Featured image: Composite Photograph of the original fossil specimen of “Lucy” From Ruff et al. 2016
Papers (All Open Access):
- Large Scale Anthropogenic Reduction of Forest Cover in Last Glacial Maximum Europe (PLOS ONE)
- Pteropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Thecosomata) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (United States Atlantic Coastal Plain) (PalaeoE)
- Non-destructive analysis of in situ ammonoid jaws by synchrotron radiation X-ray micro-computed tomography (PalaeoE)
- The fossil fish of Salento: a history of their discovery and their study (Thalassia Salentina)
- Revision of Ionoscopus petrarojae (Ionoscopiformes, Osteichthyes) from the Albian of Pietraroja (Campania, southern Italy) (Thalassia Salentina)
- Characteristic tetrapod musculoskeletal limb phenotype emerged more than 400 MYA in basal lobe-finned fishes (Scientific Reports)
- Ontogenetic Change in the Temporal Region of the Early Permian Parareptile Delorhynchus cifellii and the Implications for Closure of the Temporal Fenestra in Amniotes (PLOS ONE)
- The late Miocene caimanine fauna (Crocodylia: Alligatoroidea) of the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela (PalaeoE)
- Morphological evolution of the mammalian jaw adductor complex (Biological Reviews)
- A new skull of the fossil porpoise Numataphocoena yamashitai (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) from the upper part of the Horokaoshirarika Formation (lower Pliocene), Numata Town, Hokkaido, Japan, and its phylogenetic position (PalaeoE)
- Suction feeding preceded ltering in baleen whale evolution (Memoirs of Museum Victoria)
- Limb Bone Structural Proportions and Locomotor Behavior in A.L. 288-1 (“Lucy”) (PLOS ONE)
- Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences (Zootaxa)
News:
- Life before oxygen (Link)
- ‘It’s a pretty rare dinosaur’: Alberta paleontologist hopes to find Troodon (Link)
- Scientists find new conclusions for how sauropod claws were used (Link)
- Florida Museum in need of volunteers at Levy dig site (Link)
- Found: Ancient Elephant Fossils Hidden Beneath L.A.’s New Subway (Link)
- Death Valley’s ‘secret’ fossil canyon could finally be opened to the public after being hidden for almost a century (Link)
- Could Dinosaurs Fly? (Link)
Society Events, Meetings, Announcements, and Updates:
Around the Blogosphere:
- On the track of Smilodon, at last! (Chasing Sabretooths)
- Naish and Barrett’s Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (Tetrapod Zoology)
- Evolution at the Zoo (Pseudoplocephalus)
- Inside the Brains of the Bonecrushers (Laelaps)
- The breakpoint is broken and other tales from the comment on Lyons et al. (Musings on Quantitative Paleoecology)
- St Nick’s list for the geoscientist (Agile Geoscience)
- Human Evolution: The Paleolithic in the Indian Subcontinent (Rapid Uplift)
- The 2016 Dinosaur Gift Guide (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
- A New Fossil Whale (Dr. Neurosaurus)
- The absurdity of natural history – or, why humans are ‘fish (The Conversation)
- Underwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month November 2016 (UCL Blogs)
- Part of the T. rex lower jaw emerges (Burke Museum)
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