Fossil Friday Roundup: November 25, 2016

Papers (All Open Access):

• Systematics of the genus Palaeictops Matthew, 1899 (Mammalia, Leptictidae), with the description of two new species from the Middle Eocene of Utah and Wyoming. (American Museum Novitates)
• Draft genome of the living fossil Ginkgo biloba (GigaScience)
• New Plants from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Group, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province, China (PLOS ONE)
• The Late Devonian placoderm Aspidichthys Newberry, 1873 from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland (Fossil Record)
• Novel structure in sciaenid fish skulls indicates continuous production of the cephalic neuromast cupula (Scientific Reports)
• Latitudinal diversity gradients in Mesozoic non-marine turtles (RSOS)
• A revision of tetrapod footprints from the late Carboniferous of the West Midlands, UK (PeerJ)
• New data towards the development of a comprehensive taphonomic framework for the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry (PeerJ Preprints)
• Seasonal Cyclicity in Trace Elements and Stable Isotopes of Modern Horse Enamel (PLOS ONE)
• Inferring diet from dental morphology in terrestrial mammals (Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
• Patterns in Palaeontology: From giants to dwarfs – Estimating the body mass of extinct species (Palaeontology Online)

News:

• County covers dino museum deficit (Link)
• Paleontologist discovers mosasaur fossil in South Dakota (Link)
• Find the Whale and the Bathroom With the Natural History Museum App (Link)
• Unearthing a Giant Marine Reptile (Link)
• A Surprising New Theory of How Dinosaurs Got So Huge (Link)

Society Events, Meetings, Announcements, and Updates:

• The 51st Annual Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting – February 17–19, 2017

Around the Blogosphere:

• Yes, sauropod neck vertebrae got longer as the animals grew up (SV-POW!)
• Artificial species selection (Extinct)
• Photogrammetry, a Don’t Do This guide to 3D modelling (Mary Anning’s Revenge)
• Researching Fossil Ungulate Communities (Mostly Mammoths, Mummies and Museums)
• Meanwhile, over at the Science Museum (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Taking a 21st Century Look at Dimetrodon (Skeletal Drawing)
• Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs of the Southwest – Part 2 (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• 50 Shades of Gray (whale, that is) (Mace Brown Museum of Natural History Blog)
• Dental Detectives Identify New Species from a Lone Tooth Fossil (GrrlScientist)
• An Open Letter from and to Female Scientists (Scientific American)
• SVP in SLC (Pseudocephalus)
• Tet Zoo Bookshelf November 2016: of Flying Dinosaurs, Extraordinary Birds, and Camera Traps (Tetrapod Zoology)
• A Toast to Darwin’s Origin & Lucy’s Discovery (Paige Fossil History)
• She Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore (Dr. Neurosaurus)
• A Brief Introduction to the Early Dinosaurs from Argentina (Letters from Gondwana)
• Meet the frail, small-brained people who first trekked out of Africa (ScienceMag)
• Paleo Profile: the Mud Dragon (Laelaps)
• Scavenger vs Scavenger (Laelaps)
• Ice Age Enemies (Laelaps)

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Featured image: Lower jaw of Palaeictops. From Velazco and Novacek (2016).