Fossil Friday Roundup: October 14, 2016

Featured image: The newly reclassified beardog Angelarctocyon australis (Field Museum specimen no PM 423) had a much smaller jawbone (left) than that of the larger Amphicyon riggsi (right, Field Museum specimen no. P 12029), which lived around 22 million years later.
Credit: copyright Susumu Tomiya, The Field Museum

Papers (all Open Access):

• Whence the beardogs? Reappraisal of the Middle to Late Eocene ‘Miacis’ from Texas, USA, and the origin of Amphicyonidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) (RSOS)
• Palate anatomy and morphofunctional aspects of interpterygoid vacuities in temnospondyl cranial evolution (SciNat)
• Comparative Phylogeography of Ethiopian anurans: impact of the Great Rift Valley and Pleistocene climate change (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• Ecomorphological analysis of the astragalo-calcaneal complex in rodents and inferences of locomotor behaviours in extinct rodent species (PeerJ)
• A night heron (Ciconiiformes, Ardeidae) and a stork (Ciconiidae) from the Pliocene of Myanmar (Burma) (PalaeoE)
• Early Miocene amber inclusions from Mexico reveal antiquity of mangrove-associated copepods (Sci Reports)
• A Complete Fossil-Calibrated Phylogeny of Seed Plant Families as a Tool for Comparative Analyses: Testing the ‘Time for Speciation’ Hypothesis (PLOS ONE)
• Reconstructing the past: methods and techniques for the digital restoration of fossils (RSOS)
• The impact of gape on the performance of the skull in chisel-tooth digging and scratch digging mole-rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) (RSOS)
• Histological variability in the limb bones of the Asiatic wild ass and its significance for life history inferences (PeerJ)
• Oligocene ruminants from the Kızılırmak Formation, Çankırı-Çorum Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey (PalaeoE)

News:

• Meet your hominid ancestors in Georgia (Link)
• Palaeontology is full of dinosaurs – and not in a good way for women’s careers (Link)
• Could dinosaurs roar? Ancient voice box offers clues (Link)
• Did Plant-Eating Dinosaurs Really Only Eat Plants? (Link)
• Digging For Dinosaurs In Retirement (Link)
• Amateur paleontologist spends two years gluing giant plesiosaur fossil back together after smashing it (Link)

Events and Society Updates:

• 2016 SVP Women in Science Social (Link)
• OpenCon 2016 (Link)
• Dinosaur Days, 29th & 30th October 2016 (Link)

Around the Blogosphere:

• Paleo Profile: The Paradoxical Mega Shark (Laelaps)
• This Ancient Invertebrate Had a Nightmare Mouth (Laleaps)
• Give Natural History Museums back to the Grown-Ups (Aeon)
• Specimen of the Week 260: the handy man (UCL Museum and Collections Blog)
• #Thesissaysno – Entering my final year of PhD (Musings of a Clumsy Paleontologist)
• From the Field: A Dinosaur Excavation in Montana (Digging the Fossil Record)
• Women in science study earth and sky (Eureka Lab Science News for Students)
• Exposed teeth in dinosaurs, sabre-tooths and everything else: thoughts for artists (Mark Witton)
• Of Sea-Urchins and Computer Models (Extinct)
• The role of museums (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Is it time to rethink the private/public distinctions for museums? (SV-POW)
• Vintage Dinosaur Art: Inside Dinosaurs (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• A Whale of a Tale (Dr. Neurosaurus) / Una Ballena de un Cuento (Dr. Neurosaurus)
• An avian vocal organ from the Mesozoic (Letters from Gondwana)
• The History and Future of the Once-Revolutionary Taxidermy Diorama (Link)
• The Road to Comps Part 6: Different Approaches to the History of Natural History in the United States (PaleoPorch)
• The importance of 3D for tracks -or- how big is your footprint really! (Peter Falkingham blog)
• The Platteville Formation revisited (Equatorial Minnesota)

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