Fossil Ostracoda

Phylotranscriptomics to bring the understudied into the fold: monophyletic ostracoda, fossil placement, and pancrustacean phylogeny.

An ambitious, yet fundamental goal for comparative biology is to understand the evolutionary relationships for all of life. However, many important taxonomic groups have remained recalcitrant to inclusion into broader scale studies. Here, we focus on collection of 9 new 454 transcriptome data sets from Ostracoda, an ancient and diverse group with a dense fossil record, which is often undersampl...

Arthropods: Crustacea – Ostracoda and Amphpoda

Ostracoda From Wells in North Carolina : Part 2 . Mesozoic Ostracoda GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL

--___-___-__„___-_-_______________________ Introduction.. _ _____________________________________ Stratigraphic Summary__________________________ Mesozoic and older rocks in Esso Standard Oil Co. Hatteras Light well No. 1___________________ Mesozoic rocks in Esso Standard Oil Co. North Carolina Esso well No. 2______________________ Stratigraphic distribution of the Ostracoda________ Systematic ...

Fossil embryos deep in the fossil record

Embryos have been found in ‘old’ rocks on four continents, especially in Siberia, Nevada, Australia and China. They have been discovered in sedimentary rocks of even Late Neoproterozoic age, assuming the evolutionary geological column1 (figure 1). The Neoproterozoic is the period, so called, between 1 billion and 550 million years ago. This discovery was in the Doushantuo Formation, Guizhou Pro...

Fossil pigments

Johan Lindgren introduces fossil pigments.