Fossil Friday Roundup: March 16, 2018

Featured Image: Tethydraco regalis FSAC-OB 199 ulna. From Longrich et al (2018), CC-BY.

Papers (All Open Access):

• Atlantic deep water circulation during the last interglacial (Scientific Reports)
• Wangshangkia, a new Devonian ostracod genus from Dushan of Guizhou, South China (Journal of Micropalaeontology)
  Ostracods (Crustacea) as shelf to basin indicators: evidence from Late Devonian Yangdi and Nandong sections in Guangxi, South China (Journal of Micropalaeontology)
• Out of Asia: mitochondrial evolutionary history of the globally introduced supralittoral isopod Ligia exotica (PeerJ)
• Chloropid flies (Diptera, Chloropidae) associated with pitcher plants in North America (PeerJ)
• Brain and eyes of Kerygmachela reveal protocerebral ancestry of the panarthropod head (Nature Communications)
• Anatomy of a Neotropical insect radiation (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• New articulated asteroids (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) and ophiuroids (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from the Late Jurassic (Volgian / Tithonian) of central Spitsbergen (European Journal of Taxonomy)
• Elasmobranch fossils from the lower Miocene Akeyo Formation, Mizunami Group at the construction site of Mizunami-Kita Junior High School in Mizunami City, Gifu, Japan (Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum)
• The fish otolith and teeth from the lower Miocene Akeyo Formation, Mizunami Group at the construction site of Mizunami-Kita Junior High School in Mizunami City, Gifu, Japan (Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum)
• Palaeodiversity and evolution in the Mesozoic world (Journal of Iberian Geology)
• The anatomy of the foveola reinvestigated (PeerJ)
• Phylogenetic surveys on the newt genus Tylototriton sensu lato (Salamandridae, Caudata) reveal cryptic diversity and novel diversification promoted by historical climatic shifts (PeerJ)
• Palaeoecological inferences for the fossil Australian snakes Yurlunggur and Wonambi (Serpentes, Madtsoiidae) (RSOS)
• Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (PLOS ONE)
• Jurassic biodiversity and terrestrial environments volume (Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments)
• Correction to ‘Multiple optimality criteria support Ornithoscelida’ (RSOS)
• Wing bone geometry reveals active flight in Archaeopteryx (Nature Communications)
• Interpreting the three-dimensional orientation of vascular canals and cross-sectional geometry of cortical bone in birds and bats (Journal of Anatomy)
• Endothiodon cf. bathystoma (Synapsida: Dicynodontia) bony labyrinth anatomy, variation and body mass estimates (PLOS ONE)
• On geographic barriers and Pleistocene glaciations: Tracing the diversification of the Russet-crowned Warbler (Myiothlypis coronata) along the Andes (PLOS ONE)
• Revision of Oligo-Miocene kangaroos, Ganawamaya and Nambaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes, Balbaridae) (PalaeoE)
• A review of the Pattonomys/Toromys clade (Rodentia, Echimyidae), with descriptions of a new Toromys species and a new genus. (American Museum Novitates)
• Two mysticete fossils from the lower Miocene Akeyo Formation, Mizunami Group at the construction site of Mizunami-Kita Junior High School in Mizunami City, Gifu, Japan (Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum)
• Seasonal temperature acclimatization in a semi-fossorial mammal and the role of burrows as thermal refuges (PeerJ)
• Ancient human mitochondrial DNA and radiocarbon analysis of archived quids from the Mule Spring Rockshelter, Nevada, USA (PLOS ONE)
  Discovery of circa 115,000-year-old bone retouchers at Lingjing, Henan, China (PLOS ONE)
• The University of Alberta Palaeontological Society’s 7th Biennial Symposium Abstract volume (VAMP)

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Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:

Meetings:

• 11th Annual SeAVP Conference, May 23–27, 2018, North Carolina (Link)
• Trekking Across the GOBE: From the Cambrian through the Katian, IGCP 653 Annual Meeting, June 3-7, 2018, Athens, Ohio, USA (Link)
• 5th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC5), July 9–13, 2018, France (Link)
• Flugsaurier 2018 Circular, August 10–14, 2018, Los Angeles (Link)
• 78th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP), October 17–20, 2018, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Link)
• 2018 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 4–7, 2018, Indianapolis, Indiana (Link)
• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)

Deadlines:

• The AWG Undergraduate Excellence in Paleontology Award, deadline April 15, 2018 (PaleoSociety)
• Analytical Paleobiology Short Course, July 19–August 15. Deadline to apply April 1, 2018 (Link)

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News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Fossil Friday – freshwater snail (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Episode 30 – Prehistoric Poop (Common Descent)
• Shringasaurus: Beast of the Week (PBW)
• The Enigma of Leguatia, 6-Foot-Tall Mauritian Super-Rail (Tetrapod Zoology)
• Dinosaurs of February (Alioramus altai)
• Paleo Profile: The Jinyun Shield (Laelaps)
• March Mammal Madness Ft. Fossil Mammals (Part 2) (Taphovenatrix)
• The Crusty Forearms of Male Bats (Synapsida)
• Marshalls Creek Mastodon (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Scientists Discover Evidence of Early Human Innovation, Pushing Back Evolutionary Timeline (Smithsonian)

Methods and Musings:

• Burning coal may have caused Earth’s worst mass extinction (Link)
• To Write or Not To Write? Pros and cons of blogging as an ECR (PLOS ECR Community)
• Are palaeontologists naming too many species? (Link)
• What is biodiversity and why does it matter to us? (The Guardian)

Museums, Folks and Fieldwork:

• Bridget Wade, Micropaleontologist (Time Scavengers)
• Paleontology Exhibits of California – Part 3 (Extinct Monsters)
• Scouring the Mississippian of Alabama (Time Scavengers)
• The mounted Mamenchisaurus at Wollaton Hall (SVPOW)

Art, books, culture, and fun:

• The Scientific Palaeoart of Dr Mark Witton (Tetrapod Zoology)
• The 16 types of graduate supervisor – by JRR Tolkien (Eco-Evo Evo-Eco)

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