Fossil Friday Roundup: July 21, 2017

Featured Image: Illustration of Aepyornithomimus tugrikinensis drawn by Mr. Masato Hattori. From Tsogtbaatar et al. (2017). CC-BY.

Papers (All Open Access):

• Early evolution of radial glial cells in Bilateria (ProcB)
• Ecological interactions in Cloudina from the Ediacaran of Brazil: implications for the rise of animal biomineralization (Scientific Reports)
• Classical and new bioerosion trace fossils in Cretaceous belemnite guards characterised via micro-CT (Fossil Record)
• Questioning hagfish affinities of the enigmatic Devonian vertebrate Palaeospondylus (RSOS)
• Body and skull morphometric variations between two shovel-headed species of Amphisbaenia (Reptilia: Squamata) with morphofunctional inferences on burrowing (PeerJ)
• The discovery of Thalattosauria (Reptilia:Diapsida) from the Late Triassic strata of Luxi County,Yunnan Province (Geological Bulletin of China)
• On a dinosaur axis from one of the oldest dinosaur-bearing sites worldwide (APP)
• The discovery of dinosaur footprints in Jurassic strata from Meigu,Sichuan Province (Geological Bulletin of China)
• Megalosauripus transjuranicus ichnosp. nov. A new Late Jurassic theropod ichnotaxon from NW Switzerland and implications for tridactyl dinosaur ichnology and ichnotaxomy (PLOS ONE)
• First Ornithomimid (Theropoda, Ornithomimosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Tögrögiin Shiree, Mongolia (Scientific Reports)
• Investigating the running abilities of Tyrannosaurus rex using stress-constrained multibody dynamic analysis (PeerJ)
• Marsupial brood care in Cretaceous tanaidaceans (Scientific Reports)
• Oxygen isotopes suggest elevated thermometabolism within multiple Permo-Triassic therapsid clades (eLife)
• Ancient European dog genomes reveal continuity since the Early Neolithic (Nature Communications)
• An exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of Thomashuxleya externa (Mammalia, Notoungulata), from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina (PalaeoE)
• Range contractions of the world’s large carnivores (RSOS)
• Highly variable recurrence of tsunamis in the 7,400 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (Nature Communications)
• Strong geologic methane emissions from discontinuous terrestrial permafrost in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada (Scientific Reports)

Preprints:

• Are extinction opinions extinct? (PeerJ)
• A Tyrannosauroid Metatarsus from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey increases the diversity of non-Tyrannosaurid Tyrannosauroids on Appalachia (PeerJ)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:

• Diversity in Paleontology Workshop GoFundMe (Link)
• SVP Paleontology Education Workshop (Link)
• SVP Women in Paleontology Luncheon (Link)
• SVP 2017, August 23–26,  Calgary, Alberta (Link)
• SVPCA 2017, September 12–15, Birmingham, England (Link)
• Principles of Vertebrate Functional Morphology, October 16–20, 2017, Barcelona, Spain (Link)
• The Paleontological Society Student Ambassador Program (PS‐SAP), Deadline Sept. 1 (Link)
• 2017 Election Ballot is Open until August 15 (Paleo Society)
• Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum presents Clubs, Horns and Shields: Armored Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals July 1–Oct 28 (Link)
• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)
• Letter from Paleontological Society Executives about National Monuments (Paleo Society)

New and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Guest post: Why Precambrian life suddenly got big (PLOS Paleo)
• Follow-up: Pipestone National Monument, Scenella, Cylindrocoelia (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Plant fossil found at Park University is 306 million years old and a new species (Link)
• The Supracranial Sinus of the Horned Dinosaur Skull (Tetrapod Zoology)
• On the Trail of a Dinosaur Sail (Laelaps)
• Introducing Daspletosaurus horneri: short video summary (Tyrannosauroidea Central)
• Need for Speed: Cretaceous Drift (Palaeocast)
• Scientists Name New Species of Dinosaur After Canadian Icon (ROM)
• Little Morning Bird (Dr. Neurosaurus)
• Checking out Cave Bones (with B. Khameiss) (Updates from the VMNH Paleo Lab)
• Fossil Friday – mastodon partial skull (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Pinnipeds: Decline of the Monk Seals (Synapsida)
• Paleo Profile: The Crown Tooth (Laelaps)
• Episode 19: Masrasector—Egypt’s Ancient Slicer! (PastTime)

Museums, Methods, and Musings:

• The Paleo Intern Returns! (Guest blog by Madison) (Updates from the VMNH Paleo Lab)
• How well do stable isotopes really work? (Time Scavengers)
• Early Fossil Sites – 150 things about Canadian palaeo, part 15 (Musings of a Clumsy Paleontologist)
• Episode 13 – The Fossil Preparation Lab (Common Descent)
• From Mud to Microfossils: Processing Samples (Time Scavengers)
• How should museum’s organize their fossils? (Extinct)
• How a T. rex Travels from Gallery to Storage (Inside the Royal Tyrrell Museum)
• What actions can we take to push for publishing reform and incentivise open publishing practices? (PeerJ Blog)
• Grand Staircase-Escalante was set up to fail (High Country News)
• Can’t Have Just One (Old Bones – SVP Blog)

Featured Folks and Fieldwork:

• Helen Habicht, Molecular Paleoclimatologist (Time Scavengers)
• A 9-Year-Old Tripped, Fell and Discovered a Million-Year-Old Fossil (NY Times)
• Geological Society of America honors Sterling Nesbitt with Young Scientist Award (Link)

Arts, Books, Culture, and Fun:

• Take a “Dinosaur Expedition” at the Lake Compounce Amusement Park! (Dave’s Dinosaurs)
• That Time I Won a Beer Art Contest Because of Dinosaurs (PBW)
• From Sketch to painting: “Ultra-sketches” (Chasing Sabretooths)
• Vintage Dinosaur Art: Tyrannosaurus Sex: A Love Tail (Omni magazine, Feb 1988) (LITC)
• Paleoart: the strange history of dinosaurs in art – in pictures (The Guardian)

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