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Abdala, F., Norton, L.A., Jasinoski, S.C., Botha, J., Fernandez, V., Rubidge, B., Gill, P.G., and Martinelli, A. G. 2023. On taxonomic issues, ontogenetic series and tooth replacement. Comments on Diphyodont tooth replacement of Brasilodon – A late Triassic eucynodont that challenges the time of origin of mammals by Cabreira et al. Journal of Anatomy 242, 737-742. https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13756
Ballell, A., Mai, B. and Benton, M.J. 2023. Divergent strategies in cranial biomechanics and feeding ecology of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 13, 18242. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45444-1
Barrett, R., Adebowale, M., Birch, H., Wilson, J.D. and Schmidt, D.N. 2023. Planktic foraminiferal resilience to environmental change associated with the PETM. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38, e2022PA004534. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004534
Berks, H.O., Lunde Nielsen, M., Flannery‐Sutherland, J., Thorshøj Nielsen, A., Park, T.Y.S. and Vinther, J. 2023. A possibly deep branching artiopodan arthropod from the lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (North Greenland). Papers in Palaeontology 9, e1495. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1495
Bowles, A.M.C., Williamson, C.J., Williams, T.A., Lenton, T.M., and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2023. The origin and early evolution of plants. Trends in Plant Science 28, 312-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2022.09.009
Brachert, T.C., Agnini, C., Gagnaison, C., Gély, J.P., Henehan, M.J. and Westerhold, T., 2023. Astronomical pacing of middle Eocene sea-level fluctuations: inferences from shallow‐water carbonate ramp deposits. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38, e2023PA004633. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004633
Brombacher, A., Schmidt, D.N. and Ezard, T.H. 2023. Developmental plasticity in deep time: a window to population ecological inference. Paleobiology 49, 259-270. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2022.26
Button, D.J., Porro, L.B., Lautenschlager, S., Jones, M.E.H., and Barrett, P.M. 2023. Multiple pathways to herbivory underpinned deep divergences in ornithischian evolution. Current Biology 33, 557–565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.019
Button, D.J. and Zanno, L.E., 2023. Neuroanatomy of the late Cretaceous Thescelosaurus neglectus (Neornithischia: Thescelosauridae) reveals novel ecological specialisations within Dinosauria. Scientific Reports 13, 19224. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45658-3
Capel, E., Cleal, C. J., Servais, T., and Cascales-Miñana, B. 2023. New insights into Silurian–Devonian palaeophytogeography. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 613, 111393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111393
Capel, E., Monnet, C., Cleal, C.J., Xue, J., Servais, T. and Cascales‐Miñana, B. 2023. The effect of geological biases on our perception of early land plant radiation. Palaeontology 66, e12644. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12644
Carlisle, E., Janis, C.M., Pisani, D., Donoghue, P.C. and Silvestro, D., 2023. A timescale for placental mammal diversification based on Bayesian modeling of the fossil record. Current Biology, 33, 3073-3082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.06.016
Casanovas-Vilar, I., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Janis, C.M., and Saarinen, J. 2023. Introduction: then, NOW and beyond. In Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals (pp. 7-32). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_2
Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) Consortium*†, Hönisch, B., Royer, D.L., Breecker, D.O., Polissar, P.J., Bowen, G.J., Henehan, M.J., Cui, Y., Steinthorsdottir, M., McElwain, J.C. and Kohn, M.J. 2023. Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2. Science 382, eadi5177. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi5177
Chen, Y., Luo, M., Benton, M.J., Hu, S., Zhang, Q., Ji, C., Huang, J., Kou, Q., Zhou, C. and Wen, W. 2023. Crustacean microcoprolites from the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota, China: Evidence for primary producers in the first Modern-type marine ecosystems. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 632, 111840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111840
Chiarenza, A.A., Waterson, A.M., Schmidt, D.N., Valdes, P.J., Yesson, C., Holroyd, P.A., Collinson, M.E., Farnsworth, A., Nicholsob, D.B., and Barrett, P.M. 2023. 100 million years of turtle paleoniche dynamics enable the prediction of latitudinal range shifts in a warming world. Current Biology 33, 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.056
Clark, J.W. and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2023. Constraining whole genome duplication events in geological time. Methods in Molecular Biology 2545, 139-154. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2561-3_7
Clark, J.W., Hetherington, A.J., Morris, J.L., Pressel, S., Duckett, J.G., Puttick, M.N., Schneider, H., Kenrick, P., Wellman, C.H. and Donoghue, P.C. 2023. Evolution of phenotypic disparity in the plant kingdom. Nature Plants, 9, 1618-1626. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01513-x
Cleal, C.J. and Thomas, B.A. 2023. Taxonomy and nomenclature of Sphenopteris and allied fossil‐genera of Carboniferous seed‐plant fronds. Taxon 72, 862-879. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12938
Coram, R.A. and Radley, J.D. 2023. The Carnian Pluvial Episode: A damp squib for life on land?. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 134, 551-561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.07.002
Correia, P., Pereira, S., Šimůnek, Z. and Cleal, C.J. 2023. Florinanthus bussacensis sp. nov., a new cordaitalean cone from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Portugal. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 316, 104942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.104942
Couce, E., Cowburn, B., Clare, D. and Bluemel, J.K., 2023. Paris Agreement could prevent regional mass extinctions of coral species. Global Change Biology 29, 3794-3805. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16690
Coules, V.J. and Benton, M.J. 2023. The curious case of Central Park’s dinosaurs: The destruction of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins’ Paleozoic Museum revisited. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 134, 344-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.04.004
Croudace, A.D., Shen, C., Lü, J., Brusatte, S.L. and Vinther, J. 2023. Iridescent plumage in a juvenile dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68, 213–225. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01004.2022
Davis, P.D., Howe, P., Paul, C.R.C. and Salmon, H. 2023. A nautiloid with ventral bitemarks from the Charmouth Mudstone Formation (Lower Jurassic) near Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 134, 322-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.04.002
De Jaime-Soguero, C., Mujal, E., Oms, O., Bolet, A., Dinarès-Turell, J., Ibáñez-Insa, J. and Fortuny, J. 2023. Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a lower to middle Permian terrestrial composite succession from the Catalan Pyrenees: Implications for the evolution of tetrapod ecosystems in equatorial Pangaea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 632, 111837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111837
Donoghue, P.C., Kay, C., Spang, A., Szöllősi, G., Nenarokova, A., Moody, E.R., Pisani, D. and Williams, T.A. 2023. Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis. Current Biology, 33, R919-R929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.048
Ercoli, M.D., Álvarez, A., Warburton, N.M., Janis, C.M., Potapova, E.G., Herring, S.W., Cassini, G.H., Tarquini, J. and Kuznetsov, A. 2023. Myology of the masticatory apparatus of herbivorous mammals and a novel classification for a better understanding of herbivore diversity. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198, 1106-1155. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac102
Fang, Z.C., Li, J.L., Yan, C.B., Zou, Y.R., Tian, L., Zhao, B., Benton, M.J., Cheng, L., and Lai, X.L. 2023. First filter feeding in the Early Triassic: cranial morphological convergence between Hupehsuchus and baleen whales. BMC Ecology and Evolution 23, 36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02143-9
Ferrón, H.G. 2023. Illuminating the evolution of bioluminescence in sharks. Palaeontology 66, e12641. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12641
Flannery-Sutherland, J.T., Kogan, I., Trubin, Y.S., Falkingham, P.L., Winkler, A., De Sousa, D.D., Krylov, K.D., Pokhaznikova, A.A., Derbisheva, M., Kapitany, T. and Dudashvili, A. 2023. Dinosaur trackways from the Upper Cretaceous Nichkesai Formation near Mayluu Suu City, Southern Tien Shan Mountains, north-western Kyrgyzstan. Royal Society Open Science 10, 230311. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230311
Fortelius, M., Agustí, J., Bernor, R.L., de Bruijn, H., van Dam, J.A., Damuth, J., Eronen, J.T., Evans, G., van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Janis, C.M. and Jernvall, J. 2023. The origin and early history of NOW as it happened. In Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals (pp. 7-32). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_2
Foster, W.J., Allen, B.J., Kitzmann, N.H., Münchmeyer, J., Rettelbach, T., Witts, J.D., Whittle, R.J., Larina, E., Clapham, M.E. and Dunhill, A.M. 2023. How predictable are mass extinction events? Royal Society Open Science 10, p.221507. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221507
Frojdová, J.V., Bek, J., Cleal, C.J., Pšenička, J., & Opluštil, S. 2023. Revision of the Pennsylvanian fern Senftenbergia elegans Corda from the Duckmantian of the Intra Sudetic Basin, Czech Republic. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 309, 104822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104822
Gai, Z., Lin, X., Shan, X., Ferrón, H.G. and Donoghue, P.C. 2023. Postcranial disparity of galeaspids and the evolution of swimming speeds in stem-gnathostomes. National Science Review 10, nwad050. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad050
Gao, X., Li, J., Hu, K., Zhao, Y., Han, Y., Liu, F., Tucker, M.E., and Han, Z. 2023. Calcification of cell membranes: From ions to minerals. Chemical Geology 617, 121266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.12126
Guo, Z., Flannery-Sutherland, J.T., Benton, M.J. and Chen, Z.Q. 2023. Bayesian analyses indicate bivalves did not drive the downfall of brachiopods following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Nature Communications 14, 5566. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41358-8
Gutarra, S., Stubbs, T.L., Moon, B.C., Heighton, B.H., and Benton, M.J. 2023. The locomotor ecomorphology of Mesozoic marine reptiles. Palaeontology 66, e12645. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12645
Han, Z., Meng, R., Zhao, H., Gao, X., Zhao, Y., Han, Y., Liu, F., Tucker, M.E., Deng, J. and Yan, H. 2023. The incorporation of Mg2+ ions into aragonite during biomineralization: Implications for the dolomitization of aragonite. Frontiers in Microbiology 14, 1078430. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1078430
Healy, M.D., McNally, K.E., Butkovic, R., Chilton, M., Kato, K., Sacharz, J., McConville, C., Moody, E.R., Shaw, S., Planelles-Herrero, V.J. and Yadav, S.K. 2023. Structure of the Commander endosomal trafficking complex linked to X-linked intellectual disability/Ritscher-Schinzel syndrome. Cell 186, 2219-2237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.04.003
Henehan, M.J. and Witts, J.D. 2023. Continental flood basalts do not drive later Phanerozoic extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2303700120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2303700120
Hetzinger, S., Grohganz, M., Halfar, J., Hathorne, E., Ballesteros, E. and Kersting, D.K. 2023. Elemental cycles in the coralline alga Neogoniolithon hauckii as a recorder of temperature variability in the Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science 10, 1151592. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1151592
Hou, S.K., Shi, Q.Q., Benton, M.J., and Solounias, N. 2023. Comment on “Sexual selection promotes giraffoid head-neck evolution and ecological adaptation”. Science 379, eadd9559. https://10.1126/science.add9559
Huang, J., Martínez-Pérez, C., Zhang, Q., Zhang, K., Luo, M., Wen, W., Zhou, C., Min, X., Ma, Z., Xie, T., Benton, M.J. and Donoghue, P.C.J. 2023. Exceptionally preserved conodont natural assemblages from the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota, Yunnan Province, China: implications for architecture of conodont feeding apparatus. Journal of Earth Science 34, 1762-1776. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-022-1793-z
Irizarry, K.M., Witts, J.D., Garb, M.P., Rashkova, A., Landman, N.H., and Patzkowsky, M.E. 2023. Faunal and stratigraphic analysis of the basal Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary event deposits, Brazos River, Texas, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 610, 111334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111334
Janis, C.M. 2023. Asymmetry of evolutionary patterns between New World and Old World equids and among New World equine tribes. In Evolution of Cenozoic land mammal faunas and ecosystems: 25 years of the NOW database of fossil mammals (pp. 143-164). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_10
Janis, C.M., Franklin, E., Baird, C.N. and Tyler, J.. 2023. The Miocene browsing horses: another way to be a successful large equid. In: H.H.T. Prins and I.J. Gordon (eds), pp. 47- 71. The Equids, a Successful Suite of Species. Springer, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27144-1_3
Janis, C.M., O’Driscoll, A.M., and Kear, B.P. 2023. Myth of the Qantas leap: perspectives on the evolution of kangaroo locomotion. Alcheringa 47, 671-685. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.20232195895
Jiang, B., He, Y., Elsler, A., Wang, S., Keating, J.N., Song, J., Kearns, S.L. and Benton, M.J. 2023. Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7, 1131-1140. https://doi.org/0.1038/s41559-023-02074-0
John, E.H., Staudigel, P.T., Buse, B., Lear, C.H., Pearson, P.N. and Slater, S.M. 2023. Revealing their true stripes: Mg/Ca banding in the Paleogene planktonic foraminifera genus Morozovella and implications for paleothermometry. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38, e2023PA004652. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004652
Jones, H.L., Westerhold, T., Birch, H., Hull, P., Negra, M.H., Röhl, U., Sepúlveda, J., Vellekoop, J., Whiteside, J.H., Alegret, L. and Henehan, M. 2023. Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary at the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) in El Kef, Tunisia: New insights from the El Kef Coring Project. Geological Society of America Bulletin 135, 2451-2477. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36487.1
Jones, L.A., Gearty, W., Allen, B.J., Eichenseer, K., Dean, C.D., Galván, S., Kouvari, M., Godoy, P.L., Nicholl, C.S., Buffan, L., Dillon, E.M., Flannery-Sutherland, J.T. and Chiarenza, A.A. 2023. palaeoverse: A community‐driven R package to support palaeobiological analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14, 2205-2215. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14099
Jones, M.E. and Sheard, C. 2023. The macroevolutionary dynamics of mammalian sexual size dimorphism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290, 20231211. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1211
Juravel, K., Porras, L., Höhna, S., Pisani, D. and Wörheide, G., 2023. Exploring genome gene content and morphological analysis to test recalcitrant nodes in the animal phylogeny. Plos One 18, e0282444. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282444
Keating, J.N., Garwood, R.J. and Sansom, R.S. 2023. Phylogenetic congruence, conflict and consilience between molecular and morphological data. BMC Ecology and Evolution 23, 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02131-z
Kershaw, J., Stewart, J.A., Strawson, I., de Carvalho Ferreira, M.L., Robinson, L.F., Hendry, K.R., Samperiz, A., Burke, A., Rae, J.W., Day, R.D. and Etnoyer, P.J. 2023. Ba/Ca of stylasterid coral skeletons records dissolved seawater barium concentrations. Chemical Geology 622, 121355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121355
Kirmse, J.P., Benton, M.J., Hildebrandt, C., Langer, M.C. and Marsola, J.C. 2023. A Coelophysoidea (Dinosauria, Theropoda) femur from the Tytherington fissures (Rhaetian, Late Triassic), Bristol, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 134, 562-572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.07.005
Klug, C., Stevens, K., Hoffmann, R., Zatoń, M., Clements, T., Košťák, M., Weis, R., De Baets, K., Lehmann, J., Vinther, J. and Fuchs, D., 2023. Revisiting the identification of Syllipsimopodi bideni and timing of the decabrachian-octobrachian divergence. Nature Communications 14, 8094. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42842-x
Knight, J.A., Cleal, C.J., and Álvarez-Vázquez, C. 2023. The challenge of relating the Kasimovian to West European chronostratigraphy–a critical review of the Cantabrian and Barruelian substages of the Stephanian Stage. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 535, SP535-2022. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP535-2022-189
Kolar-Jurkovšek, T., Martínez-Pêrez, C., Hrvatović, H., Aljinović, D., Goričan, Š., Skopljak, F. and Jurkovšek, B. 2023. Pseudofurnishius (Conodonta) from the Triassic Drežnica section, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Marine Micropaleontology 183, 102271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2023.102271
Kopeć, K., Soszyńska, A., Coram, R.A. and Krzemiński, W. 2023. New species of the enigmatic genus Tipunia (Diptera, Tipulidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Kazakhstan and Lower Cretaceous of England. Cretaceous Research 147, 105512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105512
Larkin, N.R., Lomax, D.R., Evans, M., Nicholls, E., Dey, S., Boomer, I., Copestake, P., Bown, P., Riding, J.B., Withers, D. and Davis, J. 2023. Excavating the ‘Rutland Sea Dragon’: The largest ichthyosaur skeleton ever found in the UK (Whitby Mudstone Formation, Toarcian, Lower Jurassic). Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 134, 627-640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.09.003
Lautenschlager, S., Fagan, M.J., Luo, Z.X., Bird, C.M., Gill, P. and Rayfield, E.J. 2023. Functional reorganisation of the cranial skeleton during the cynodont–mammaliaform transition. Communications Biology 6, 367. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04742-0
Li, Y.D., Engel, M.S., Tihelka, E. and Cai, C.Y. 2023. Phylogenomics of weevils revisited: data curation and modelling compositional heterogeneity. Biology Letters 19, 20230307. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0307
Li, Y.D., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y. 2023. Oncelytris esquamatus gen. et sp. nov. from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Zootaxa, 5284, 192-200. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5284.1.10
Li, Y.D., Liu, Z., Huang, D. and Cai, C.Y. 2023. An unusual lineage of Helotidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Nitiduloidea). Invertebrate Systematics 37, 538-551. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS23004
Li, Y.D., Newton, A.F., Li, X.Y., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2023. Earliest fossil record of Phloeocharinae in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Cretaceous Research 142, 105371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2022.105371
Li, Y.D., Philips, T.K., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y. 2023. Earliest fossil record of Eucradinae in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ptinidae). Bulletin of Geosciences 98, 171-180. https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1876
Li, Y.D., Ślipiński, A., Huang, D.Y., and Cai, C.Y. 2023. New fossils of Sphaeriusidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber revealed by confocal microscopy (Coleoptera: Myxophaga). Frontiers in Earth Science 10, 901573. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.901573
Li, Y.D., Tihelka, E., Yamamoto, S., Newton, A.F., Xia, F.Y., Liu, Y., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y. 2023. Mesozoic Notocupes revealed as the sister group of Cupedidae (Coleoptera: Archostemata). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11, 1015627. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1015627
Li, Y.D., Volkovitsh, M.G., Song, H.T., Huang, D.Y. and Cai, C.Y. 2023. Dictyorachys gen. nov., an enigmatic genus of jewel beetles from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Bulletin of Geosciences 98, 161-169. https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1875
Li, Y.D., Yamamoto, S., Newton, A.F. and Cai, C.Y. 2023. Kekveus brevisulcatus sp. nov., a new featherwing beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). PeerJ, 11, e15306. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15306
Lin, H., Moody, E.R., Williams, T.A. and Moreau, J.W. 2023. On the origin and evolution of microbial mercury methylation. Genome Biology and Evolution 15, evad051. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad051
Liu, Q., Robinson, L.F., Hendy, E., Prokopenko, M.G., Stewart, J.A., Knowles, T.D., Li, T. and Samperiz, A., 2023. Reinterpreting radiocarbon records in bamboo corals–New insights from the tropical North Atlantic. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 348, 296-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.03.019
Liu, Q.L., Cheng, L., Stubbs, T.L., Moon, B.C., Benton, M.J., Yan, C.B. and Tian, L. 2023. Rapid neck elongation in Sauropterygia (Reptilia: Diapsida) revealed by a new basal pachypleurosaur from the Lower Triassic of China. BMC Ecology and Evolution 23, 44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02150-w
Luo, M., Li, Z., Su, M., Gadd, G.M., Yin, Z., Benton, M.J., Pan, Y., Zheng, D., Zhao, T., Li, Z. and Chen, Y. 2023. Fungal-induced fossil biomineralization. Current Biology 33, 2417-2424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.067
Mahendrarajah, T.A., Moody, E.R., Schrempf, D., Szánthó, L.L., Dombrowski, N., Davín, A.A., Pisani, D., Donoghue, P.C., Szöllősi, G.J., Williams, T.A. and Spang, A., 2023. ATP synthase evolution on a cross-braced dated tree of life. Nature Communications 14, 7456. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42924-w
Mather, C.C., Lampinen, H.M., Tucker, M.E., Leopold, M., Dogramaci, S., Raven, M. and Gilkes, R.J. 2023. Microbial influence on dolomite and authigenic clay mineralisation in dolocrete profiles of NW Australia. Geobiology 21, 644-670. https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12555
Melbourne, L.A., Brodie, J., Rayfield, E.J., Titelboim, D., Lord, O.T. and Schmidt, D.N. 2023. Environmental impacts on the structural integrity of British rhodoliths. Scientific Reports 13, 13473. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40292-5
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