Featured image: Murusraptor barrosaensis, which lived about 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. (Courtesy: Jan Sovak)
Papers (all Open Access):
- New holostean fishes (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Switzerland) (PeerJ)
- A new method for reconstructing brain morphology: applying the brain-neurocranial spatial relationship in an extant lungfish to a fossil endocast (RSOS)
- A New Megaraptoran Dinosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Megaraptoridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (PLOS ONE)
- Neural and endocranial anatomy of Triassic phytosaurian reptiles and convergence with fossil and modern crocodylians (PeerJ)
- Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)
- Multivariate and Cladistic Analyses of Isolated Teeth Reveal Sympatry of Theropod Dinosaurs in the Late Jurassic of Northern Germany (PLOS ONE)
Society Events and Updates:
- Rebecca Hunt-Foster invites SVP attendees to consider this worthwhile workshop for paleontologists considering a teaching-intensive career path (Link)
- Early registration deadline for the SVP Meeting is fast approaching (August 16), register here! (Link)
News:
- DMNS Curator helps discover real reason why turtles have shells (Link)
- Southeast Asian coelacanth species found in shattered fossil (Link)
- Humans decimating the diversity of life should worry us all (Link)
- Dino park could have local voice (Link)
- Santa Cruz teachers make big finds in Florida paleontology exchange program (Link)
- Newfoundland fossil trove to become UNESCO World Heritage Site (Link)
Around the Blogosphere:
- Why two tiny wings preserved in amber have palaeontologists in a flap. Hanneke Meijer’s take for The Guardian. (Link)
- Size Does Matter: Using the size of fossil marine mammals to estimate primary productivity in ancient oceans (Link)
- Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs continues admiring vintage dinosaur art (Link)
- Brian Switek discusses how dinosaurs literally reshaped the planet (Link)
- Why one of the world’s best fossil sites is full of severed bird feet (Link)
- Another Brick in the “Murus”: Meet the newest Megaraptoran theropod, Murusraptor (Link)
- Beaked birds champions of the last mass extinction (Link)
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Sarah Z. Gibson 