Fossil Friday Roundup: October 28, 2016
Papers (all Open Access):
- The first oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) bonebed: evidence of gregarious behaviour in a maniraptoran theropod (Scientific Reports)
- Deciduous dentition and dental eruption sequence of Bothriogenys fraasi (Anthracotheriidae, Artiodactyla) from the Fayum Depression, Egypt (PalaeoE)
- OH-65: The earliest evidence for right-handedness in the fossil record (Journal of Human Evolution)
- Rodents: food or pests in Neolithic Orkney (RSOS)
- The first fossil parrot (Aves, Psittaciformes) from Siberia and its implications for the historical biogeography of Psittaciformes (Biology Letters)
- A toothed turtle from the Late Jurassic of China and the global biogeographic history of turtles (BMC Evol Biol)
- Non-linear ontogenetic shape change in Cryptolithus tesselatus (Trilobita) using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics (PalaeoE)
- New fossils of Hyaenodonta (Mammalia) from the Eocene localities of Chambi (Tunisia) and Bir el Ater (Algeria), and the evolution of the earliest African hyaenodonts (PalaeoE)
- Ephippia belonging to Ceriodaphnia Dana, 1853 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Daphniidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Australia (PalaeoE)
- Graphic correlation of the upper Eifelian to lower Frasnian (Middle-Upper Devonian) conodont sequences in the Spanish Central Pyrenees and comparison with composite standards from other areas (PalaeoE)
- Palaeoamyda messeliana nov. comb. (Testudines, Pan-Trionychidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit and Geiseltal localities, Germany, taxonomic and phylogenetic insights (PeerJ)
- Remarkable preservation of brain tissues in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur (Geological Society Special Publication)
- Under the Skin of a Lion: Unique Evidence of Upper Paleolithic Exploitation and Use of Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea) from the Lower Gallery of La Garma (Spain) (PLOS ONE)
News:
- Huge new dinosaur hints at when sauropods arrived Down Under (Link)
- Early fossil fish from China shows where our jaws came from (Link)
- Mistaken Identity? Debate Over Ancient 4-Legged Snake Heats Up (Link)
- Eyes came before limbs in the transition to land (Link)
Around the Blogosphere:
- A New Series (Dr. Neurosaurus)
- Wacky Hole (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
- Why don’t they call it “Stagnating Selection”? (Extinct)
- Fossil Dinosaur Brain Tissue Identified (Letters from Gondwana)
- Time Traveling in London (Paige Fossil History)
- The Turducken of Fossils (Laelaps)
- Paleo Profile: The Armored Fish King (Laelaps)
- Paleo Profile: North America’s Pangolin (Laelaps)
- Why Vertebrate Paleontologists Don’t Believe Anything (SVP Blog)
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Featured image: Paleontologists flocked to NHMU during the Welcome Reception at 2016 SVP. Image by Sarah Gibson.