Dr Jakob Vinther

Latest publications

• Park, TYS, Kihm, JH, Woo, J, Park, C, Lee, WY, Smith, MP, Harper, DA, Young, F, Nielsen, AT & Vinther, J, 2018, ‘Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head’. Nature Communications, vol 9.
• Saitta, ET, Gelernter, R & Vinther, J, 2018, ‘Additional information on the primitive contour and wing feathering of paravian dinosaurs’. Palaeontology, vol 61., pp. 273-288
• Parry, LA, Smithwick, F, Nordén, KK, Saitta, ET, Lozano-Fernandez, J, Tanner, AR, Caron, JB, Edgecombe, GD, Briggs, DE & Vinther, J, 2018, ‘Soft-Bodied Fossils Are Not Simply Rotten Carcasses – Toward a Holistic Understanding of Exceptional Fossil Preservation: Exceptional Fossil Preservation Is Complex and Involves the Interplay of Numerous Biological and Geological Processes’. BioEssays, vol 40.
• Parry, LA, Baron, MG & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Multiple optimality criteria support ornithoscelida’. Royal Society Open Science, vol 4.
• O'Reilly, S, Summons, R, Mayr, G & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Preservation of uropygial gland lipids in a 48-million-year-old bird’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 284.
• Vinther, J, 2017, ‘The True Colors of Dinosaurs’. Scientific American, vol 316., pp. 50-57
• Clements, T, Colleary, C, De Baets, K & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Buoyancy mechanisms limit preservation of coleoid cephalopod soft tissues in Mesozoic Lagerstätten’. Palaeontology, vol 60., pp. 1-14
• Vinther, J, Parry, L, Briggs, D & Van Roy, P, 2017, ‘Ancestral morphology of crown-group molluscs revealed by a new Ordovician stem aculiferan’. Nature, vol 542., pp. 471?474
• Young, FJ & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Onychophoran-like myoanatomy of the Cambrian gilled lobopodian Pambdelurion whittingtoni’. Palaeontology, vol 60., pp. 27-54
• Saitta, E, Rogers, C, Brooker, R & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Experimental Taphonomy of Keratin: A Structural Analysis of Early Taphonomic Changes’. PALAIOS, vol 32., pp. 647-657