Fossil Friday Roundup: September 15, 2017

Featured Image: Utahceratops gettyi, a ceratopsian named in honor of Mike Getty, who passed away this week. From Sampson et al (2010).

Papers (All Open Access):

• End-Cretaceous akaganéite as a mineral marker of Deccan volcanism in the sedimentary record (Scientific Reports)
• Fossil calibrations for the cockroach phylogeny (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Blattodea), comments on the use of wings for their identification, and a redescription of the oldest Blaberidae (PalaeoE)
• Bessarabian (Tortonian, Late Miocene) fish otoliths from a transitional freshwater-brackish environment of Mykhailivka, Southern Ukraine (PalaeoE)
• Fish Ontology framework for taxonomy-based fish recognition (PeerJ)
• Phylogeographic investigation and ecological niche modelling of the endemic frog species Nanorana pleskei revealed multiple refugia in the eastern Tibetan Plateau (PeerJ)
• Effects of long-term preservation on amphibian body conditions: implications for historical morphological research (PeerJ)
• On the largest Ichthyosaurus: A new specimen of Ichthyosaurus somersetensis containing an embryo (APP)
• Inferring ‘weak spots’ in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature (PeerJ)
• A new multi-faceted framework for deciphering diplodocid ontogeny (PalaeoE)
• Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from the Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland: Evidence for Late Triassic sauropods (APP)
• New dinosaur tracksite in the Late Jurassic of Kirmenjak Quarry (Istria) (Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia)
• The postcranial skeleton of Boreogomphodon (Cynodontia: Traversodontidae) from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina, USA and the comparison with other traversodontids (PeerJ)
• A reassessment of the postcanine dentition and systematics of the tritylodontid Stereognathus (Cynodontia, Tritylodontidae, Mammaliamorpha), from the Middle Jurassic of the United Kingdom (JVP)
• Molecular conservation of marsupial and eutherian placentation and lactation (eLife)
• Sigmodontine rodents (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from Quaternary cave deposits of Serra da Capivara, northeastern Brazil (Rev Bras Paleontol)
• A new Miocene baleen whale from Peru deciphers the dawn of cetotheriids (RSOS)
• The Wayward Dog: Is the Australian native dog or Dingo a distinct species? (Zootaxa)
• Prey selection and dietary flexibility of three species of mammalian predator during an irruption of non-cyclic prey (RSOS)
• A discussion on Tuchenzi fossils and paleoclimate sedimentary environment in Qianjiadian basin of Yanqing County:Suspected dinosaur bones discovered for the first time in Yanqing, Beijing (Link)
• Identity Matters: Communicating About Equity and Opportunity for Students in Minority-Serving Institutions (Annals of the Entomological Society of America)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:

• 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)
• Upcoming Opportunities for the PLOS Paleo Community! (PLOS Paleo)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• When ammonites got bored (Equatorial Minnesota)
• What—If Anything—Is a Geoemydid? (Tetrapod Zoology)
• Nightmare Mouths of The Permian (Don’t Mess With Dinosaurs)
• Fossil forensics: Two ancient lizards, two amber-encased mysteries (Earth Touch News)
• Paleo Profile: The Sieve-Toothed Plesiosaur (Laelaps)
• A Plesiosaur with a Sieve-Mouth (Dr. Neurosaurus)
• New tetrapod assemblage from the Chañares Formation (Letters from Gondwana)
• Dinosaur Gets Strange Diagnosis 78 Million Years After Its Death (Link)
• Posterior cervical vertebra of a juvenile Diplodocus (SV-POW)
• Life in the old bird yet: study of dodo bones yields new biological insights (Link)
• How a newly-discovered mastodon jaw became a mammoth mystery (Link)
• Fossil Friday – mammoth tooth (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Paleo Profile: The Strange, Defenseless Snout (Laelaps)
• Keep Sharp, Metatherians (Laelaps)

Museums, Methods, and Musings:

• Revising a poster (SV-POW)
• Fossil Fun with Pre-K Students (Time Scavengers)
• Royal Tyrrell Museum (Raptormaniacs)
• The Missing Mesozoic Groundcover: Did Biocrusts Secretly Dominate the Mesozoic? (Antediluvian Salad)
• Natural Theology Still Shapes How We Think about Fossils (Extinct)
• Episode 17 – The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) (Common Descent)
• SVP 2017 (Raptormaniacs)
• Peer Review Week 2017: Peer Review from a Volunteer Editor’s Perspective (PLOS Paleo)
• The “Biconcavoposeidon” poster is published (SV-POW)
• Advice from a recent grad school graduate (Time Scavengers)
• Valley of the Mastodons – Part 1 (Mostly Mammoths)
• SVPCA 2017 (Palaeocast)

Folks and Fieldwork:

• MSU alumni help build up a small-town dinosaur museum in eastern Montana (Link)
• Maggie Limbeck, Paleontologist (Time Scavengers)
• Annie Montague Alexander, Naturalist and Fossil Hunter (Letters from Gondwana)
• SVP Dawson Award Interview: Megan Whitney (Old Bones)
• SVP Taylor & Francis Award Interview: Ornella Bertrand (Old Bones)
• ‘I don’t care what they say about me’: Paleontologist stares down critics in her hunt for dinosaur proteins (Link)
• Field Camp in Scotland (Time Scavengers)

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