2013 – Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group

Research contributions: Science and Nature [2]

Murdock, D.J.E., Dong, X.-P., Repetski, J.E., Marone, F., Stampanoni, M., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2013. The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons. Nature 502, 546-549 (doi: 10.1038/nature12645).

Orlando, L., Ginolhac, A., Zhang, G., Froese, D., Albrechtsen, A., Stiller, M., Schubert, M., Cappellini, E., Petersen, B., Moltke, I., Johnson, P.L.F., Fumagalli, M., Vilstrup, J.T., Raghavan, M., Korneliussen, T., Malaspinas, A.-S., Vogt, J., Szklarczyk, D., Kelstrup, C.D., Vinther, J., Dolocan, A., Stenderup, J., Velazquez, A.M.V., Cahill, J., Rasmussen, M., Wang, X., Min, J, Zazula, G.D., Seguin-Orlando, A., Mortensen, C., Magnussen, K., Thompson, J.F., Weinstock, J., Gregersen, K., Roed, K.H., Eisenmann, V., Rubin, C.J., Miller, D.C., Antczak, D.F., Bertelsen, M.F., Brunak, S., Al-Rasheid, K.A.S., Ryder, O., Andersson, L., Mundy, J., Krogh, A., Gilbert, M.T.P., Kjaer, K., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Jensen, L.J., Olsen, J.V., Hofreiter, M., Nielsen, R., Shapiro, B., Wang, J., and Willerslev, E. 2013. Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse. Nature 499, 74-78 74-78 (doi: 10.1038/nature12323).

Research contributions: high-rank journals (IF > 9) [7]

Dyke, G.J., de Kat, R., Palmer, C., van der Kindere, J., Naish, D., and Ganapathisubramani, B. 2013. Aerodynamic performance of the feathered dinosaur Microraptor and the evolution of feathered flight. Nature Communications 4, 2489 (doi: 10.1038/ncomms3489).

Foster, L.C., Schmidt, D.N., Thomas, E., Arndt, S., and Ridgwell, A. 2013. Surviving rapid climate change in the deep sea during the Paleogene hyperthermals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 110, 9273-9276 (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1300579110).

Knell, R.J., Naish, D., Tomkins, J.L., and Hone, D.W.E. 2013. Sexual selection in prehistoric animals: detection and implications. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28, 38-47 (doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2012.07.015).

Ometto, L., Cestaro, A., Ramasamy, S., Grassi, A., Revadi, S., Siozios, S., Moretto, M., Fontana, P., Varotto, C., Pisani, D., Dekker, T., Wrobel, N., Viola, R., Pertot, I., Cavalieri, D., Blaxter, M., Anfora, G., and Rota-Stabelli, O. 2013. Linking genomics and ecology to investigate the complex evolution of an invasive Drosophila pest. Genome Biology and Evolution 5, 745-757 (doi: 10.1093/gbe/evt034).

Rota-Stabelli, O., Daley, A.C., and Pisani, D. 2013. Molecular timetrees reveal a Cambrian colonization of land and a new scenario for ecdysozoan evolution. Current Biology 23, 392-398 (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.01.026).

Schirrmeister, B.E., de Vos, J.M., Antonelli, A., and Bagheri, H.C. 2013. Evolution of multicellularity coincided with increased diversification of cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 110, 1791-1796 (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1209927110).

Zhao, Q., Benton, M.J., Sullivan, C., Sander, P.M., and Xu, X. 2013. Histology and postural change during the growth of the ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis. Nature Communications 4, 2079 (doi: 10.1038/ncomms3079).

Research contributions: others [84]

Antcliffe, J.B. 2013. Questioning the evidence of organic compounds called sponge biomarkers. Palaeontology 56, 917-925 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12030).

Antcliffe, J.B. and Hancy, A.D. 2013. Critical questions about early character acquisition-Comment on Retallack 2012: “Some Ediacaran fossils lived on land”. Evolution & Development 15, 225-227 (doi: 10.1111/ede.12040).

Antcliffe, J.B. and Hancy, A.D. 2013. Reply to Retallack (2013): Ediacaran characters. Evolution & Development 15, 389-392 (doi: 10.1111/ede.12048).

Badger, M.P.S., Schmidt, D.N., Mackensen, A., and Pancost, R.D. 2013. High resolution alkenone palaeobarometry indicates relatively stable pCO₂ during the Pliocene (3.3 to 2.8 Ma). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A371, 20130094 (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0094).

Benson, R.B.J., Evans, M., Smith, A.S., Sassoon, J., Moore-Faye, S., Ketchum, H.F., and Forrest, R. 2013. A giant pliosaurid skull from the Late Jurassic of England. PLoS ONE 8(5), e65989 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065989).

Benton, M.J. 2013. Origins of biodiversity. Palaeontology 56, 1-7 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12012).

Benton, M.J. 2013. No gap in the Middle Permian record of terrestrial vertebrates: REPLY. Geology 41, e294 (doi: 10.1130/G34595Y.1).

Benton, M.J., Ruta, M., Dunhill, A.M., and Sakamoto, M. 2013. The first half of tetrapod evolution, sampling proxies, and fossil record quality. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 372, 18-41 (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.09.005).

Benton, M.J., Zhang, Q.Y., Hu, S.X,, Chen, Z.Q., Wen, W., Liu, J., Huang, J.Y., Zhou, C.Y., Xie, T., Tong, J.N., and Choo, B. 2013. Exceptional vertebrate biotas from the Triassic of China, and the expansion of marine ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction. Earth-Science Reviews 123, 199-243 (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.05.014).

Brasier, M.D., McIlroy, D., Liu, A.G., Antcliffe, J.B., and Menon, L.R. 2013. The oldest evidence of bioturbation on Earth. Comment. Geology 41, E289 (doi: 10.1130/G33606C.1).

Broadgate, W., Riebesell, U., Armstrong, C., Brewer, P., Denman, K., Feely, R., Gao, K.S., Gattusco, J.-P., Isensee, K., Kleypas, J., Laffoley, D., Orr, J., Pörtner, H.-O., Rezende, C.E.de, Schmidt, D.N., Urban, E., Waite, A., and Valdéz. 2013. Ocean acidification summary for policymakers. In: Broadgate, W., Gaffney, O., Isensee, K., Riebesell, U., Urban, E., Valdés, L. (Eds.) Third Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO₂ World, Stockholm, Sweden, 26 pp. Download report here.

Chan, N.J., Dyke, G.J., and Benton, M.J. 2013. Primary feather lengths may not be important for inferring the flight styles of Mesozoic birds. Lethaia 46, 146-153 (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2012.00325.x).

Cobley, M.J., Rayfield, E.J., and Barrett, P.M. 2013. Inter-vertebral flexibility of the ostrich neck: implications for estimating sauropod neck flexibility. PLoS ONE 8(8), e72187 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072187).

Couce, E., Irvine, P.J., Gregorie, L.J., Ridgwell, A., and Hendy, E.J. 2013. Tropical coral reef habitat in a geoengineered, high-CO₂ world. Geophysical Research Letters 40, 1799-1804 (doi: 10.1002/grl.50340).

Couce, E., Ridgwell, A., and Hendy, E.J. 2013. Future habitat suitability for coral reef ecosystems under global warming and ocean acidification. Global Change Biology 19, 3592-3606 (doi: 10.1111/gcb.12335).

Cuff, A.R. and Rayfield, E.J. 2013. Feeding mechanics in spinosaurid theropods and extant crocodilians. PLoS ONE8(5), e65295 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065295).

Daley, A.C., Budd, G.E., and Caron, J.B. 2013. Morphology and systematics of the anomalocaridid arthropod Hurdiafrom the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia and Utah. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11, 743-787 (doi: 10.1080/14772019.2012.732723).

Daley, A.C., Paterson, J.R., Edgecombe, G.D., Garcia-Bellido, D.C., and Jago, J.B. 2013. New anatomical information on Anomalocaris from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of South Australia and a reassessment of its inferred predatory habits. Palaeontology 56, 971-990 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12029).

Davis, C.V., Badger, M.P.S., Bown, P.R., and Schmidt, D.N. 2013. The response of calcifying plankton to climate change in the Pliocene. Biogeosciences 10, 6131-6139 (doi: 10.5194/bg-10-6131-2013).

De Baets, K., Klug, C., and Monnet, C. 2013. Intraspecific variability through ontogeny in early ammonoids. Paleobiology 39, 75-94 (doi: 10.5061/dryad.k9b14).

Demarchi, B., Collins, M.J., Tomiak, P.J., Davies, B.J., and Penkman, K.E.H. 2013. Intra-crystalline protein diagenesis (IcPD) in Patella vulgata. Part II: Breakdown and temperature sensitivity. Quaternary Geochronology 16, 158-172 (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.08.001).

Dong, X.-P., Cunningham, J.A., Bengtson, S., Thomas, C.-W., Liu, J.-B., Stampanoni, M., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2013. Embryos, polyps and medusa of the early Cambrian scyphozoan Olivooides. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280, 20130071 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0071).

Donovan, S.K., Baalbergen, E., Ouwendijk, M., Paul, C.R.C., and Van Den Hoek Ostende, L.W. 2013. Review and prospectus of the Late Pleistocene fauna of the Red Hills Road Cave, Jamaica. Cave and Karst Science 40, 79-86.

Donovan, S.K. and Paul, C.R.C. 2013. Late Pleistocene land snails from ‘red bed’ deposits, Round Hill, south central Jamaica. Alcheringa 37, 273-284 (doi: 10.1080/03115518.2013.743705).

Dunhill, A.M., Benton, M.J., Newell, A.J., and Twitchett, R.J. 2013. Completeness of the fossil record and the validity of sampling proxies: a case study from the Triassic of England and Wales. Journal of the Geological Society 170, 291-300 (doi: 10.1144/jgs2012-025).

Dunkley Jones, T., Lunt, D.J., Schmidt, D.N., Ridgwell, A., Sluijs, A., Valdes, P.J., and Maslin, M. 2013. Climate model and proxy data constraints on ocean warming across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Earth-Science Reviews 125, 123-145 (doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.07.004).

Fang, H., Oates, M., Pethica, R., Greenwood, J., Sardar, A., Rackham, O., Donoghue, P.C.J., Stamatakis, A., de Lima Morais, D. A., and Gough, J. 2013. A daily-updated tree of (sequenced) life as a reference for genome research. Scientific Reports 3, 2015, 1-10 (doi: 10.1038/srep02015).

Field, D.J., D’Alba, L., Vinther, J., Webb, S.M., Gearty, W. and Shawkey, M.D. 2013. Melanin concentration gradients in modern and fossil feathers. PloS ONE 8(3), e59451 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059451).

Fischer, V., Appleby, R.M., Naish, D., Liston, J., Riding, J.B., Brindley, S., and Godefroit, P. 2013. A basal thunnosaurian from Iraq reveals disparate phylogenetic origins for Cretaceous ichthyosaurs. Biology Letters 9, 20130021 (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0021).

Galazzo, F.B., Giusberti, L., Luciani, V., and Thomas, E. 2013. Paleoenvironmental changes during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) and its aftermath: The benthic foraminiferal record from the Alano section (NE Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 378, 22-35 (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.03.018).

Giles, S., Rücklin, M., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2013. The histology of ‘placoderm’ dermal skeletons: implications for the nature of the ancestral gnathostome. Journal of Morphology 274, 627-644 (doi: 10.1002/jmor.20119).

Hendry, K.R. and Andersen, M.B. 2013. The zinc isotopic composition of siliceous marine sponges: Investigating nature’s sediment traps. Chemical Geology 354, 33-41 (doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.06.025).

Henehan, M.J., Rae, J.W.B., Foster, G.L., Erez, J., Prentice, K.C., Kucera, M., Bostock, H.C., Martinez-Boti, M.A., Milton, J.A., Wilson, P.A., Marshall, B.J., and Elliott, T. 2013. Calibration of the boron isotope proxy in the planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber for use in palaeo-CO₂ reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 364, 111-122 (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.029).

Hill, M.S., Hill, A.L., Lopez, J., Peterson, K.J., Pomponi, S., Diaz, M.C., Thacker, R.W., Adamska, M., Boury-Esnault, N., Cardenas, P., Chaves-Fonnegra, A., Danka, E., De Laine, B.O., Formica, D., Hajdu, E., Lobo-Hajdu, G., Klontz, S., Morrow, C.C., Patel, J., Picton, B., Pisani, D., Pohlmann, D., Redmond, N.E., Reed, J., Richey, S., Riesgo, A., Rubin, E., Russell, Z., Rutzler, K., Sperling, E.A., di Stefano, M., Tarver, J.E., and Collins, A.G. 2013. Reconstruction of family-level phylogenetic relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) using nuclear encoded housekeeping genes. PLoS ONE 8(1), e50437 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050437).

Huang, J., Feldmann, R.M., Schweitzer, C.E., Hu, S.H., Zhou, C.Y., Benton, M.J., Zhang, Q.Y., Wen, W., and Xie, T. 2013. A new shrimp (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, Southwest China. Journal of Paleontology 87, 603-611 (doi: 10.1666/13-024).

Joyce, W.G., Parham, J.F., Lyson, T.R., Warnock, R.C.M., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2013. A divergence dating analysis of turtles using fossil calibrations: an example of best practices. Journal of Paleontology 87, 612-634 (doi: 10.1666/12-149).

Klug, S. and Kriwet, J. 2013. An offshore fish assemblage (Elasmobranchii, Actinopterygii) from the Late Jurassic of NE Spain. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 87, 235-257 (doi: 10.1007/s12542-012-0156-y).

Klug, S. and Kriwet, J. 2013. Node age estimations and the origin of angel sharks, Squatiniformes (Neoselachii, Squalomorphii). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11, 91-110 (doi: 10.1080/14772019.2012.674066).

Lautenschlager, S. 2013. Cranial myology and bite force performance of Erlikosaurus andrewsi: a novel approach for digital muscle reconstructions. Journal of Anatomy 222, 260-272 (doi: 10.1111/joa.12000).

Lautenschlager, S. and Huebner, T. 2013. Ontogenetic trajectories in the ornithischian endocranium. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26, 2044-2050 (doi: 10.1111/jeb.12181).

Lefebvre, B., Sumrall, C.D., Shroat-Lewis, R.A., Reich, M., Webster, G.D., Hunter, A.W., Nardin, E., Rozhnov, S.V., Guensburg, T.E., Touzeau, A., Noailles, F., and Sprinkle, J. 2013. Palaeobiogeography of Ordovician echinoderms. Geological Society Memoir 38, 173-198 (doi: 10.1144/M38.14).

Liu, J., Motani, R., Jiang, D.Y., Hu, S.X., Aitchison, J.C., Rieppel, O., Benton, M.J., Zhang, Q.Y., and Zhou, C.Y. 2013. The first specimen of the Middle Triassic Phalarodon atavus (Ichthyosauria: Mixosauridae) from South China, showing postcranial anatomy and peri-Tethyan distribution. Palaeontology 56, 849-866 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12021).

Luo, M., Chen, Z.Q., Hu, S., Zhang, Q.Y., Benton, M.J., Zhou, C.Y., Wen, W., and Huang, J.Y. 2013. Carbonate reticulated ridge structures from the Lower Middle Triassic of the Luoping area, Yunnan, southwestern China: geobiologic features and implications for exceptional preservation of the Luoping biota. Palaios 28, 541-551 (doi: 10.2110/palo.2012.p12-122r).

Marchetti, L., Bernardi, M., and Avanzini, M. 2015. Nuove osservazioni su alcune piste ben conservate di Amphisauropus ed Erpetopus dal bacino di Collio orientale (Trentino Alto-Adige, NE Italia). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 52, 55-62 (doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2013.10).

Marriott, S.B., Hillier, R.D., Morrissey, L.B. 2013. Enigmatic sedimentary structures in the Lower Old Red Sandstone, south Wales, UK: possible microbial influence on surface processes and early terrestrial food webs. Geological Magazine 150, 396-411 (doi: 10.1017/S0016756812000507).

Martin, J.E. 2013. Surviving a potentially lethal injury? Bite mark and associated trauma in the vertebra of a dyrosaurid crocodilian. Palaios 28, 6-8 (doi: 10.2110/palo.2012.p12-068r).

Martin, J.E. and Vincent, P. 2013. New remains of Machimosaurus hugii von Meyer, 1837 (Crocodilia, Thalattosuchia) from the Kimmeridgian of Germany. Fossil Record 16, 179-196 (doi: 10.1002/mmng.201300009).

McNamara, M.E. 2013. The taphonomy of colour in fossil insects and feathers. Palaeontology 56, 557-575 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12044).

McNamara, M.E., Briggs, D.E.G., Orr, P.J., Gupta, N.S., Locatelli, E.R., Qiu, L., Yang, H., Wang, Z.R., Noh, H., and Cao, H. 2013. The fossil record of insect color illuminated by maturation experiments. Geology 41, 487-490 (doi: 10.1130/G33836.1).

Morgan, C.C., Foster, P.G., Webb, A.E., Pisani, D., McInerney, J.O., and O’Connell, M.J. 2013. Heterogeneous models place the root of the placental mammal phylogeny. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30, 2145-2156 (doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst117).

Murdock, D.J., Sansom, I.J., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2013. Cutting the first ‘teeth’ – a new approach to functional analysis of conodont elements. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280, 20131524 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1524).

Ortega-Hernández, J., Legg, D.A., and Braddy, S.J. 2013. The phylogeny of aglaspidid arthropods and the internal relationships within Artiopoda. Cladistics 29, 15-45 (doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00413.x).

Perri, E., Tucker, M.E., and Mawson, M. 2013. Biotic and abiotic processes in the formation and diagenesis of Permian dolomitic stromatolites. Journal of Sedimentary Research 83, 896-914 (doi: 10.2110/jsr.2013.65).

Petrovic, M.D., Vasiljevic, D.A., Vujicic, M.D., Hose, T.A., Markovic, S.B., and Lukic, T. 2013. Global geopark and candidate – comparative analysis of Papuk Mountain Geopark (Croatia) and Fruska Gora Mountain (Serbia) by using GAM model. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences 8, 105-116.

Pino, M., Chavez-Hoffmeister, M., Navarro-Harris, X., and Labarca, R. 2013. The late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Osorno, south-central Chile. Quaternary International 299, 3-12 (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.001).

Pisani, D., Carton, R., Campbell, L.I., Akanni, W.A., Mulville, E., Rota-Stabelli, O. 2013. An overview of arthropod genomics, mitogenomics, and the evolutionary origins of the arthropod proteome. In: Minelli, A., Fusco, G., and Boxshall, G. (eds), Arthropod Biology and Evolution: Molecules, Development, Morphology, pp. 41-61. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-36160-9_3).

Porro, L.B., Metzger, K.A., Iriarte-Diaz, J., and Ross, C.F. 2013. In vivo bone strain and finite element modeling of the mandible of Alligator mississippiensis. Journal of Anatomy 223, 195-227 (doi: 10.1111/joa.12080).

Purnell, M.A., Crumpton, N., Gill, P.G., Jones, G., and Rayfield, E.J. 2013. Within-guild dietary discrimination from 3-D textural analysis of tooth microwear in insectivorous mammals. Journal of Zoology 291, 249-257 (doi: 10.1111/jzo.12068).

Ragazzola, F., Foster, L.C., Form, A.U., Buescher, J., Hansteen, T.H., and Fietzke, J. 2013. Phenotypic plasticity of coralline algae in a High CO₂ world. Ecology and Evolution 3, 3436-3446 (doi: 10.1002/ece3.723).

Rota-Stabelli, O., Lartillot, N., Philippe, H., and Pisani, D. 2013. Serine codon-usage bias in deep phylogenomics: pancrustacean relationships as a case study. Systematic Biology 62, 121-133 (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/sys077).

Ruta, M., Angielczyk, K.D., Fröbisch, J., and Benton, M.J. 2013. Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280, 20131071 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1071).

Ruta, M., Botha-Brink, J., Mitchell, S.A., and Benton, M.J. 2013. The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280: 20131865 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1865).

Schmidt, D.N., Rayfield, E.J., Cocking, A., and Marone, F. 2013. Linking evolution and development: synchrotron radiation X-ray tomographic microscopy of planktic foraminifers. Palaeontology 56, 741-749 (doi: 10.1111/pala.12013).

Schulp, A.S., Schouten, R., Metten, L., Van De Sande, A., and Bontenbal, A. 2013. Tracking consolidant penetration into fossil bone using neutron radiography. Geologie en Mijnbouw 92, 177-180

Slowakiewicz, M., Tucker, M.E., Pancost, R.D., Perri, E. and Mawson, M. 2013. Upper Permian (Zechstein) microbialites: Supratidal through deep subtidal deposition, source rock, and reservoir potential. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 97, 1921-1936 (doi: 10.1306/06181312179).

Solarska, A., Hose, T.A., Vasiljevic, D.A., Mroczek, P., Jary, Z., Markovic, S.B., and Widawski, K. 2013. Geodiversity of the loess regions in Poland: Inventory, geoconservation issues, and geotourism potential. Quaternary International 296, 68-81 (doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.2057).

Stubbs, T.L., Pierce, S.E., Rayfield, E.J., and Anderson, P.S. 2013. Morphological and biomechanical disparity of crocodile-line archosaurs following the end-Triassic extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280, 20131940 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1940).

Suan, G., Rulleau, L., Mattioli, E., Sucheras-Marx, B., Rousselle, B., Pittet, B., Vincent, P., Martin, J.E., Lena, A., Spangenberg, J.E., and Foellmi, K.B. 2013. Palaeoenvironmental significance of Toarcian black shales and event deposits from southern Beaujolais, France. Geological Magazine 150, 728-742 (doi: 10.1017/S0016756812000970).

Tarver, J.E., Sperling, E.A., Nailor, A., Heimberg, A.M., Robinson, J.M., King, B.L., Pisani, D., Donoghue, P.C.J., and Peterson, K.J. 2013. miRNAs: small genes with big potential in metazoan phylogenetics. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30, 2369-2382 (doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst133).

Taylor, M.P. and Wedel, M.J. 2013. Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks. PeerJ 1, e36 (doi: 10.7717/peerj.36).

Taylor, M.P. and Wedel, M. 2013. The effect of intervertebral cartilage on neutral posture and range of motion in the necks of sauropod dinosaurs. PLoS One 8, e78214 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078214).

Tomiak, P.J., Penkman, K.E.H., Hendy, E.J., Demarchi, B., Murrells, S., Davis, S.A., McCullagh, P., and Collins, M.J. 2013. Testing the limitations of artificial protein degradation kinetics using known-age massive Porites coral skeletons. Quaternary Geochronology 16, 87-109 (doi: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.07.001).

Viegas, P.A.A. and Clapham, C.E. 2013. Custom-made tool for cutting large quantities of standard size padding – Bristol Dinosaur Project. The Geological Curator 9, 429-432.

Vincent, P., Martin, J.E., Fischer, V., Suan, G., Khalloufi, B., Sucheras-Marx, B., Lena, A., Janneau, K., Rousselle, B., and Rulleau, L. 2013. Marine vertebrate remains from the Toarcian-Aalenian succession of southern Beaujolais, Rhone, France. Geological Magazine 150, 822-834 (doi: 10.1017/S0016756812000982).

Vitek, N.S., Vinther, J., Schiffbauer, J.D., Briggs, D.E.G., and Prum, R.O. 2013. Exceptional three-dimensional preservation and coloration of an originally iridescent fossil feather from the Middle Eocene Messel Oil Shale. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 87, 493-503 (doi: 10.1007/s12542-013-0173-5).

Wedel, M. and Taylor, M.P. 2013. Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitanand Apatosaurus. PLoS One 8, e78213 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078213).

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