Dr Jakob Vinther

Latest publications

• Smithwick, F, Mayr, G, Saitta, E, Benton, M & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘On the purported presence of fossilised collagen fibres in an ichthyosaur and a theropod dinosaur’. Palaeontology, vol 60., pp. 409?422
• 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
• Smithwick, F, Nicholls, R, Cuthill, I & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Countershading and stripes in the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx reveal heterogeneous habitats in the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota’. Current Biology.
• Vinther, J, 2017, ‘The True Colors of Dinosaurs’. Scientific American, vol 316., pp. 50-57
• Tanner, A, Fuchs, D, winkelmann, IE, Gilbert, MTP, Pankey, S, Ribeiro, AM, Kocot, K, Halanych, K, Oakley, TH, Da Fonseca, RR, Pisani, D & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Molecular clocks indicate turnover and diversification of modern coleoid cephalopods during the Mesozoic Marine Revolution’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 284.
• 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
• Field, DJ, Robert, B, Racicot, RA, Ásbjörnsdottir, L, Jónasson, K, Hsiang, A, Behlke, A & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘The oldest marine vertebrate fossil from the volcanic island of Iceland: a partial right whale skull from the high latitude Pliocene Tjörnes Formation’. Palaeontology, vol 60., pp. 141-148
• Brown, CM, Henderson, DM, Vinther, J, Fletcher, I, Sistiaga, A, Herrera, J & Summons, RE, 2017, ‘An Exceptionally Preserved Three-Dimensional Armored Dinosaur Reveals Insights into Coloration and Cretaceous Predator-Prey Dynamics’. Current Biology.
• Young, FJ & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Onychophoran-like myoanatomy of the Cambrian gilled lobopodian Pambdelurion whittingtoni’. Palaeontology, vol 60., pp. 27-54
• Saitta, E, Rogers, CS, Brooker, R, Abbott, GD, Kumar, S, O'Reilly, S, Donohoe, P, Dutta, S, Summons, RE & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Low fossilisation potential of keratin protein revealed by experimental taphonomy’. Palaeontology.