Fossil Friday Roundup: April 27, 2018

Featured Image: From Nowakowski (2018). CC-BY.

Papers (All Open Access):

• Quantifying ecological impacts of mass extinctions with network analysis of fossil communities (PNAS)
• Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoon (Nature Communications)
• Warm summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal (Nature Communications)
• Rare patterns of dorsal puncture in Pterostichus oblongopunctatus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) (PeerJ)
• Haimormus shimojiensis, a new genus and species of Pseudozeuxidae (Crustacea: Tanaidacea) from a submarine limestone cave in Northwestern Pacific (PeerJ)
• Growth patterns, sexual dimorphism, and maturation modeled in Pachypleurosauria from Middle Triassic of central Europe (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) (Fossil Record)
• Crocodiles Alter Skin Color in Response to Environmental Color Conditions (Scientific Reports)
• Morphometric assessment of pterosaur jaw disparity (RSOS)
• How do diet and body mass drive reproductive strategies in mammals? (Biological Journal of the Linnean Society)
• Puncture-and-Pull Biomechanics in the Teeth of Predatory Coelurosaurian Dinosaurs (Current Biology)
• A second specimen of Citipati osmolskae associated with a nest of eggs from Ukhaa Tolgod, Omnogov Aimag, Mongolia. (American Museum novitates)
• Frequency of appearance of transverse (Harris) lines reflects living conditions of the Pleistocene bear—Ursus ingressus—(Sudety Mts., Poland) (PLOS ONE)
• Dietary specialization is linked to reduced species durations in North American fossil canids (RSOS)
• Contrasting ecological roles of non-native ungulates in a novel ecosystem (RSOS)
• Shape variation and modularity of skull and teeth in domesticated horses and wild equids (Frontiers in Zoology)
• Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America (Science Advances)
• Estimating genetic kin relationships in prehistoric populations (PLOS ONE)
• Quantifying the living fossil concept (PalaeoE)
• Public perceptions about climate change mitigation in British Columbia’s forest sector (PLOS ONE)
• phylopath: Easy phylogenetic path analysis in R (PeerJ)

Pre-Prints and Post-Prints:

• The systematic position of the enigmatic thyreophoran dinosaur Paranthodon africanus, and the use of basal exemplifiers in phylogenetic analysis (PaleorXiv)
• A new phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) (PaleorXiv)

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)
• European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists Annual Meeting, Caprica, June 26–July 1, 2018 (Link)
• 5th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC5), July 9–13, 2018, France (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 PLOS ONE Early Career Researcher Travel Awards in the Physical Sciences, Multiple Deadlines (Link)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Foerstediscus splendens, a Minnesotan in Washington (Equatorial Minnesota)
• ew species among rare treasure trove of fossils found in California (Link)
• Sharing Your Home with Salamanders (Prehistoric Beast of the Week)
• Beelzebufo: Beast of the Week (PBW)
• Paleo Profile: Martin’s Sea Turtle (Laelaps)
• Non-tyrannosaurs biting like tyrannosaurs (Archosaur Musings)
• Dinosaurs Didn’t Die from Cretaceous Cramps (Laelaps)
• The Pig Family: Threatened Pigs of the Philippines (Synapsida)
• Fossil Friday – horse scapula (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Meet Mrs. Ples: 4 Facts about The Australopithecine (Fossil History)
• Wherever People Went, Big Mammals Died: Paleontological Society Members in the News (Paleo Society)
• Floresiensis Family: Legacy & Discovery at Liang Bua (Fossil History)

Methods and Musings:

• Inferential statistics, p-values, and the quest to evaluate our hypotheses (PeerJ Blog)
• Episode 33 – Ontogeny (Common Descent)
• Why the term ‘Article Processing Charge’ (APC) is misleading (Green Tea and Velociraptors)
• What does climate change mean for New York City? (Time Scavengers)
• A brief introduction to the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Letters from Gondwana)

Museums, Folks and Fieldwork:

• 2018 AJBoucot Research Grant awardees (Paleo Society)
• 2018 Paleo Society Awards (Paleo Society)
• One Year to Deep Time (Extinct Monsters)
• Sarah Z. Gibson, Paleoichthyologist and Science Communicator (Time Scavengers)
• Speaker Series 2018: Looking for Fossils in Underground Caves (Royal Tyrrell Museum)

Art, books, culture, and fun:

• Book review – The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums (The Inquisitive Biologist)
• What it’s like to watch a Hugo-winning artist draw your dinosaur (SVPOW)
• Paleoart: Painting the Land Before Time (The Brain Scoop)
• Eberth and Evans’s Hadrosaurs, a Book Review, Part 1 (Tetrapod Zoology)

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