Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The well-preserved fossils of larval Scirtidae (Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous
(middle to upper Aptian) Koonwarra Fossil Bed of South Gippsland in Victoria, Australia …