@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A newly discovered fossil species of green algae indicates that photosynthesis originated in plants at least 1 billion years ago, paleobiologists reported in Nature Ecology & Evolution yesterday (February 24). The discovery of Proterocladus antiquus helps pinpoint what has been a very broad estimation of when the chlorophyte group of green algae, the relatives […]
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WFS News: Oldest Green Algae Fossil
June 18th, 2020 
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No Comments »WFS News: The Permian-Triassic extinction was directly responsible for disrupting ocean chemistry
June 17th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study shows for the first time that the collapse of terrestrial ecosystems during Earth’s most deadly mass extinction event was directly responsible for disrupting ocean chemistry. The international study, led by the University of Leeds, highlights the importance of understanding the inter-connectedness of ecosystems as our […]
WFS News: Fossil bite marks of Theropod connected with feeding nature
June 14th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Bite marks provide direct evidence for trophic interactions and competition in the fossil record. However, variations in paleoecological dynamics, such as trophic relationships, feeding behavior, and food availability, govern the frequency of these traces. Theropod bite marks are particularly rare, suggesting that members of this clade might not […]
Posted in General Tags: bite marks, fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, theropod, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: The last known freshwater coelacanths
June 13th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The last known freshwater coelacanths: New Late Cretaceous mawsoniid remains (Osteichthyes: Actinistia) from Southern France Abstract Coelacanths are iconic fishes represented today by a single marine genus. The group was a little bit more diversified in the Mesozoic, with representatives in marine and continental environments in the Late […]
Posted in General Tags: Coelacanths, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Trackway evidence for large bipedal crocodylomorphs from the Cretaceous of Korea
June 12th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Trackway evidence for large bipedal crocodylomorphs from the Cretaceous of Korea Kyung Soo Kim, Martin G. Lockley, Jong Deock Lim, Seul Mi Bae & Anthony Romilio Scientific Reports volume 10, Article number: 8680 (2020) Abstract Large well-preserved crocodylomorph tracks from the Lower Cretaceous (? Aptian) Jinju Formation of South Korea, represent the well-known crocodylomorph ichnogenus Batrachopus. The […]
Posted in General Tags: crocodylomorphs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: First Fossil Frog
June 9th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia Cenozoic ectothermic continental tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) have not been documented previously from Antarctica, in contrast to all other continents. Here we report a fossil ilium and an ornamented skull bone […]
Posted in General Tags: Eocene, fossil, Frog, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Ectoparasitism and infections in the exoskeletons of large fossil cingulates
May 31st, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Ectoparasitism and infections in the exoskeletons of large fossil cingulates Studies on paleopathological alterations in fossil vertebrates, including damages caused by infections and ectoparasites, are important because they are potential sources of paleoecological information. Analyzing exoskeleton material (isolated osteoderms, carapace and caudal tube fragments) from fossil cingulates of the […]
Posted in General Tags: cingulates, Ectoparasitism, fossil, infections, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: First tapejarid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation
May 28th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev First tapejarid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation (Wealden Group: Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of the United Kingdom An isolated, partial premaxilla from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation of Yaverland, Isle of Wight, UK is identified as pterosaurian on account of its overall morphology and thin bone walls. It is […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tapejarid pterosaur, Wessex Formation, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Articulated remains of the extinct shark Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Spain
May 27th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In 1996, palaeontologists found skeletal remains of a giant shark at the northern coast of Spain, near the city Santander. Here, the coast comprises meter high limestone walls that were deposited during the Cretaceous period, around 85 million years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the world. Scientists from […]
Posted in General Tags: Ptychodus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New Dinosaur Elaphrosaur Unearthed in Australia
May 20th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The newly-discovered dinosaur belongs to Elaphrosaurinae, an enigmatic group of gracile ceratosaurian dinosaurs known from the Late Jurassic period of Africa and Asia, and the early Late Cretaceous period of Argentina. “Elaphrosaurs were strange looking dinosaurs — they ran low to the ground on two legs, with a slender […]
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