1. Rapid riparian ecosystem recovery in low-latitudinal North China following the end-Permian mass extinction

    This article has 7 authors:
    1. Wenwei Guo
    2. Li Tian
    3. Daoliang Chu
    4. Wenchao Shu
    5. Michael J Benton
    6. Jun Liu
    7. Jinnan Tong
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      This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid recovery in tropical riparian ecosystems following a short phase of hostile environments and depauperate biota, is supported by an impressive amount of data from sedimentology, body fossils of animals and plants, and especially trace fossils.

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  2. A new tuna specimen (Genus Auxis ) from the Duho Formation (Miocene) of South Korea

    This article has 3 authors:
    1. Dayun Suh
    2. Su-Hwan Kim
    3. Gi-Soo Nam

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  3. Simple shell measurements do not consistently predict habitat in turtles: a reply to Lichtig and Lucas (2017)

    This article has 4 authors:
    1. Serjoscha W. Evers
    2. Christian Foth
    3. Walter G. Joyce
    4. Guilherme Hermanson

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  4. New soft tissue data of pterosaur tail vane reveals sophisticated, dynamic tensioning usage and expands its evolutionary origins

    This article has 5 authors:
    1. Natalia Jagielska
    2. Thomas G Kaye
    3. Michael B Habib
    4. Tatsuya Hirasawa
    5. Michael Pittman
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      The presented soft tissue data of pterosaur tail vanes represent a valuable contribution to ongoing research efforts to decipher the flight abilities of pterosaurs in the fields of paleontology, comparative biomechanics, and bioinspired design. The new methods are compelling and give new detail on tail morphology, with a potential to resolve how pterosaurs were able to control and maintain tail stiffness to furnish flight control.

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  5. Classification of dinosaur footprints using machine learning

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    1. Michael Jones
    2. Jens N. Lallensack
    3. Ian Jarman
    4. Peter Falkingham
    5. Ivo Siekmann

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  6. Basal Cambrian soft-bodied segmented bilaterians preserved as microbial pseudomorphs

    This article has 10 authors:
    1. Xiaoguang Yang
    2. Deng Wang
    3. Zhiliang Zhang
    4. Xing Wang
    5. Jie Sun
    6. Wenjing Hao
    7. Yiqun Liu
    8. Kentaro Uesugi
    9. Tsuyoshi Komiya
    10. Jian Han
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      This manuscript describes valuable new material of small, unusually preserved fossils from deep in the Cambrian of China and argues they represent very early bilaterian animals such as annelids or panarthropods. The authors present convincing evidence of the fossilisation of specimens as microbial pseudomorphs, however, the fossils show few details and it is difficult to assess their affinity. The broader claims made about the timing and nature of the Cambrian explosion are inadequately supported by the material, given that bilaterians were already known to exist during that period.

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  7. Multiple origins of dorsal ecdysial sutures in trilobites and their relatives

    This article has 6 authors:
    1. Kun-sheng Du
    2. Jin Guo
    3. Sarah R Losso
    4. Stephen Pates
    5. Ming Li
    6. Ai-lin Chen
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      The authors present 16 new well-preserved specimens from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota. These specimens potentially represent a new taxon which could be useful in sorting out the problematic topology of artiopodan arthropods - a topic of interest to specialists in Cambrian arthropods. The authors provide solid anatomical and phylogenetic evidence in support of a new interpretation of the homology of dorsal sutures in trilobites and their relatives.

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  8. Alasemenia, the earliest ovule with three wings and without cupule

    This article has 7 authors:
    1. Deming Wang
    2. Jiangnan Yang
    3. Le Liu
    4. Yi Zhou
    5. Peng Xu
    6. Min Qin
    7. Pu Huang
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      This useful study describes the second earliest known winged ovule without a capule in the Famennian of Late Devonian. Using solid mathematical analysis, the authors demonstrate that three-winged seeds are more adapted to wind dispersal than one-, two- and four-winged seeds. The manuscript will help the scientific community to understand the origin and early evolutionary history of wind dispersal strategy of early land plants.

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  9. Early evolution of the ecdysozoan body plan

    This article has 13 authors:
    1. Deng Wang
    2. Yaqin Qiang
    3. Junfeng Guo
    4. Jean Vannier
    5. Zuchen Song
    6. Jiaxin Peng
    7. Boyao Zhang
    8. Jie Sun
    9. Yilun Yu
    10. Yiheng Zhang
    11. Tao Zhang
    12. Xiaoguang Yang
    13. Jian Han
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      This study provides a fundamental advance in palaeontology by reporting the fossils of a new invertebrate, Beretella spinosa, and inferring its relationship with already described species. The analysis placed the newly described species in the earliest branch of moulting invertebrates. The study, supported by convincing fossil observation, hypothesizes that early moulting invertebrate animals were not vermiform.

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  10. The contribution of Mediterranean connectivity to morphological variability in Iron Age sheep of the Eastern Mediterranean

    This article has 5 authors:
    1. Sierra A. Harding
    2. Angelos Hadjikoumis
    3. Shyama Vermeersch
    4. Roee Shafir
    5. Nimrod Marom

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