Fossil Friday Roundup: February 10, 2017

Featured Image: Bajaichthys elegans, photograph of the holotype MCSNV T.922 From Davesne et al (2017), first paper listed below.

Papers (All Open Access):

• Bajaichthys elegans from the Eocene of Bolca (Italy) and the overlooked morphological diversity of Zeiformes (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) (Palaeontology)
• The internal cranial anatomy of Romundina stellina Ørvig, 1975 (Vertebrata, Placodermi, Acanthothoraci) and the origin of jawed vertebrates—Anatomical atlas of a primitive gnathostome (PLOS ONE)
• Faunal response to sea-level and climate change in a short-lived seaway: Jurassic of the Western Interior, USA (Palaeontology)
• Gliding lizards use the position of the sun to enhance social display (Biology Letters)
• Turtle shell bone and osteoderm histology of Mesozoic and Cenozoic stem-trionychian Adocidae and Nanhsiungchelyidae (Cryptodira: Adocusia) from Central Asia, Mongolia, and North America (Fossil Record)
• A new genus for the eastern dwarf galagos (Primates: Galagidae) (Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)
• The internal anatomy of titanosaur osteoderms from the Upper Cretaceous of Spain is compatible with a role in oogenesis (Scientific Reports)
• The Origin of Vertebrate Gills (Current Biology)

News:

• Royal Tyrrell Museum Research Assistant Helped Write One of Most Cited Cretaceous Research Articles in Last Three Years (Link)
• Spiny, armored slug reveals ancestry of molluscs (Link)
• The Lost Continent of Appalachia (Link)
• Climate change responsible for the great diversity in horses (Link)
• Dinosaurs: juvenile, adult or senior? (Link)
• National Museums fear Brexit ‘Brain Drain’ (Link)

Community Events and Society Updates:

• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology abstract submission portal now open (Link)
• Collections study grants – Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Link)

Around the Blogosphere:

• Sauropoda Coat of Arms (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• Plateosaurus: Beast of the Week (Prehistoric Beast of the Week)
• Four Features of Historical Counterfactuals (Extinct)
• The Fossil Bulbasaur (Dr. Neurosaurus)
• Reconstructing a monster bear (Chasing Sabretooths)
• Extending the History of Crocs in California (PLOS Paleo Community)
• The Legacy of Ernst Haeckel (Letters from Gondwana)
• Vintage Dinosaur Art: All New Dinosaurs and their friends (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• Speaker Series 2017: Canadian Volcanoes, eh? Active Volcanoes on Canada’s Ring of Fire (Royal Tyrrell Museum)
• Fossils of my youth (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Enter The Evolution Underground (Life Traces of the Georgia Coast)
• How do we know what prehistoric animals ate? (SVP Blog)
• What’s that bone? New Bone ID Database (Taphovenatrix)
• Spying on the big cats: an ancestral occupation (Chasing Sabretooths)
• The Lost World of Appalachia (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• New species of gecko with massive scales and tear-away skin – Author interview with Mark Scherz (PeerJ Blog)
• Palaeoart Memes and the Unspoken Status Quo in Palaeontological Popularisation (Tetrapod Zoology)
• In the Shadow of the Greatest Hyena (Laelaps)
• Talara–Peru’s Great Ice Age Tar Trap (Laelaps)

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