Fossil Friday Roundup: July 15th, 2016

Featured Image: A pair of Gualicho dinosaurs pursuing prey. Image courtesy Jorge Gonzalez and Pablo Lara/PA

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Papers (all Open Access):

• A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia (PalaeoE)
• New and little known crane-fly species of the genera Helius, Elephantomyia and Toxorhina (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Dominican and Mexican amber (PalaeoE)
• Redescription of the argyrolagid Microtragulus bolivianos (Metatheria, Polydolopimorphia, Bonapartheriiformes) based on new remains from Northwestern Argentina (PalaeoE)
• The integration of quantitative genetics, paleontology, and neontology reveals genetic underpinnings of primate dental evolution (PNAS)
• Combining geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis with evolutionary modeling: towards a synthesis (JVP)
• Dynamics of dental evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs (Scientific Reports)
• An Unusual New Theropod with a Didactyl Manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina (PLOS ONE)
• The Origin of Large-Bodied Shrimp that Dominate Modern Global Aquaculture (PLOS ONE)
• The Evolution of Diapsid Reproductive Strategy with Inferences about Extinct Taxa (PLOS ONE)
• Diverse Aquatic Adaptations in Nothosaurus spp. (Sauropterygia)—Inferences from Humeral Histology and Microanatomy (PLOS ONE)
• Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 1: Primates and Rodentia (PalaeoE)
• New information on the braincase and inner ear of Euparkeria capensis Broom: implications for diapsid and archosaur evolution (Royal Society Open Science)

 News:

• Why study palaeontology? Two scientists explain their ‘sexy’ medium (Link)
• Dinosaurs might have cooed, not roared! (Link)
• 99-Million-Year-Old Spider Mummy Sported Horned Fangs (Link)
• Terrifed insect escapes a permanent tomb – 50 million years ago (Link)
• Charleston Museum plans include new paleontology lab (Link)
• So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors (Link)

Around the Blogosphere:

• The Stegosaurus plate controversy (Link)
• The final nail in the coffin for Patagonian megafaunal extinctions (Link)
• Valley of the Mastodon is touring museums examining “Mastodons of Unusual Size” Follow along here: (Link)
• A Tale of Two Extinctions (Link)
• Introducing Gualicho (Link)
• Theropoda compares the new Gualicho to Aoniraptor (In Italian but a translate button is available). (Link), and another take from The Theropod Database (Link)
• Getting in the Head of Euparkeria: An Interview with Gabriela Sobral (Link)
• Summing up the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (Link)
• Neanderthal DNA: A Historical Fossil Resurfaces (Link)
• From bonebeds to paleoecology (Link)
• The Strange case of Transylvanian Hadrosaurs (in English) y El Extraño Caso de los Hadrosaurios de Transilvania (en Español)
• Help save Mongolia’s dinosaurs (Link)

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