Fossil Friday Roundup: June 14, 2019
Featured Image: From Hausmann et al. (2019).
Papers (All Open Access):
- Lunar cycles and rainy seasons drive growth and reproduction in nummulitid foraminifera, important producers of carbonate buildups (SciRep)
- Quantifying spatial variability in shell midden formation in the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia (PLOS ONE)
- Trilobite compound eyes with crystalline cones and rhabdoms show mandibulate affinities (SciRep)
- New genus and species of Lamprosomatinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Eocene Baltic amber (PalaeoE)
- A proposed terminology for the dentition of gomphodont cynodonts and dental morphology in Diademodontidae and Trirachodontidae (PeerJ)
- On trends and patterns in macroevolution: Williston’s law and the branchiostegal series of extant and extinct osteichthyans (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
- First partial skeleton of Delphinornis larseni Wiman, 1905, a slender-footed penguin from the Eocene of Antarctic Peninsula (PalaeoE)
- Digital dissection of the head of the rock dove (Columba livia) using contrast-enhanced computed tomography (Zoological Letters)
- History Repeats: Large Scale Synchronous Biological Turnover in Avifauna From the Plio-Pleistocene and Late Holocene of New Zealand (Frontiers In Ecology and Evolution)
- Updated synthesis of South American Mesotheriidae (Notoungulata) with emphasis on west-central Argentina (Link)
- Bone diagenesis in a Mycenaean secondary burial (Kastrouli, Greece) (Archaeological and Anthropological Science)
- Philosophy of Macroevolution (Link)
- Conserving evolutionary history does not result in greater diversity over geological time scales (ProcB)
Preprints and Postprints:
- First report of paired ventral endites in a hurdiid radiodont (PaleorXiv)
- First Report of Cretaceous Calcareous Nanofossils from the Ophiolite Associated Pelagic Sediments of Middle Andaman (Link)
Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:
Meetings:
- North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)
- Judith River Symposium (Great Plains Dinosaur Museum), Malta, Montana, June 28–30 (Link)
- Dino Fest at the Science Museum of Minnesota, July 13, 10 am–4 pm (Link)
- Cretaceous & Beyond: Paleo of Western Interior (Dickinson Museum), Dickinson, North Dakota, September 14–17 (Link)
News and Views:
Animals and Anatomy, Fossils and Fossilization:
- Why Crocodiles Are Not Just Living Fossils (NY Times)
- Dawn of the Crunch (Laelaps)
- Supersaurus, Ultrasaurus and Dystylosaurus in 2019, part 1: what we know now (SVPOW)
- Rare Dinosaur Fossils Reveal New Details of Prosaurolophus Display Features (Inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum)
- Miocene (Pt 14): Sabre-toothed Sea Otters (Synapsida)
- Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia (Link)
Featured Folks, Fieldwork, and Museums:
- Highlands Ranch Fossil Site Just One Project For Dino Diggers This Summer (Link)
- ProgPal 2019 (Raptormaniacs)
- What I Did While I Was Out (Equatorial Minnesota)
- Brazil wins legal fight over 100-million-year-old fossil bounty (Link)
Methods and Musings:
- Dinosaur fossils are available for sale on eBay. so why did it take America’s national museum so long to get a Tyrannosaurus rex? (Link)
- Reforming scholarly publishing (GTV)
- Meetings and Management (Time Scavengers)
Arts, Books, Culture, Fun:
- Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs (St Michael) – Part 2 (LITC)
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