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  1. Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data
  2. Experimental taphonomy of Artemia reveals the role of endogenous microbes in mediating decay and fossilization
  3. Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity?
  4. Calibration uncertainty in molecular dating analyses: there is no substitute for the prior evaluation of time priors
  5. The ins and outs of the evolutionary origin of teeth
  6. Early vertebrate evolution
  7. Developmental paleobiology of the vertebrate skeleton
  8. There is no general model for occlusal kinematics in conodonts
  9. A virtual world of paleontology
  10. Evolutionary history of plant microRNAs
  11. Finite element, occlusal, microwear and microstructural analyses indicate that conodont microstructure is adapted to dental function
  12. Evaluating scenarios for the evolutionary assembly of the brachiopod body plan
  13. The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons
  14. A divergence dating analysis of turtles using fossil calibrations: an example of best practices
  15. A daily-updated tree of (sequenced) life as a reference for genome research
  16. "Fascinating Little Whatzits"
  17. Histology of “placoderm” dermal skeletons: Implications for the nature of the ancestral gnathostome
  18. Development of teeth and jaws in the earliest jawed vertebrates
  19. A merciful death for the “earliest bilaterian,” Vernanimalcula
  20. Do miRNAs have a deep evolutionary history?
  21. Morphology, Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Fossil Fishes . Honoring Meemann Chang. Edited by David K. Elliott, John G. Maisey, Xiaobo Yu, and Desui Miao. München (Germany): Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. €120.00. 472 p.; ill.; index of taxa. ISBN: 97...
  22. New palaeoscolecid worms from the Furongian (upper Cambrian) of Hunan, South China: is Markuelia an embryonic palaeoscolecid?
  23. Ontogeny and microstructure of the enigmatic Cambrian tommotiid Sunnaginia Missarzhevsky, 1969
  24. M. Laflamme, J. D. Schiffbauer, S. Q. Dorbos (eds) 2011. Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems. Topics in Geobiology 36. xx + 462 pp. Springer. £135.00, US$209.00 (HB). ISBN 97...
  25. Teeth before jaws? Comparative analysis of the structure and development of the external and internal scales in the extinct jawless vertebrate Loganellia scotica
  26. Presentation of the 2010 Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Philip C. J. Donoghue
  27. Fossil jawless fish from China foreshadows early jawed vertebrate anatomy
  28. Establishing a time‐scale for plant evolution
  29. Evolutionary Origins of Animal Skeletal Biomineralization
  30. The anatomy, taphonomy, taxonomy and systematic affinity of Markuelia: Early Cambrian to Early Ordovician scalidophorans
  31. Origins of multicellularity
  32. Are palaeoscolecids ancestral ecdysozoans?
  33. A formula for maximum possible steps in multistate characters: isolating matrix parameter effects on measures of evolutionary convergence
  34. S17-05 Embryos and ancestors
  35. Skeletal histology of Bothriolepis canadensis (Placodermi, Antiarchi) and evolution of the skeleton at the origin of jawed vertebrates
  36. The Evolutionary Emergence of Vertebrates From Among Their Spineless Relatives
  37. Origin and evolution of the integumentary skeleton in non‐tetrapod vertebrates
  38. Scanning Electron Microscopy and Synchrotron Radiation X-Ray Tomographic Microscopy of 330 Million Year Old Charcoalified Seed Fern Fertile Organs
  39. Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils
  40. ONTOGENY AND TAPHONOMY: AN EXPERIMENTAL TAPHONOMY STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRINE SHRIMP ARTEMIA SALINA
  41. The anatomy, affinity and phylogenetic significance ofIlemoraspis kirkinskayae(Osteostraci) from the Devonian of Siberia
  42. The origin and evolution of the neural crest
  43. Deciphering the fossil record of early bilaterian embryonic development in light of experimental taphonomy
  44. The interrelationships of ‘complex’ conodonts (Vertebrata)
  45. Phase-contrast X-ray microtomography links Cretaceous seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales
  46. Rocks and clocks: calibrating the Tree of Life using fossils and molecules
  47. MOLECULAR PALAEOBIOLOGY
  48. The earliest fossil embryos begin to mature
  49. A technique for conodont histology
  50. Conchodontus, Mitrellataxis and Fungulodus: Conodonts, fish or both?
  51. Conodont anatomy, chordate phylogeny and vertebrate classification
  52. Embryonic identity crisis
  53. The homology and phylogeny of chondrichthyan tooth enameloid
  54. Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos
  55. The ‘Orsten’—More than a Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätte yielding exceptional preservation
  56. Early evolution of vertebrate skeletal tissues and cellular interactions, and the canalization of skeletal development
  57. Fossilized embryos are widespread but the record is temporally and taxonomically biased
  58. Histology of the galeaspid dermoskeleton and endoskeleton, and the origin and early evolution of the vertebrate cranial endoskeleton
  59. The anatomy, affinity, and phylogenetic significance of Markuelia
  60. BASAL TISSUE STRUCTURE IN THE EARLIEST EUCONODONTS: TESTING HYPOTHESES OF DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY IN EUCONODONT PHYLOGENY
  61. Saving the stem group—a contradiction in terms?
  62. Book Review
  63. Fossil embryos from the Middle and Late Cambrian period of Hunan, south China
  64. Origin and early evolution of vertebrate skeletonization
  65. Evolution of development of the vertebrate dermal and oral skeletons: unraveling concepts, regulatory theories, and homologies
  66. Corrigendum
  67. CONODONTS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
  68. The anatomy of Turinia pagei (Powrie), and the phylogenetic status of the Thelodonti
  69. Conodonts Meet Cladistics: Recovering Relationships and Assessing the Completeness of the Conodont Fossil Record
  70. Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny
  71. Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny
  72. ORIENTATION AND ANATOMICAL NOTATION IN CONODONTS
  73. Growth, function, and the conodont fossil record
  74. Conodonts: A Sister Group to Hagfishes?
  75. Conodonts and the first vertebrates