Johan Lindgren
Molecular palaeobiology is an emerging geobiological discipline directed towards the study of multimillion-year-old biomolecules and tissues that could provide information on the evolutionary history, biology and ecology of both ancient and modern organisms. I am leading a research group that has specialised in investigating the molecular content, ultrastructure and preservation of both biomineralised and non-biomineralised tissues, such as skin, feathers and bone. A particular focus is given to proteinaceous and/or pigmented organic matter, and those taphonomic pathways enabling its survival across geological time. A range of exceptionally preserved fossils representing different types of animals, time periods and burial conditions are examined; however, my main interest pertains to large-scale evolutionary patterns within various Mesozoic marine reptile lineages, including ichthyosaurs (‘fish-lizards’), mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. My research employs a suite of state-of-the-art analytical techniques, and its cross-disciplinary nature gives me the opportunity (and great pleasure) to work in close collaboration with leading scientists from many other fields, including biologists, chemists and physicists at the Department of Biology (Lund, Sweden), MAX IV laboratory (Lund, Sweden), RISE (Borås, Sweden), North Carolina State University (Raleigh, USA), Fujita Health University (Toyoake, Japan), and University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany).
Publications
Retrieved from Lund University's publications database
Publications
- 2020
- A polar dinosaur feather assemblage from Australia
(2020) Gondwana Research
Journal article - Minnesord Sven Stridsberg
(2020) Geologiskt forum
Other - The fossil alga Chaetocladus gracilis revisited : new material from the Silurian of Sweden
(2020) GFF
Journal article
- A polar dinosaur feather assemblage from Australia
- 2019
- Fossil insect eyes shed light on trilobite optics and the arthropod pigment screen
(2019) Nature
Journal article (letter) - Morphological and phylogenetic aspects of the dentition of Megacephalosaurus eulerti, a pliosaurid from the Turonian of Kansas, USA, with remarks on the cranial anatomy of the taxon
(2019) Geological Magazine
Journal article - Multi-proxy analyses of Late Cretaceous coprolites from Germany
(2019) Lethaia
Journal article
- Fossil insect eyes shed light on trilobite optics and the arthropod pigment screen
- 2018
- Preservation potential of keratin in deep time
(2018) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Reassessment of the Styxosaurus snowii (Williston, 1890) holotype specimen and its implications for elasmosaurid plesiosaurian interrelationships
(2018) Alcheringa
Journal article - Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur
(2018) Nature
Journal article
- Preservation potential of keratin in deep time
- 2017
- Biochemistry and adaptive colouration of an exceptionally preserved juvenile fossil sea turtle
(2017) Scientific Reports
Journal article - Molecular and microstructural inventory of an isolated fossil bird feather from the Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark
(2017) Palaeontology
Journal article
- Biochemistry and adaptive colouration of an exceptionally preserved juvenile fossil sea turtle
- 2016
- An introduction to the Mesozoic biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic territories
(2016) Geological Society Special Publication
Book chapter - Fossil pigments
(2016) Current Biology
Journal article
- An introduction to the Mesozoic biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic territories
- 2015
- Cenomanian-Campanian (Late Cretaceous) mid-palaeolatitude sharks of Cretalamna appendiculata type
(2015) Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Journal article - Interpreting melanin-based coloration through deep time: a critical review.
(2015) Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Journal article review - Melanosomes and ancient coloration re-examined: A response to Vinther 2015 (DOI 10.1002/bies.201500018).
(2015) BioEssays
Journal article - Molecular composition and ultrastructure of Jurassic paravian feathers.
(2015) Scientific Reports
Journal article - New aristonectine elasmosaurid plesiosaur specimens from the Early Maastrichtian of Angola and comments on paedomorphism in plesiosaurs
(2015) Netherlands Journal of Geosciences-Geologie en Mijnbouw
Journal article
- Cenomanian-Campanian (Late Cretaceous) mid-palaeolatitude sharks of Cretalamna appendiculata type
- 2014
- Dental histology of mosasaurs and a marine crocodylian from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of southern Sweden: incremental growth lines and dentine formation rates
(2014) Geological Magazine
Journal article - Occurrence and fate of fatty acyl biomarkers in an ancient whale bone (Oligocene, El Cien Formation, Mexico)
(2014) Organic Geochemistry
Journal article - Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles.
(2014) Nature
Journal article
- Dental histology of mosasaurs and a marine crocodylian from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of southern Sweden: incremental growth lines and dentine formation rates
- 2013
- Aquatic adaptation, cranial kinesis, and the skull of the mosasaurine mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni
(2013) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Journal article - Food resources and habitat selection of a diverse vertebrate fauna from the upper lower Campanian of the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden
(2013) Cretaceous Research
Journal article - Microanatomical and Histological Features in the Long Bones of Mosasaurine Mosasaurs (Reptilia, Squamata) - Implications for Aquatic Adaptation and Growth Rates
(2013) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Mid-Cretaceous Cretoxyrhina (Elasmobranchii) from Mangyshlak, Kazakhstan and Texas, USA
(2013) Alcheringa
Journal article - Risk and vulnerability analysis : A feasible process for local climate adaptation in Sweden?
(2013) Local Environment
Journal article - Soft tissue preservation in a fossil marine lizard with a bilobed tail fin
(2013) Nature Communications
Journal article
- Aquatic adaptation, cranial kinesis, and the skull of the mosasaurine mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni
- 2012
- Description of new specimens of Halisaurus arambourgi BARDET & PEREDA SUBERBIOLA, 2005 and the relationships of Halisaurinae
(2012) Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
Journal article - Molecular preservation of the pigment melanin in fossil melanosomes.
(2012) Nature Communications
Journal article - Platecarpus tympaniticus (Squamata, Mosasauridae): osteology of an exceptionally preserved specimen and its insights into the acquisition of a streamlined body shape in mosasaurs
(2012) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Journal article
- Description of new specimens of Halisaurus arambourgi BARDET & PEREDA SUBERBIOLA, 2005 and the relationships of Halisaurinae
- 2011
- Coprolite morphotypes from the Upper Cretaceous of Sweden: novel views on an ancient ecosystem and implications for coprolite taphonomy
(2011) Lethaia
Journal article - First chelonian eggs and carapace fragments from the Pliocene of Rhodes, Greece
(2011) Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen
Journal article - Integrated higher education in palaeontology: bridging the academic gap between Denmark and Sweden
(2011) European Geologist
Conference paper: abstract - Landlubbers to leviathans: evolution of swimming in mosasaurine mosasaurs
(2011) Paleobiology
Journal article - Microspectroscopic evidence of cretaceous bone proteins.
(2011) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Three-dimensionally preserved integument reveals hydrodynamic adaptations in the extinct marine lizard ectenosaurus (reptilia, mosasauridae).
(2011) PLoS ONE
Journal article
- Coprolite morphotypes from the Upper Cretaceous of Sweden: novel views on an ancient ecosystem and implications for coprolite taphonomy
- 2010
- Att äta eller ätas?
(2010) Geologiskt Forum
Journal article - Convergent evolution in aquatic tetrapods: insights from an exceptional fossil mosasaur.
(2010) PLoS ONE
Journal article - Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates
(2010) Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Journal article - Mosasaur bite marks on a plesiosaur propodial from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of southern Sweden
(2010) GFF
Journal article - New Material of Prognathodon (Squamata: Mosasauridae), and the Mosasaur Assemblage of the Maastrichtian of California, USA
(2010) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Journal article
- Att äta eller ätas?
- 2009
- Cranial Osteology Of The Giant Mosasaur Plesiotylosaurus (Squamata, Mosasauridae)
(2009) Journal of Paleontology
Journal article - Lower Cretaceous Mesoeucrocodylians from Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden)
(2009) Cretaceous Research
Journal article - Skin of the Cretaceous mosasaur Plotosaurus: implications for aquatic adaptations in giant marine reptiles.
(2009) Biology letters
Journal article
- Cranial Osteology Of The Giant Mosasaur Plesiotylosaurus (Squamata, Mosasauridae)
- 2008
- Convergence Of Gigantism In Mosasaurs Does Not Reflect A Convergence Of Growth Strategy
(2008) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Conference paper: abstract - Theropod dinosaur teeth from the lowermost Cretaceous Rabekke Formation on Bornholm, Denmark
(2008) Geobios
Journal article
- Convergence Of Gigantism In Mosasaurs Does Not Reflect A Convergence Of Growth Strategy
- 2007
- A fishy mosasaur: the axial skeleton of Plotosaurus (Reptilia, Squamata) reassessed
(2007) Lethaia
Journal article - Anacoracid sharks from the Albian (lower cretaceous) Pawpaw shale of Texas
(2007) Palaeontology
Journal article - First record of Halisaurus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Pacific Coast of North America
(2007) Paleobios
Journal article - The first neoceratopsian dinosaur remains from Europe
(2007) Palaeontology
Journal article
- A fishy mosasaur: the axial skeleton of Plotosaurus (Reptilia, Squamata) reassessed
- 2005
- Amphibians and small reptiles from the Berriasian Rabekke formation on Bornholm, Denmark
(2005) GFF
Journal article - Aquatic birds from the Upper Cretaceous (Lower Campanian) of Sweden and the biology and distribution of hesperornithiforms
(2005) Palaeontology
Journal article - Danish mosasaurs
(2005) Netherlands Journal of Geosciences-Geologie en Mijnbouw
Journal article - Dental and vertebral morphology of the enigmatic mosasaur Dollosaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae) from the lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of southern Sweden
(2005) Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark
Journal article - Halisaurus sternbergi, a small mosasaur with an intercontinental distribution
(2005) Journal of Paleontology
Journal article - Late cretaceous sharks Cretoxyrhina and Cardabiodon from Montana, USA
(2005) Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Journal article - New records of the tylosaurine mosasaur Hainosaurus from the (Late Cretaceous) of central Poland
(2005) Netherlands Journal of Geosciences-Geologie en Mijnbouw
Journal article - The first record of Hainosaurus (Reptilia : Mosasauridae) from Sweden
(2005) Journal of Paleontology
Journal article
- Amphibians and small reptiles from the Berriasian Rabekke formation on Bornholm, Denmark
- 2004
- Early Campanian mosasaurs (Reptilia; Mosasauridae) from the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden
(2004) Litholund theses
Dissertation - Stratigraphical distribution of Campanian and Maastrichtian mosasaurs in Sweden - evidence of an intercontinental marine extinction event?
(2004) GFF
Journal article - The first record of the mosasaur Clidastes from Europe and its palaeogeographical implications
(2004) Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Journal article
- Early Campanian mosasaurs (Reptilia; Mosasauridae) from the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden
- 2002
- Tylosaurus ivoensis: a giant mosasaur from the early Campanian of Sweden
(2002) Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth Sciences
Journal article review
- Tylosaurus ivoensis: a giant mosasaur from the early Campanian of Sweden
