Fossil Friday Roundup: September 1, 2017

Featured Image: Paratype of †Sorbinicharax verraesi. MCSNV Na 47. From Mayrinck et al. (2017).

Papers (All Open Access):

• The functional head of the Cambrian radiodontan (stem-group Euarthropoda) Amplectobelua symbrachiata (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• New insights into Mesozoic cycad evolution: an exploration of anatomically preserved Cycadaceae seeds from the Jurassic Oxford Clay biota (PeerJ)
• The wasp larva’s last supper: 100 million years of evolutionary stasis in the larval development of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae) (Fossil Record)
• Early Jurassic diversification of pycnodontiform fishes (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii) after the end-Triassic extinction event: evidence from a new genus and species, Grimmenodon aureum (JVP)
• †Sorbinicharax verraesi: An unexpected case of a benthic fish outside Acanthomorpha in the Upper Cretaceous of the Tethyan Sea (PLOS ONE)
• A new Mississippian tetrapod from Fife, Scotland, and its environmental context (Papers in Palaeontology)
• Dinosaur origin of egg color: oviraptors laid blue-green eggs (PeerJ)
• The jaw is a second-class lever in Pedetes capensis (Rodentia: Pedetidae) (PeerJ)
• A revision of European Plesiosminthus (Rodentia, Dipodidae), and new material from the upper Oligocene of Teruel (Spain) (PalaeoE)
• High incidence of cervical ribs indicates vulnerable condition in Late Pleistocene woolly rhinoceroses (PeerJ)
• Three-Dimensional Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Fossil Canid Mandibles and Skulls (Scientific Reports)
• Ancient whales did not filter feed with their teeth (Biology Letters)
• Dental development in Homo naledi (Biology Letters)
• Correction to ‘Fossil skulls reveal that blood flow rate to the brain increased faster than brain volume during human evolution’ (RSOS)
• Quaternary vertebrate faunas from Sumba, Indonesia: implications for Wallacean biogeography and evolution (ProcB)
• New dating evidence of the early presence of hominins in Southern Europe (Scientific Reports)
• Hidden subsurface garden on own faeces — the trace fossil Tubulichnium rectum (Fischer-Ooster, 1858) from the Cretaceous-Palaeogene deep-sea sediments (PalaeoE)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:

• SVPCA 2017, September 12–15, Birmingham, England (Link)
  • SVPCA/SPPC 2017 abstracts collection on PeerJ (Link)
• Call for Nominations: Nat’l Academy of Sciences Elliot Medal, due Oct. 12 (Link)
• Principles of Vertebrate Functional Morphology, October 16–20, 2017, Barcelona, Spain (Link)
• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)
• Support The Paleontological Society With Your T-Shirt! (Link)

New and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Episode 16 – Cephalopods (Common Descent)
• South American caiman ancestor gulped its prey like a pelican (PLOS Paleo)
• ‘Sea dragon’ fossil is ‘largest on record’ (BBC)
• The Unique and Efficient 4-Flipper Locomotion of Plesiosaurs (Tetrapod Zoology)
• Paleo Profile: The Horned Lizard (Laelaps)
• An Old Dinosaur with New Information (Dr. Neurosaurus)
• Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania (Link)
• Paleo Profile: The Silk Bird (Laelaps)
• Herds of mammoths roamed far further across America than thought: Researchers find the animals travelled hundreds of miles across Texas to graze (Link)
• How horses lost their toes (Link)
• Oldest direct evidence of humans in the Americas? (PLOS Paleo)

Museums, Methods, and Musings:

• Unpaid reviewing, community, and choice (SV-POW)
• Dark skies at the end of the Cretaceous (Letters from Gondwana)
• paleorXiv is a free publishing platform for Paleontology (Green Tea and Velociraptors)
• SVP 2017 – Day 3 (Notions of a Most Peculiar Dinosaur Nerd)
• SVP 2017 – Day 4 (Notions of a Most Peculiar Dinosaur Nerd)
• Beggar’s Game and Game of Chance: Marketing Tendaguru Dinosaurs (Extinct)
• Flugsaurier 2018 Los Angeles (Archosaur Musings)
• Ten years in college, now what? (Time Scavengers)
• Evolutionary Trees and the Fossil Record: New Approached to Phylogenetic Paleobiology (Cambridge Core Blog)
• This Mesozoic Month: August 2017 (LITC)
• The Field Museum Shuffles its Dinosaurs (Extinct Monsters)

Featured Folks and Fieldwork:

• Meet a Scientist – Gabriel Santos (An Anxious Scientist)
• Ready for Liftoff (SVP Blog)
• SVP Cohen Award Interview: Niels de Winter (SVP)

Arts, Books, Culture, and Fun:

• Vintage Dinosaur Art: Big Animals of Long Ago – The Dinosaurs (LITC)
• The Deinothere’s Forest and the Noah’s Ark Trap (Chasing Sabretooths)
• 75 years of “Hadrosaurian Dinosaurs of North America” (Equatorial Minnesota)
• The Prehistoric Ghosts of Badlands National Park! (Dave’s Dinosaurs)
• Geomythology: on Cyclops and Lestrigons (Letters from Gondwana)

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