Paleontology

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

1. Serjoscha W. Evers
2. Christian Foth
3. Walter G. Joyce
4. Guilherme Hermanson

Reviewed by Peer Community in Paleontology

Classification of dinosaur footprints using machine learning

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

Reviewed by preLights

Basal Cambrian soft-bodied segmented bilaterians preserved as microbial pseudomorphs

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

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

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

1. Sierra A. Harding
2. Angelos Hadjikoumis
3. Shyama Vermeersch
4. Roee Shafir
5. Nimrod Marom

Reviewed by Peer Community in Archaeology

An Early Miocene skeleton of Brachydiceratherium Lavocat, 1951 (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Baikal area, Russia, and a revised phylogeny of Eurasian teleoceratines

1. Alexander Sizov
2. Alexey Klementiev
3. Pierre-Olivier Antoine

Reviewed by Peer Community in Paleontology