 Fossils
"Fossils" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Remains, impressions, or traces of animals or plants of past geological times which have been preserved in the earth's crust.
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D005580
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.076.368.584.311
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fossils" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fossils" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1988 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1989 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1993 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1999 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2000 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2001 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2002 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2003 | 6 | 2 | 8 | | 2004 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2005 | 7 | 1 | 8 | | 2006 | 17 | 3 | 20 | | 2007 | 7 | 9 | 16 | | 2008 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2009 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2010 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2011 | 11 | 3 | 14 | | 2012 | 7 | 3 | 10 | | 2013 | 12 | 11 | 23 | | 2014 | 12 | 9 | 21 | | 2015 | 16 | 8 | 24 | | 2016 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2017 | 8 | 5 | 13 | | 2018 | 8 | 6 | 14 | | 2019 | 6 | 7 | 13 | | 2020 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fossils" by people in Profiles.
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Cullen TM, Canale JI, Apesteguía S, Smith ND, Hu D, Makovicky PJ. Osteohistological analyses reveal diverse strategies of theropod dinosaur body-size evolution. Proc Biol Sci. 2020 11 25; 287(1939):20202258.
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Hamm CA, Hampe O, Schwarz D, Witzmann F, Makovicky PJ, Brochu CA, Reiter R, Asbach P. A comprehensive diagnostic approach combining phylogenetic disease bracketing and CT imaging reveals osteomyelitis in a Tyrannosaurus rex. Sci Rep. 2020 11 03; 10(1):18897.
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Negash EW, Alemseged Z, Bobe R, Grine F, Sponheimer M, Wynn JG. Dietary trends in herbivores from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 09 08; 117(36):21921-21927.
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Wynn JG, Alemseged Z, Bobe R, Grine FE, Negash EW, Sponheimer M. Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C4 foods in eastern African Paranthropus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 09 08; 117(36):21978-21984.
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Alemseged Z, Wynn JG, Geraads D, Reed D, Andrew Barr W, Bobe R, McPherron SP, Deino A, Alene M, J Sier M, Roman D, Mohan J. Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins. Nat Commun. 2020 05 19; 11(1):2480.
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Huang JD, Motani R, Jiang DY, Ren XX, Tintori A, Rieppel O, Zhou M, Hu YC, Zhang R. Repeated evolution of durophagy during ichthyosaur radiation after mass extinction indicated by hidden dentition. Sci Rep. 2020 05 08; 10(1):7798.
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McCoy VE, Wiemann J, Lamsdell JC, Whalen CD, Lidgard S, Mayer P, Petermann H, Briggs DEG. Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois. Geobiology. 2020 09; 18(5):560-565.
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Lockey AL, Alemseged Z, Hublin JJ, Skinner MM. Maxillary molar enamel thickness of Plio-Pleistocene hominins. J Hum Evol. 2020 05; 142:102731.
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Stewart TA, Lemberg JB, Taft NK, Yoo I, Daeschler EB, Shubin NH. Fin ray patterns at the fin-to-limb transition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 01 21; 117(3):1612-1620.
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Du A, Rowan J, Wang SC, Wood BA, Alemseged Z. Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates: A case study examining the Australopithecus anamensis-afarensis lineage. J Hum Evol. 2020 01; 138:102688.
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