Virtual Fossil Museum New Fossils & Pages

Virtual Fossil Museum
New Fossils & Pages

Editing and Page Revisions

2015 Virtual Fossil Museum Chronology

Some ongoing work:

Trying to keep up with the scientific literature is both laborious, and expensive given, the cost of access to scientific journals, especially paleontological journals. Fortunately, major developments appear in the high impact journals like Nature and Science, which are also more rigorously peer reviewed and reliable. Nonetheless, new finding that generate a lot of excitement are soon in dispute (often for a very long time), and ultimately denied by yet newer research findings. One finds in the literature that there are a great deal of inconsistencies, especially with respect to when certain life forms appear in the fossil record, and even the taxonomic placement of fossils. In so many cases, a consensus simply does not exist (not that scientists in disagreement take a democratic vote on the matter). In a recent review of the Virtual Fossil Museum we found a lot of inconsistencies with regard to geologic of evolutionary milestones. Generally speaking, these inconsistencies are commensurate with the literature. We also found that the same and even worse date conflicts are abundant in Wikipedia. Nonetheless, we keep trying, so the Paleobiology page is being constantly revised. In November, 2015 we began a new page titled: Evolution of Life Forms - Evolutionary New Appearances. We are hoping this page will help us keep more current and consistent, by filing reference notes, and where we can give date ranged where consensus is not immediately and well known. It may take a long time to complete this work.

Other ungoing new pages or updates: Chelicerata and Arachnida Evolution Class Trilobita Anomalocarids and Anomalocaris Michael's Evolutionary Biology Anecdotes

November 2016

Bondonella szduyi Early Cambrian Redlichiida Trilobite from Morocco

December 2015

Evolution of Camouflage and Stealth

November 2015

Michael's anecdotes of evolution page
Marlena's eclectic fossils page

November 2015

Margaretia dorus Fossil Algae from Wheeler Shale Formation
Yuknessia Cambrian Explosion Hemichordate Fossil from Utah
Rare Cycadeoidea Jurassic Cycad Tree Trunk from Morrison Formation
Fuxianhuia protensa Arthropod Death Assemblage from Chengjiang
Scientific Illustrations of Ernst Haeckel update
Kingdom Plantae Tree of Life update
Fossil Crinoids from Crawfordsville, Indiana update
Lobopodia Update
Rare Anomalocaris Oral Disc from Cambrian Utah
Enigmatic Castericystis vali Carpoid Fossil from Marjum Formation
Rhenocystis Enigmatic Devonian Carpoid Fossil from Bundenbach
Carpoid Evolution
Trilobite of the Month: Walliserops trifurcatus, a Devonian Phacopid Trilobite Evolutionary Enigma

June through October 2015

After a decade and a half, it finally happened, we over wrote some files, including this page listing new and changed pages. Multiple people working on the same website has its hazards, and its really not worth trying to reconstract.

May 2015

Mesolimulus walchi Horseshoe Crab Fossil from the famous Solnhofen Lagerstätte
Live Horseshoe Crabs
Ostracoda Scientific Illustration
Muscinae Scientific Illustration by Ernst Haeckel
Scientific Illustrations of Ernst Haeckel
Osteolepis macrolepidotus Devonian Fossil Fish Tetrapod Ancestor from Scotland
Alalcomenaeus Opabinid Arthropod from Maotianshan Shales
Rare Primicaris larvaformis Chengjiang Biota Arthropod - May 2015 Fossils of the Month
Praying Mantis and Other Insects in Fossil Amber