@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Did the transition to plate tectonics cause Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth? Citation: Stern RJ, Miller NR. Did the transition to plate tectonics cause Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth? Terra Nova. 2018;30:87–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12321 When Earth’s tectonic style transitioned from stagnant lid (single plate) to the modern episode of plate tectonics is important but unresolved, and all lines of […]
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WFS News: Did the transition to plate tectonics cause Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth?
May 20th, 2018 
Riffin WFS News:A new large-bodied thalattosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Hungary
May 15th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new large-bodied thalattosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Hungary, with further evidence of the mosaic acquisition of marine adaptations in Metriorhynchoidea. Ősi A, Young MT, Galácz A, Rabi M. (2018) PeerJ 6:e4668 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4668 Based on associated and three-dimensionally preserved cranial and postcranial remains, a new thalattosuchian crocodyliform, Magyarosuchus fitosi gen. et […]
WFS News: A unified model of the formation mechanism of spherical carbonate concretions contain exceptionally well-preserved fossils
May 10th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fosssil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Spherical, isolated carbonate concretions occur throughout the world in marine argillaceous sedimentary rocks of widely varying geological ages. These concretions are characteristically highly enriched in CaCO3compared to the surrounding sedimentary rock matrices and are typically separated from these rock matrices by sharp boundaries1,2,3. These sharp boundaries mean that […]
WFS News: A new species of Late Cretaceous Peritresius sp. sea turtles found
May 6th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alabama, USA, and the occurrence of the genus within the Mississippi Embayment of North America Citation: Gentry AD, Parham JF, Ehret DJ, Ebersole JA (2018) A new species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Resolving the identity of Platylithophycus, an enigmatic fossil
April 27th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Resolving the identity of Platylithophycus, an enigmatic fossil from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian–Campanian) Citation:Allison W. Bronson, John G. Maisey. Resolving the identity of Platylithophycus, an enigmatic fossil from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous, Coniacian–Campanian). Journal of Paleontology, 2018; 1 DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2018.14 Misidentified fossils are common in paleontology, but Platylithophycus has undergone a […]
WFS News: Global Diversity and Phylogeny of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata)
April 24th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Global Diversity and Phylogeny of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata) Citation: Mah CL, Blake DB (2012) Global Diversity and Phylogeny of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata). PLoS ONE 7(4): e35644. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035644 Editor: Jonathan H. Badger, J. Craig Venter Institute, United States of America Members of the Asteroidea (phylum Echinodermata), popularly known as starfish or […]
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April 22nd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A University of Adelaide mineralogy researcher has discovered a new mineral that is unique in structure and composition among the world’s 4,000 known mineral species. Published in Mineralogical Magazine, Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Dr Peter Elliott has described ‘putnisite’, found in a surface outcrop […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: new Mineral, Putnisite, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Collagen Fingerprinting: A New Screening Technique for Radiocarbon Dating Ancient Bone
April 19th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Collagen Fingerprinting: A New Screening Technique for Radiocarbon Dating Ancient Bone Citation: Harvey VL, Egerton VM, Chamberlain AT, Manning PL, Buckley M (2016) Collagen Fingerprinting: A New Screening Technique for Radiocarbon Dating Ancient Bone. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0150650. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150650 Editor: Siân E. Halcrow, University of Otago, NEW ZEALAND Collagen is […]
WFS News : Muroid rodent phylogenetics: 900-species tree reveals increasing diversification rates
April 15th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T sajeev Abstract Citation: Steppan SJ, Schenk JJ (2017) Muroid rodent phylogenetics: 900-species tree reveals increasing diversification rates. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0183070. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183070 Editor: Dorothee Huchon, Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL We combined new sequence data for more than 300 muroid rodent species with our previously published sequences for up to five nuclear […]
WFS News: A rare disc-like holdfast of the Ediacaran macroalga from South China
April 11th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A rare disc-like holdfast of the Ediacaran macroalga from South China Journal Of paleontology, Volume 91, Issue 6,November 2017 , pp. 1091-1101 Ye Wang,School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China 〈gboywangye@126.com〉 Yue Wang,School of Resources and Environments, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China 〈gzyuewang@126.com〉 Wei Du, […]
