An extraordinary gobioid fish fossil from Southern France. by Christoph Gierl, Bettina Reichenbacher, Jean Gaudant, Dirk Erpenbeck, André Pharisat

“…Several lineages, including the Eleotridae and Butidae, remain difficult to characterize because synapomorphies are rare (Eleotridae) or have not yet been determined (Butidae). Moreover, the fossil record of these groups is scarce.<h4>Results</h4>Exceptionally well-preserved fish fossils with otoliths in situ from uppermost Oligocene sediments (≈23-24 Mio. y. ago) in Southern France provide the most in-depth description of a fossil gobioid to date. …”
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Microscopic principles of chemical engineering after fossil fuels by Jianzhong Wu

“…Traditionally, these industrial processes use fossil fuels as the raw materials and are responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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230Th/U-dating of fossil corals and speleothems by D. Scholz, D. Hoffmann

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Space Matters: Estimating Species Diversity in the Fossil Record.

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FOSSIL. III. Lightcurves of 371 Trans-Neptunian Objects by Edward Ashton, Chan-Kao Chang, Ying-Tung Chen, Matthew J. Lehner, Shiang-Yu Wang, Mike Alexandersen, Young-Jun Choi, Wesley C. Fraser, A. Paula Granados Contreras, Takashi Ito, Youngmin JeongAhn, Jianghui Ji, JJ Kavelaars, Myung-Jin Kim, Samantha M. Lawler, Jian Li, Zhong-Yi Lin, Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Hong-Kyu Moon, Surhud More, Marco A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Keiji Ohtsuki, Rosemary E. Pike, Tsuyoshi Terai, Seitaro Urakawa, Fumi Yoshida, Hui Zhang, Haibin Zhao, Ji-Lin Zhou, (The FOSSIL Collaboration)

“…Another of the periodic FOSSIL TNOs could potentially have the fastest of all known TNO spin rates, with a period of 1.3 hr. …”
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High-Energy Transformations of Fossil Fuels in the Cement Industry by Mirosław Szwed, Witold Żukowski, Krzysztof Misztal, Rafał Kozłowski

“…The energy stored in fossil fuels is released through combustion and is a fundamental process in the production of cement. …”
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Putative fossil blood cells reinterpreted as diagenetic structures by Dana E. Korneisel, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Sarah Werning, Shuhai Xiao

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Pheomelanin pigment remnants mapped in fossils of an extinct mammal by Phillip L. Manning, Nicholas P. Edwards, Uwe Bergmann, Jennifer Anné, William I. Sellers, Arjen van Veelen, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Victoria M. Egerton, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Konstantin Ignatyev, Bart E. van Dongen, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Shosuke Ito, Fabien Knoll, Roy A. Wogelius

“…Chemical imaging and spectroscopy have previously been used to identify eumelanin residue in fossils and infer dark coloration. Here, Manning and colleagues develop an approach to identify pheomelanin (red pigment) residues and ascertain their distribution in fossils.…”
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Data on fossil fuel availability for Shared Socioeconomic Pathways by Nico Bauer, Jérôme Hilaire, Robert J. Brecha, Jae Edmonds, Kejun Jiang, Elmar Kriegler, Hans-Holger Rogner, Fabio Sferra

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Fossil Time: oil, art and the body in the cosmopolitics of the Anthropocene by Mari Fraga (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil)

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First fossil turtle from Hainan Island, China by Lu Li, Jinyou Mo, Zhaoxue Huang, Haiyan Tong

“…Although Hainan Island is one of the richest regions for living turtle species in China, no fossil turtle had hitherto been discovered there. …”
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Enamel ultrastructure in fossil cetaceans (Cetacea: Archaeoceti and Odontoceti). by Carolina Loch, Jules A Kieser, R Ewan Fordyce

“…We report the morphology of teeth and ultrastructure of enamel in archaeocetes, and fossil platanistoids and delphinoids, ranging from late Oligocene (Waitaki Valley, New Zealand) to Pliocene (Caldera, Chile). …”
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A comparison of clustering methods for biogeography with fossil datasets by Matthew J. Vavrek

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Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles by Chenyang Cai, Erik Tihelka, Mattia Giacomelli, John F. Lawrence, Adam Ślipiński, Robin Kundrata, Shûhei Yamamoto, Margaret K. Thayer, Alfred F. Newton, Richard A. B. Leschen, Matthew L. Gimmel, Liang Lü, Michael S. Engel, Patrice Bouchard, Diying Huang, Davide Pisani, Philip C. J. Donoghue

“…Here, we use a dataset of 68 single-copy nuclear protein-coding (NPC) genes sampling 129 out of the 193 recognized extant families as well as the first comprehensive set of fully justified fossil calibrations to recover a refined timescale of beetle evolution. …”
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Phylogenetic relationships in Nothofagus: The role of Antarctic fossil leaves by Bárbara Vento, Federico Agraín, Gabriela G. Puebla, Diego Pinzón

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THE PROTECTION OF FOSSILS IN BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY) by GERT BLOOS

“…In Baden-Württemberg, fossils of special scientific and public interest have been protected as cultural monuments by the Monument Protection Law since 1972. …”
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Endogenous Caulimovirids: Fossils, Zombies, and Living in Plant Genomes by Héléna Vassilieff, Andrew D. W. Geering, Nathalie Choisne, Pierre-Yves Teycheney, Florian Maumus

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Features of deep cave sediments: their influence on fossil preservation by T. Torres, J. E. Ortiz, R. Cobo

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Homo Sapiens (Archaic) Baby Fossil of the Middle Pleistocene by P. Rajendran, Peter Koshy, Santha Sadasivan

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The homology and function of the lung plates in extant and fossil coelacanths by Camila Cupello, François J. Meunier, Marc Herbin, Philippe Janvier, Gaël Clément, Paulo M. Brito

“…Abstract The presence of a pulmonary organ that is entirely covered by true bone tissue and fills most of the abdominal cavity is hitherto unique to fossil actinistians. Although small hard plates have been recently reported in the lung of the extant coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae, the homology between these hard structures in fossil and extant forms remained to be demonstrated. …”
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