Fossil Friday Roundup: March 9, 2018
Featured Image: Artist’s reconstruction of the Permian reptile Captorhinus with an autotomous tail (inset showing anterior caudal vertebrae with fracture planes). Reconstruction by Danielle Dufault. From LeBlanc et al (2018). CC-BY.
Papers (All Open Access):
- First endemic freshwater Gammarus from Crete and its evolutionary history—an integrative taxonomy approach (PeerJ)
- Development and evolution of tooth renewal in neoselachian sharks as a model for transformation in chondrichthyan dentitions (Journal of Anatomy)
- New fossil fish microremains from the Upper Carboniferous of eastern North Greenland (Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark)
- Eoalosa janvieri gen. et sp. nov., a new clupeid fish (Teleostei, Clupeiformes) from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy (PalZ)
- Delineating modern variation from extinct morphology in the fossil record using shells of the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina) (PLOS ONE)
- Caudal autotomy as anti-predatory behaviour in Palaeozoic reptiles (Scientific Reports)
- Comparative limb proportions reveal differential locomotor morphofunctions of alligatoroids and crocodyloids (RSOS)
- The earliest evidence for a supraorbital salt gland in dinosaurs in new Early Cretaceous ornithurines (Scientific Reports)
- A diminutive perinate European Enantiornithes reveals an asynchronous ossification pattern in early birds (Nature Communications)
- Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species (RSOS)
- A new group of late Oligocene mysticetes from México (PalaeoE)
- A new middle Miocene crocidosoricine shrew from the Mongolian Shargain Gobi Desert (APP)
- Distinguishing Quaternary glyptodontine cingulates in South America: How informative are juvenile specimens? (APP)
- Quadrupedal locomotor simulation: producing more realistic gaits using dual-objective optimization (RSOS)
- Ecological opportunity and predator–prey interactions: linking eco-evolutionary processes and diversification in adaptive radiations (ProcB)
- The influence of environmental forcing on biodiversity and extinction in a resource competition model (Chaos)
- Comparing spatial diversification and meta-population models in the Indo-Australian Archipelago (RSOS)
Pre-Prints and Post-Prints:
- Nuevos hallazgos de los moluscos Nemrac carmenensis Clark 1946 (Gastropoda, Turbinoidea, Turbinidae) y Solena (Eosolen) bolivarensis Clark 1946 (Bivalvia – Solenida – Solenidae) (PaleorXiv)
- The cranial endocast of the Upper Devonian dipnoan Chirodipterus australis (PeerJ)
- A new genus and species of eomysticetid (Cetacea: Mysticeti) and a reinterpretation of ‘Mauicetus’ lophocephalus Marples, 1956: transitional baleen whales from the upper Oligocene of New Zealand (PaleorXiv)
- Bayesian and likelihood placement of fossils on phylogenies from quantitative morphometrics (BioRXiv)
- Reply to Comment on “Aysheaia prolata from the Utah Wheeler Formation (Drumian, Cambrian) is a frontal appendage of the radiodontan Stanleycaris” with the formal description of Stanleycaris (PaleorXiv)
Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:
Meetings:
- 11th Annual SeAVP Conference, May 23–27, 2018, North Carolina (Link)
- Trekking Across the GOBE: From the Cambrian through the Katian, IGCP 653 Annual Meeting, June 3-7, 2018, Athens, Ohio, USA (Link)
- 5th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC5), July 9–13, 2018, France (Link)
- Flugsaurier 2018 Circular, August 10–14, 2018, Los Angeles (Link)
- 78th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP), October 17–20, 2018, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Link)
- 2018 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 4–7, 2018, Indianapolis, Indiana (Link)
- North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)
Deadlines:
- The AWG Undergraduate Excellence in Paleontology Award, deadline April 15, 2018 (PaleoSociety)
- Analytical Paleobiology Short Course, July 19–August 15. Deadline to apply April 1, 2018 (Link)
News and Views:
Animals and Anatomy:
- Shell Shock! Can morphometrics distinguish fossil turtle species? (PLOS Paleo)
- Fossil Friday -crocodilian teeth (Valley of the Mastodon)
- Lesothosaurus: Beast of the Week (PBW)
- Archaeopteryx may have been too fat to nest (Taphovenatrix)
- Jinyunpelta (Equatorial Minnesota)
- The pneumatic tail of the Field Museum apatosaurine, FMNH P25112 (SVPOW)
- BIBE 45854, the giant Alamosaurus cervical series from Big Bend, Texas (SVPOW)
- A New Baby Bird (Dr. Neurosaurus)
- An early juvenile enantiornithine specimen from the Early Cretaceous of Spain (Letters from Gondwana)
- Dinosaurs, in Living Color (Laelaps)
- March Mammal Madness ft. fossil mammals! (Part 1) (Taphovenatrix)
- Falkland Islands Wolf (Dusicyon australis) (Life in the Cenozoic Era)
- Silence of the Pacas (Synapsida)
Methods and Musings:
- A Brief Guide To Writing Your First Scientific Manuscript (PLOS SciComm)
- PeerJ March Newsletter: 1500+ submissions in Feb and meet the PeerJ Section Editors (PeerJ)
- Paleontology Exhibits of California – Part 2 (Extinct Monsters)
- The ethics of copyright transfer for scientific research (Green Tea and Velociraptors)
Museums, Folks and Fieldwork:
- Interview with Paleontologist: Jason Poole (PBW)
- Episode #43: Interview with Jon Tennant about Open Science (PhD Career Stories)
- Departmental museum liaison (Time Scavengers)
- The Woman Who Shaped the Study of Fossil Brains (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Speaker Series 2018: Ya Ha Tinda and Mass Extinction in the Early Jurassic (Inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum)
- Fossil Club Meetings (Time Scavengers)
- Tracking Cretaceous Birds in South Korea: Goseong Public Library Talks (Birds in Mud)
Art, books, culture, and fun:
- Sabertooth vs Bear-dog and Composition vs. Design (Chasing Sabretooths)
- VIntage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaur Encore (LITC)
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