Fossil Friday Roundup: November 25, 2016
Papers (All Open Access):
- Systematics of the genus Palaeictops Matthew, 1899 (Mammalia, Leptictidae), with the description of two new species from the Middle Eocene of Utah and Wyoming. (American Museum Novitates)
- Draft genome of the living fossil Ginkgo biloba (GigaScience)
- New Plants from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Group, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province, China (PLOS ONE)
- The Late Devonian placoderm Aspidichthys Newberry, 1873 from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland (Fossil Record)
- Novel structure in sciaenid fish skulls indicates continuous production of the cephalic neuromast cupula (Scientific Reports)
- Latitudinal diversity gradients in Mesozoic non-marine turtles (RSOS)
- A revision of tetrapod footprints from the late Carboniferous of the West Midlands, UK (PeerJ)
- New data towards the development of a comprehensive taphonomic framework for the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry (PeerJ Preprints)
- Seasonal Cyclicity in Trace Elements and Stable Isotopes of Modern Horse Enamel (PLOS ONE)
- Inferring diet from dental morphology in terrestrial mammals (Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
- Patterns in Palaeontology: From giants to dwarfs – Estimating the body mass of extinct species (Palaeontology Online)
News:
- County covers dino museum deficit (Link)
- Paleontologist discovers mosasaur fossil in South Dakota (Link)
- Find the Whale and the Bathroom With the Natural History Museum App (Link)
- Unearthing a Giant Marine Reptile (Link)
- A Surprising New Theory of How Dinosaurs Got So Huge (Link)
Society Events, Meetings, Announcements, and Updates:
Around the Blogosphere:
- Yes, sauropod neck vertebrae got longer as the animals grew up (SV-POW!)
- Artificial species selection (Extinct)
- Photogrammetry, a Don’t Do This guide to 3D modelling (Mary Anning’s Revenge)
- Researching Fossil Ungulate Communities (Mostly Mammoths, Mummies and Museums)
- Meanwhile, over at the Science Museum (Equatorial Minnesota)
- Taking a 21st Century Look at Dimetrodon (Skeletal Drawing)
- Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs of the Southwest – Part 2 (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
- 50 Shades of Gray (whale, that is) (Mace Brown Museum of Natural History Blog)
- Dental Detectives Identify New Species from a Lone Tooth Fossil (GrrlScientist)
- An Open Letter from and to Female Scientists (Scientific American)
- SVP in SLC (Pseudocephalus)
- Tet Zoo Bookshelf November 2016: of Flying Dinosaurs, Extraordinary Birds, and Camera Traps (Tetrapod Zoology)
- A Toast to Darwin’s Origin & Lucy’s Discovery (Paige Fossil History)
- She Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore (Dr. Neurosaurus)
- A Brief Introduction to the Early Dinosaurs from Argentina (Letters from Gondwana)
- Meet the frail, small-brained people who first trekked out of Africa (ScienceMag)
- Paleo Profile: the Mud Dragon (Laelaps)
- Scavenger vs Scavenger (Laelaps)
- Ice Age Enemies (Laelaps)
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Featured image: Lower jaw of Palaeictops. From Velazco and Novacek (2016).