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• A bizarre jurassic maniraptoran theropod with preserved evidence of membranous wings

  Authors:Xing Xu, Xiaoting Zheng, Corwin Sullivan, XiaoliWang, Lida Xing, Yan Wang, et al.From:Nature (Vol. 521, Issue 7550) Peer-Reviewed

  May 7, 20153,128 words Report 1670LThe wings of birds and their closest theropod relatives share a uniform fundamental architecture, with pinnate flight feathers as the key component (1-3). Here we report a new scansoriopterygid theropod, Yiqigen. et sp....

• A response to W. Ron Hess, "Did Shakespeare Have a Literary Mentor?"

  Author:Sabrina FeldmanFrom:The Oxfordian (Vol. 13) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 20115,970 words Article 1440LThe Oxfordian scholar W. Ron Hess and I share a unique tie: we both believe that the Elizabethan poet and statesman Thomas Sackville (1536-1608), long overlooked as a Shakespeare authorship candidate, may have played...

• In response to the announcement that this will be the 10th Anniversary issue

  Authors:Mark Anderson, Charles Beauclerk, Elizabeth Imlay, Matthew Cossolotto, Frank Davis, Daniel Wright, et al.From:The Oxfordian (Vol. 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 2007760 words Letter to the editor Dear Editor, As an in-depth, scholarly journal devoted to delving full fathom five into "Shakespeare" as the creative output of the Court poet-playwright Edward de Vere, THE OXFORDIAN is without peer. I consulted...

• The First Metriorhynchid Crocodylomorph from the Middle Jurassic of Spain, with Implications for Evolution of the Subclade Rhacheosaurini

  Authors:Jara Parrilla-Bel, Mark T. Young, Miguel Moreno-Azanza, and Jose Ignacio CanudoFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 23, 201314,705 words Article 1200LAuthor(s): Jara Parrilla-Bel 1 , * , Mark T. Young 2 , Miguel Moreno-Azanza 1 , José Ignacio Canudo 1 Introduction Crocodylomorpha was a morphologically and ecologically diverse clade during Mesozoic [1]-[5], and...

• Lower Jurassic cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria) from Germany and England

  Authors:Peter Vrsansky and Jorg AnsorgeFrom:African Invertebrates (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20076,171 words Report Types of the Lower Jurassic cockroaches described by Geinitz, Scudder, Handlirsch and Bode from Germany and England are redescribed. Forty-five previously described Lower Toarcian cockroach species are synonymised into...

• Source rock potential of Lower to Middle Jurassic black clastic sequences of the Intermontane belt

  Author:Filippo FerriFrom:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (Vol. 48, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 201116,247 words Report 1490LLower to Middle Jurassic clastic sequences are widespread within the interior of the Canadian Cordillera. These successions cap waning Jurassic volcanism in many Cordilleran arc terranes and are succeeded by clastic...

• A new genus and species of polychelid lobster (Crustacea, Decapoda, Eryonidae) from the early Jurassic (Hettangian) of British Columbia

  Authors:Rodney M. Feldmann, Carrie E. Schweitzer, and James W. HaggartFrom:Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (Vol. 50, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20134,273 words Report 1220LA single specimen of decapod crustacean, preserved in ventral view and compressed, represents a new genus and species of eryonid lobster, Wrangelleryon perates. The discovery in Lower Jurassic (Hettangian) sediments of...

• Anti-Oxfordian T Shirts Peddled to Support NC Shakespeare Company.

  From:Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (Vol. 56, Issue 3)

  Summer 2020194 words Brief article 1320LOn Facebook earlier this year, a supporter of a small North Carolina Shakespeare company offered a T shirt with a violent message: "If You Mention the Earl of Oxford One More Time I'll Stab You in the Face." According to...

• Sedimentology and ichnology of the Mafube dinosaur track site (Lower Jurassic, eastern Free State, South Africa): a report on footprint preservation and palaeoenvironment

  Authors:Lara Sciscio, Emese M. Bordy, Mhairi Reid, and Miengah AbrahamsFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 23, 201610,328 words Article 1400LFootprint morphology (e.g., outline shape, depth of impression) is one of the key diagnostic features used in the interpretation of ancient vertebrate tracks. Over 80 tridactyl tracks, confined to the same bedding...

• A New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia and the Origin and Evolution of the Sauropod-type Sacrum

  Authors:Diego Pol, Alberto Garrido, and Ignacio A. CerdaFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 26, 201114,823 words Article 1460LBackground The origin of sauropod dinosaurs is one of the major landmarks of dinosaur evolution but is still poorly understood. This drastic transformation involved major skeletal modifications, including a shift...

• Late Jurassic theropod dinosaur bones from the Langenberg Quarry (Lower Saxony, Germany) provide evidence for several theropod lineages in the central European archipelago

  Authors:Serjoscha W. Evers and Oliver WingsFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 6, 202010,795 words Article 1290LMarine limestones and marls in the Langenberg Quarry provide unique insights into a Late Jurassic island ecosystem in central Europe. The beds yield a varied assemblage of terrestrial vertebrates including extremely...

• Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria, Germany: The Problem of Cryptic Pterosaur Taxa in Early Ontogeny

  Authors:Steven U. Vidovic and David M. MartillFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 10) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 22, 201410,747 words Article 1410LThe taxonomy of the Late Jurassic pterodactyloid pterosaur Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 from the Solnhofen Limestone Formation of Bavaria, Germany is reviewed. Its nomenclatural history is long and complex,...

• Cadosinopsis rehakovii sp. nov., a new calcareous dinocyst from the Jurassic-Cretaceous transitional interval of the Western Tethys.

  Authors:Agnieszka Ciurej and Marta BakFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 5, 20217,526 words Report 1310LVariegated limestones, a transitional series between red, Upper Jurassic radiolarite and whitish, Lower Cretaceous Maiolica limestone in the Pieniny Klippen Belt deposits in the Polish part of the Western Carpathians,...

• Clumped isotope evidence for Early Jurassic extreme polar warmth and high climate sensitivity.

  Authors:Thomas Letulle, Guillaume Suan, Mathieu Daëron, Mikhail Rogov, Christophe Lécuyer, Arnauld Vinçon-Laugier, et al.From:Climate of the Past (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 4, 2022288 words Brief article Periods of high atmospheric CO.sub.2 levels during the Cretaceous-early Paleogene (â¼ 140 to 34 Myr ago) were marked by very high polar temperatures and reduced latitudinal gradients relative to the Holocene. These...

• Vanished diamondiferous cratonic root beneath the Southern Superior province: evidence from diamond inclusions in the Wawa metaconglomerate

  Authors:Christine E. Miller, Maya G. Kopylova, and John RyderFrom:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 164, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 201211,065 words Author abstract 1450LWe studied diamonds from a 2.697-2.700 Ga Wawa metaconglomerate (Southern Superior craton) and identified mineral inclusions of high-Cr, low-Ca pyrope garnet, low-Ti Mg-chromite, olivine ([Fo.sub.93]), and orthopyroxene...

• Did flowering plants exist in the Jurassic period?

  Authors:David Winship Taylor and Hongqi LiFrom:eLife (Vol. 7) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 18, 20181,493 words Report 1450LThe discovery of a fossil that might be the oldest flowering plant will continue the debate on the origin and structure of ancestral flowering plants. Byline: David Winship Taylor, Hongqi Li...

• Mantle sources and melting processes beneath East Antarctica: geochemical and isotopic (Sr, Nd, Pb, O) characteristics of alkaline and tholeiite basalt from the Earth's southernmost (87° S) volcanoes.

  Authors:K. S. Panter, Y. Li, J. L. Smellie, J. Blusztajn, J. Reindel, K. Odegaard, et al.From:Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (Vol. 177, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 202219,566 words Article 1610LMount Early and Sheridan Bluff (87° S) are the above-ice expression of Earth's southernmost volcanic field and are isolated by > 1000 km from any other exposed Cenozoic volcano in Antarctica. These monogenetic, Early...

• Macbeth without Ambition

  Author:Michael EganFrom:Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (Vol. 49, Issue 2)

  Spring 20131,620 words Article 1220LRichard Whalen (ed.): William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Fully Annotated from an Oxfordian Perspective (Second Edition Revised and Expanded) With an Essay on "Acting Macbeth" by Derek Jacobi. (Llumina Press, 2013) In a...

• The age of Parana flood volcanism, rifting of Gondwanaland, and the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary

  Authors:Paul R. Renne, Marcia Ernesto, Igor G. Pacca, Robert S. Coe, Jonathon M. Glen, Michel Prevot, et al.From:Science (Vol. 258, Issue 5084) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 6, 19923,610 words Article The Parana-Etendeka flood volcanic event produced |1.5 x [10.sup.6] cubic kilometers of volcanic rocks, ranging from basalts to rhyolites, before the separation of South America and Africa during the Cretaceous period....

• From the president: after Ashland

  Author:Tom RegnierFrom:Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (Vol. 51, Issue 4)

  Fall 2015936 words Conference notes 1260LDear Members of the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship, Those of you who attended the SOF's annual conference in Ashland, Oregon, in September will probably agree with me that this was a special conference. It featured...