Featured contributors
Here are some Database members who have entered data and/or supervised data entry recently. See also our full list of contributors and our list of contributing institutions.
 Smithsonian Institution, United States Latest reference: M. Masrour, F. Pérez-Lorente, S. Ferry, N. Içame, and D. Grosheny. 2013. First dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of the western High Atlas. Geogaceta 53:33-36  University of California, Santa Cruz, United States Latest reference: Q. B. Lin. 1978. On the fossil Blattoidea of China. Acta Entomologica Sinica 21(3):335-342 Alexander Doweld
National Institute of Carpology, Russia Latest reference: A. B. Doweld. 2013. (2152–2174) Proposals to conserve the names Abiespollenites, Alatisporites, Apiculatasporites, Cicatricosisporites, Densosporites, Elongatosporites, Faguspollenites, Gnetaceaepollenites, Granulatisporites, Juglanspollenites, Palaeoavena, Piceaepollenites, Poacordaites, Pseudoaraucaria, Quercipollenites, Sabalpollenites, Sequoiapollenites, Setosisporites, Sparganiaceaepollenites, Tuberculatisporites, Ulmipollenites, Valvisporites, Verrucosisporites (fossil plants), all hyphenated when published, with these spellings. Taxon 62(3):638-642 Carlos Jaramillo
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama Latest reference: A. A. Carlini, G. J. Scillato-Yané, and R. Sánchez. 2006. New Mylodontoidea (Xenarthra, Phyllophaga) from the Middle Miocene-Pliocene of Venezuela. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4(3):255-267  Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Latest reference: A. Rosso and R. Sanfilippo. 2005. Bryozoans and serpuloideans in skeletobiont communities from the Pleistocene of Sicily: spatial utilisation and competitive interactions. Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Ferrara Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica |
Philip Mannion
Imperial College London, United Kingdom Latest reference: M. Delfino and M. A. Rossi. 2013. Fossil crocodylid remains from Scontrone (Tortonian, Southern Italy) and the late Neogene Mediterranean biogeography of crocodylians. Geobios 46:25-31  Kent State University, United States Latest reference: M. Takeda. 1983. Three Decapod Crustaceans from the Lower Cretaceous Miyako Group, Northern Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Toyoko (4)129-136  George Mason University, United States Latest reference: F. G. Marx. 2011. The More the Merrier? A Large Cladistic Analysis of Mysticetes, and Comments on the Transition from Teeth to Baleen. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18:77-100  Smithsonian Institution, United States Latest reference: V. Bertero. 2009. First record of Malayaspira Kobayashi, 1958 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Lower-Middle Ordovician San Juan Formation, Argentine Precordillera. Ameghiniana 46(3):567-571 |