Fossil Friday Roundup: July 21, 2017

July 21, 2017 PLOS Blogs Fossil Friday Roundup

Featured Image: Illustration of Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis drawn by Mr. Masato Hattori. From Tsogtbaatar et al. (2017). CC-BY.

Papers (All Open Access):

Early evolution of radial glial cells in Bilateria (ProcB)
Ecological interactions in Cloudina from the Ediacaran of Brazil: implications for the rise of animal biomineralization (Scientific Reports)
Classical and new bioerosion trace fossils in Cretaceous belemnite guards characterised via micro-CT (Fossil Record)
Questioning hagfish affinities of the enigmatic Devonian vertebrate Palaeospondylus (RSOS)
Body and skull morphometric variations between two shovel-headed species of Amphisbaenia (Reptilia: Squamata) with morphofunctional inferences on burrowing (PeerJ)
The discovery of Thalattosauria (Reptilia:Diapsida) from the Late Triassic strata of Luxi County,Yunnan Province (Geological Bulletin of China)
On a dinosaur axis from one of the oldest dinosaur-bearing sites worldwide (APP)
The discovery of dinosaur footprints in Jurassic strata from Meigu,Sichuan Province (Geological Bulletin of China)
Megalosauripus transjuranicus ichnosp. nov. A new Late Jurassic theropod ichnotaxon from NW Switzerland and implications for tridactyl dinosaur ichnology and ichnotaxomy (PLOS ONE)
First Ornithomimid (Theropoda, Ornithomimosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Tögrögiin Shiree, Mongolia (Scientific Reports)
Investigating the running abilities of Tyrannosaurus rex using stress-constrained multibody dynamic analysis (PeerJ)
Marsupial brood care in Cretaceous tanaidaceans (Scientific Reports)
Oxygen isotopes suggest elevated thermometabolism within multiple Permo-Triassic therapsid clades (eLife)
Ancient European dog genomes reveal continuity since the Early Neolithic (Nature Communications)
An exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of Thomashuxleya externa (Mammalia, Notoungulata), from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina (PalaeoE)
Range contractions of the world’s large carnivores (RSOS)
Highly variable recurrence of tsunamis in the 7,400 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (Nature Communications)
Strong geologic methane emissions from discontinuous terrestrial permafrost in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada (Scientific Reports)

Preprints:

Are extinction opinions extinct? (PeerJ)
A Tyrannosauroid Metatarsus from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey increases the diversity of non-Tyrannosaurid Tyrannosauroids on Appalachia (PeerJ)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:

Diversity in Paleontology Workshop GoFundMe (Link)
SVP Paleontology Education Workshop (Link)
SVP Women in Paleontology Luncheon (Link)
SVP 2017, August 23–26, Calgary, Alberta (Link)
SVPCA 2017, September 12–15, Birmingham, England (Link)
Principles of Vertebrate Functional Morphology, October 16–20, 2017, Barcelona, Spain (Link)
The Paleontological Society Student Ambassador Program (PS‐SAP), Deadline Sept. 1 (Link)
2017 Election Ballot is Open until August 15 (Paleo Society)
Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum presents Clubs, Horns and Shields: Armored Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals July 1–Oct 28 (Link)
North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)
Letter from Paleontological Society Executives about National Monuments (Paleo Society)

New and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

Guest post: Why Precambrian life suddenly got big (PLOS Paleo)
Follow-up: Pipestone National Monument, Scenella, Cylindrocoelia (Equatorial Minnesota)
Plant fossil found at Park University is 306 million years old and a new species (Link)
The Supracranial Sinus of the Horned Dinosaur Skull (Tetrapod Zoology)
On the Trail of a Dinosaur Sail (Laelaps)
Introducing Daspletosaurus horneri: short video summary (Tyrannosauroidea Central)
Need for Speed: Cretaceous Drift (Palaeocast)
Scientists Name New Species of Dinosaur After Canadian Icon (ROM)
Little Morning Bird (Dr. Neurosaurus)
Checking out Cave Bones (with B. Khameiss) (Updates from the VMNH Paleo Lab)
Fossil Friday – mastodon partial skull (Valley of the Mastodon)
Pinnipeds: Decline of the Monk Seals (Synapsida)
Paleo Profile: The Crown Tooth (Laelaps)
Episode 19: Masrasector—Egypt’s Ancient Slicer! (PastTime)

Museums, Methods, and Musings:

The Paleo Intern Returns! (Guest blog by Madison) (Updates from the VMNH Paleo Lab)
How well do stable isotopes really work? (Time Scavengers)
Early Fossil Sites – 150 things about Canadian palaeo, part 15 (Musings of a Clumsy Paleontologist)
Episode 13 – The Fossil Preparation Lab (Common Descent)
From Mud to Microfossils: Processing Samples (Time Scavengers)
How should museum’s organize their fossils? (Extinct)
How a T. rex Travels from Gallery to Storage (Inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum)
What actions can we take to push for publishing reform and incentivise open publishing practices? (PeerJ Blog)
Grand Staircase-Escalante was set up to fail (High Country News)
Can’t Have Just One (Old Bones – SVP Blog)

Featured Folks and Fieldwork:

Helen Habicht, Molecular Paleoclimatologist (Time Scavengers)
A 9-Year-Old Tripped, Fell and Discovered a Million-Year-Old Fossil (NY Times)
Geological Society of America honors Sterling Nesbitt with Young Scientist Award (Link)

Arts, Books, Culture, and Fun:

Take a “Dinosaur Expedition” at the Lake Compounce Amusement Park! (Dave’s Dinosaurs)
That Time I Won a Beer Art Contest Because of Dinosaurs (PBW)
From Sketch to painting: “Ultra-sketches” (Chasing Sabretooths)
Vintage Dinosaur Art: Tyrannosaurus Sex: A Love Tail (Omni magazine, Feb 1988) (LITC)
Paleoart: the strange history of dinosaurs in art – in pictures (The Guardian)

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