Biogenic Iron Preserves Structures during Fossilization: A Hypothesis

Anoxia can increase the rate of decay for cnidarian tissue: Using Actinia equina to understand the early fossil record

(2020) Anthony D. Hancy et al.   Geobiology

Orbital control on exceptional fossil preservation

(2019) Farid Saleh et al.   GEOLOGY

Burgess Shale fossils shed light on the agnostid problem

(2019) J. Moysiuk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Canadia spinosa and the early evolution of the annelid nervous system

(2019) Luke Parry et al.   Science Advances

Taphonomic bias in exceptionally preserved biotas

(2019) Farid Saleh et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Stabilization and transformation of selenium during the Fe(II)-induced transformation of Se(IV)-adsorbed ferrihydrite under anaerobic conditions

(2019) Shaofeng Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Proclivity of nervous system preservation in Cambrian Burgess Shale-type deposits

(2019) Javier Ortega-Hernández et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A New Burgess Shale Polychaete and the Origin of the Annelid Head Revisited

(2018) Karma Nanglu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A mineralogical signature for Burgess Shale–type fossilization

(2018) Ross P. Anderson et al.   GEOLOGY

Experimental analysis of soft-tissue fossilization: opening the black box

(2018) Mark A. Purnell et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion

(2018) Allison C. Daley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial decay analysis challenges interpretation of putative organ systems in Cambrian fuxianhuiids

(2018) Jianni Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Exceptionally preserved soft parts in fossils from the Lower Ordovician of Morocco clarify stylophoran affinities within basal deuterostomes

(2018) Bertrand Lefebvre et al.   GEOBIOS

STORM-INDUCED COMMUNITY DYNAMICS IN THE FEZOUATA BIOTA (LOWER ORDOVICIAN, MOROCCO)

(2018) FARID SALEH et al.   PALAIOS

Pyritizedin situtrilobite eggs from the Ordovician of New York (Lorraine Group): Implications for trilobite reproductive biology

(2017) Thomas A. Hegna et al.   GEOLOGY

Hyoliths are Palaeozoic lophophorates

(2017) Joseph Moysiuk et al.   NATURE

Ancestral morphology of crown-group molluscs revealed by a new Ordovician stem aculiferan

(2017) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

The Hunsrück biota: A unique window into the ecology of Lower Devonian arthropods

(2016) Jes Rust et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

The Lower Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte from Morocco: Age, environment and evolutionary perspectives

(2016) Emmanuel L.O. Martin et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Preservation and phylogeny of Cambrian ecdysozoans tested by experimental decay of Priapulus

(2016) Robert S. Sansom   Scientific Reports

Competition and mimicry: the curious case of chaetae in brachiopods from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale

(2015) Timothy P Topper et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Preservational Pathways of Corresponding Brains of a Cambrian Euarthropod

(2015) Xiaoya Ma et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Homology of Head Sclerites in Burgess Shale Euarthropods

(2015) Javier Ortega-Hernández   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Presumed postlarval pentacrinoids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany

(2015) Thomas W. Kammer et al.   LETHAIA

Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

(2015) Erik A. Sperling et al.   NATURE

Experimental taphonomy of Artemia reveals the role of endogenous microbes in mediating decay and fossilization

(2015) A. D. Butler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians

(2014) Duncan JE Murdock et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Brain structure resolves the segmental affinity of anomalocaridid appendages

(2014) Peiyun Cong et al.   NATURE

A unifying model for Neoproterozoic–Palaeozoic exceptional fossil preservation through pyritization and carbonaceous compression

(2014) James D. Schiffbauer et al.   Nature Communications

Sophisticated digestive systems in early arthropods

(2014) Jean Vannier et al.   Nature Communications

Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

PRESERVATION OF GIANT ANOMALOCARIDIDS IN SILICA-CHLORITE CONCRETIONS FROM THE EARLY ORDOVICIAN OF MOROCCO

(2012) R. R. GAINES et al.   PALAIOS

Application of Raman spectroscopy to identify iron minerals commonly found in mine wastes

(2011) Soumya Das et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian

(2010) Martin R. Smith et al.   NATURE

Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

(2010) Peter Van Roy et al.   NATURE

Ordered ferrimagnetic form of ferrihydrite reveals links among structure, composition, and magnetism

(2010) F. M. Michel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Raman spectroscopy of iron oxides and (oxy)hydroxides at low laser power and possible applications in environmental magnetic studies

(2009) Monika Hanesch   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

The Burgess Shale Anomalocaridid Hurdia and Its Significance for Early Euarthropod Evolution

(2009) A. C. Daley et al.   SCIENCE

Turbidite depositional influences on the diagenesis of Beecher's Trilobite Bed and the Hunsruck Slate; sites of soft tissue pyritization

(2008) R. Raiswell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids

(2008) Jakob Vinther et al.   NATURE

Illite crystallinity patterns in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco

(2008) Geoffrey M. H. Ruiz et al.   Swiss Journal of Geosciences