Fossil Friday Roundup: August 4, 2017

Featured Image: Plate 40, drawn by Mary Morland, from W. Buckland (1824b) showing the lectotype right dentary of Megalosaurus. From Howlett et al. (2017).

Papers (All Open Access):

• First discovery of the charophycean green alga Lychnothamnus barbatus (Charophyceae) extant in the New World (American Journal of Botany)
• Evolutionary response to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau uplift: phylogeny and biogeography of Ammopiptanthus and tribe Thermopsideae (Fabaceae) (PeerJ)
• The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification (Nature Communications)
• Pleistocene to Holocene benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the Peruvian continental margin (PalaeoE)
• Hostplant change and paleoclimatic events explain diversification shifts in skipper butterflies (Family: Hesperiidae) (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• The taxonomic status of the genus Hubertoceras Spath: A new light on sexual dimorphism from the Callovian ammonites of Kutch, India (PalaeoE)
• Historical Quarries, Decay and Petrophysical Properties of Carbonate Stones Used in the Historical Center of Madrid (Spain) (AIMS Geosciences)
• The first data on the innervation of the lophophore in the rhynchonelliform brachiopod Hemithiris psittacea: what is the ground pattern of the lophophore in lophophorates? (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• A unique Cretaceous–Paleogene lineage of piranha-jawed pycnodont fishes (Scientific Reports)
• Plio-Pleistocene phylogeography of the Southeast Asian Blue Panchax killifish, Aplocheilus panchax (PLOS ONE)
• Two pelobatid frogs from the late Miocene of Caucasus (Russia) (PalaeoE)
• An Exceptionally Preserved Three-Dimensional Armored Dinosaur Reveals Insights into Coloration and Cretaceous Predator-Prey Dynamics (Current Biology)
• Using step width to compare locomotor biomechanics between extinct, non-avian theropod dinosaurs and modern obligate bipeds (J Royal Society Interface)
• New light on the history of Megalosaurus, the great lizard of Stonesfield (Archives of Natural History)
• Catalogue of the fossil bird holdings of the Bavarian State Collection of Palaeontology and Geology in Munich (Bayerische Staatssammlung)
• The evolution of dual meat and milk cattle husbandry in Linearbandkeramik societies (ProcB)
• Small carnivores from a Late Neolithic burial chamber at Çatalhöyük, Turkey: pelts, rituals, and rodents (Archaeological and Anthropological Science)

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)
• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)
• Paleontology Field Internship, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, application deadline August 14 (Link)
• Call for Nominations: Nat’l Academy of Sciences Elliot Medal (Link)

New and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Episode 79: Late Devonian Vertebrates (Palaeocast)
• Underwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month July 2017 (UCL Blogs)
• J.Lo and Other Araripemydid Pleurodires (Tetrapod Zoology)
• Playing Doctor with Titanosaurs (Palaeocast)
• New Oviraptorid Shows Cassowary Convergence (Palaeocast)
• Introducing Corythoraptor jacobsi (Letters from Gondwana)
• Specimen of the Week 302: Gideon Mantell’s Iguanodon bones (UCL Blogs)
• Miocene (Pt 2): Before There Were Mice (Synapsida)
• Fossil Friday – mastodon tusks (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Hot to Trot (Laelaps)
• Paleo Profile: The Elephant Bird Mimic (Laelaps)
• A Fossil Bird in the Hand… (Laelaps)

Museums, Methods, and Musings:

• Exploring the Valley of the Mastodon (PLOS Paleo)
• Valley of the Mastodons is coming at the Western Science Center in Hemet, California (SV-POW)
• This Mesozoic Month: July 2017 (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• Counterfactual History and the Minimal Rewrite Rule (Extinct)
• Backyard Sediment Sieving (Time Scavengers)
• The limitations of the layer cake (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Lord of the Flies: Difficult Truths, Questions, and Burnout Within the Online Paleocommunity (Antediluvian Salad)

Featured Folks and Fieldwork:

• Ellen Currano, Paleobotanist & Paleoecologist (Time Scavengers)
• Episode 14 – The Gray Fossil Site (Common Descent)
• Palaeoartist interview: Johan Egerkrans (Mark Witton)
• Doing Paleontology at the End of the Rope (Old Bones – SVP Blog)
• Dr. Pojeta’s Obituary (Paleo Society)

Arts, Books, Culture, and Fun:

• Palaeocast Art Competition 2017 (Palaeocast)
• The Lab Bench in Stereo: Science and Science Podcasts (PLOS ECR Community)
• R.B. Shead: Art Director (Paleo Porch)

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