Dr Jakob Vinther

Latest publications

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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, vol 27., pp. 3337-3343.e2
• 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.
• 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, vol 60., pp. 547-556
• Parry, LA, Baron, MG & Vinther, J, 2017, ‘Multiple optimality criteria support ornithoscelida’. Royal Society Open Science, vol 4.