Fossil Friday Roundup: December 16, 2016

Featured Image: A new species of armored trumpetfish from Mexico, from Cantalice and Alvarado-Ortega (2016), first paper.

Papers (All Open Access):

• Eekaulostomus cuevasae gen. and sp. nov., an ancient armored trumpetfish (Aulostomoidea) from Danian (Paleocene) marine deposits of Belisario Domínguez, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico (Palaeontologia Electronica)
• Retreat and extinction of the Late Pleistocene cave bear (Ursus spelaeus sensu lato) (Science of Nature)
• The archaeology of persistent places: the Palaeolithic case of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey (Antiquity)
• A New Chytridiomycete Fungus Intermixed with Crustacean Resting Eggs in a 407-Million-Year-Old Continental Freshwater Environment (PLOS ONE)
• Laser Fluorescence Illuminates the Soft Tissue and Life Habits of the Early Cretaceous Bird Confuciusornis (PLOS ONE)
• A basal ceratopsid (Centrosaurinae: Nasutoceratopsini) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian) of Alberta, Canada (Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences)

News:

• Paleontologist Phil Currie awarded the Governor General’s Meritorious Service Cross (Link)
• Editorial: Media Outlets Bury Ants With Dinosaur Tail (Link)
• Right after an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, life returned to the scene of the crime (Link)
• French museum employee sold stolen fossils online (Link)
• The touchy subject of high-priced dinosaurs (Link)

Society Events, Meetings, Announcements, and Updates:

• 2nd International Meeting of Early-Stage Researchers In Paleontology, May 19–22, 2017, Sigri, Greece
• Tomography for Scientific Advancement North America 2017 Symposium, June 6–8, 2017, Austin, Texas

Around the Blogosphere:

• A New Exposed Trackway on the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon (Earthly Musings)
• The giant troodontid dinosaurs of Alaska (Earth Archives)
• Becoming a Vertebrate Paleontologist in Argentina (SVP Blog)
• PRPA Draft Rules: Why Should You Care or Comment? (SVP Blog)
• More Bugs! (Updates from the VMNH Paleontology Lab)
• Fossil Crocs of the Science Museum (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Birds in Amber – Part 2 (Dr. Neurosaurus)
• Where are BZN issues? What is happening with the Diplodocus petition? Is anyone home at the ICZN? (SV-POW)
• Historical Sciences and “Great Man” Approaches to History (Extinct)
• New footprints from Laetoli and improving the science of fossil context (John Hawks Weblog)
• Hopeful Dinosaurs (Waxing Paleontological)
• Tales Writen in Leaves, Part I – Blaming the Bolide (Fossils and Other Living Things)
• Minute Trace Fossils Offer Major Implications For Extinction Recovery (Mostly Mammoths, Mummies, and Museums)
• Future-Oriented Paleontology at the La Brea Tar Pits (Center for the Future of Museums)
• Iberian lynx: the value of the individual (Chasing Sabretooths)
• Why were there so many dinosaur species? (The Conversation)
• Trowelblazers: Leslie Aiello (Trowelbazers)

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