The origins of colour patterns in fossil insects revealed by maturation experiments

S Wang, ME McNamara, B Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many fossil insects show monochromatic colour patterns that may provide valuable insights
into ancient insect behaviour and ecology. Whether these patterns reflect original …

Effects of chemical weathering on the exceptional preservation of mineralized insects from the Crato Formation, Cretaceous of Brazil: implications for late diagenesis …

FI Bezerra, JH da Silva, EVH Agressot… - Geological …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Many studies have improved our understanding of the mode of preservation at the Crato
fossil Lagerstätte. The high degree of preservation of the Crato mineralized insects is …

Links between ikaite morphology, recrystallised ikaite petrography and glendonite pseudomorphs determined from polar and deep-sea ikaite

BP Schultz, J Huggett, CV Ullmann, H Kassens… - Minerals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Petrography of recrystallised ikaite from Ocean Drilling Program material has been
presented previously from Nankai Trough and Congo (ex-Zaire) deep-sea fan. This paper …

Discovery of the puparia of a whitefly species found on Malvaceae in the Pliocene Rajdanda Formation, Jharkhand, Eastern India

J Drohojowska, GA Evans, MA Khan, T Hazra… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
A new genus and species of fossil whitefly, Praealeurolobus indicus gen. et sp. nov., is
described and illustrated based on puparia found on leaves of a malvaceous plant from the …

Paleontology in the 21st Century

MH Schweitzer - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
For much of its 300+ year history,“modern” paleontology has been a descriptive science,
firmly housed within geological sciences. The application of rigorous phylogenetic methods …

Morphological and organic spectroscopic studies of a 44-million-year-old leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in amber with endogenous remains of chitin

JL Mitchell, RC McKellar, M Barbi, IM Coulson… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This study details the quality of preservation of amber deposits in the Eocene. Through Baltic
amber crack-out studies using Synchrotron Micro-Computed Tomography and Scanning …

[PDF][PDF] PILOT STUDY USING FLUORESCENCE LIGHT MICROSCOPY TO IDENTIFY ARTHROPOD REMAINS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEDIMENTS

J Bradfield - South African Archaeological Bulletin, 2023 - researchgate.net
The study of arthropod remains from archaeological contexts has the potential to reveal
information about the past that may not necessarily be readily forthcoming from faunal …

A plea for a new synthesis: from twentieth-century paleobiology to twenty-first-century paleontology and back again

M Tamborini - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This article examines the relationship between twentieth-and twenty-first-
century paleobiology. After summarizing the disciplinary problem of paleontology in the mid …

[PDF][PDF] Plea for a New Synthesis: From Twentieth-Century Paleobiology to Twenty-First-Century Paleontology and Back Again. Biology 2022, 11, 1120

MA Tamborini - 2022 - researchgate.net
In this paper, I will briefly discuss the elements of novelty and continuity between twentieth-
century paleobiology and twenty-first-century paleontology. First, I will outline the heated …