Fossil Friday Roundup: September 9, 2016

Featured image: A reconstruction of the Storr Lochs Monster, the most complete ichthyosaur from Scotland. Art by Todd Marshall.

Papers (all Open Access):

• Big-headed marine crocodyliforms and why we must be cautious when using extant species as body length proxies for long-extinct relatives (PalaeoE)
• Fossil snake preserving three trophic levels and evidence for an ontogenetic dietary shift (Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironment)
• A new rauisuchid (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of New Mexico increases the diversity and temporal range of the clade (PeerJ)
• Convergent evolution of jaws between spinosaurid dinosaurs and pike conger eels (APP)
• Sea level regulated tetrapod diversity dynamics through the Jurassic/Cretaceous interval (Nature Communications)
• First fossil of Cylindrostethinae (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Gerridae) in the Paleocene of Menat, France (PalaeoE)
• Patterns of diet and body mass of large ungulates from the Pleistocene of Western Europe, and their relation to vegetation (PalaeoE)
• Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Fushun amber reveal further biotic links between Asia and Europe during the Eocene (PalaeoE)

News:

• An exceptional palaeontological site going back 100,000 years is unearthed in Arrasate (Link)
• Life history of the 360-My-old tetrapod Acanthostega rewrites the tetrapod move onto land (Link)
• Skye’s Storr Lochs Monster fossil unveiled in Edinburgh (Link)
• Cretaceous dinosaur footprints uncovered on Western Australian beach (Link)

Events and Society Updates:

• The Palaeontological Association meeting early bird registration closes on September 19th! Register Here.
• Darren Naish announces TetZooCon 2016 (Link)
• Digital Data in Paleontological Research Workshop (Link)
• 2016 SVP Women in Science Social (Link)

Around the Blogosphere:

• Remembering  the Tasmanian Tiger for Threatened Species Day (Link)
• Regarding Liaoningosaurus (Link)
• Vintage Dinosaur Art: Book of Big Beasts  (Link)
• Back to School Thoughts (Link)
• More on an ICZN petition to preserve Diplodocus carnegii (Link)
• A Tiny Pterosaur (Link) / Un Pequeño Pterosaurio (Link)
• That Field Assistant (Link)
• The Road to Comps Part 1: 19th Century Natural History in Comparative Perspective (Link)

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