Fossil Friday Roundup: May 4, 2018

Featured Image: Citipati osmolskae, IGM 100/1004 in left lateral view. Anterior is to the left. From Norell et al. (2018).

Papers (All Open Access):

• Quantifying the living fossil concept (PalaeoE)
• Getting somewhere with the Red Queen: chasing a biologically modern definition of the hypothesis (Biology Letters)
• Generalized conditions of spherical carbonate concretion formation around decaying organic matter in early diagenesis (Scientific Reports)
• Reconstruction of the ancestral metazoan genome reveals an increase in genomic novelty (Nature Communications)
• Ediacara biota flourished in oligotrophic and bacterially dominated marine environments across Baltica (Nature Communications)
• A new phylogeny-based tribal classification of subfamily Detarioideae, an early branching clade of florally diverse tropical arborescent legumes (Scientific Reports)
• Aridity drives plant biogeographical sub regions in the Caatinga, the largest tropical dry forest and woodland block in South America (PLOS ONE)
• The ‘Last Hurrah of the Reigning Darwinulocopines’? Ostracoda (Arthropoda, Crustacea) from the Lower Jurassic Moenave Formation, Arizona and Utah, USA (Journal of Paleontology)
• A phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) with analyses of character evolution and a key to the genera and subgenera (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• Facial bone fragmentation in blind cavefish arises through two unusual ossification processes (Scientific Reports)
• Osseous anomalies of the cryptobranchid Eoscapherpeton asiaticum (Amphibia: Caudata) from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan (Fossil Record)
• The first record of a trionychid turtle (Testudines: Trionychidae) from the Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast of North America (VAMP)
• A second specimen of Citipati osmolskae associated with a nest of eggs from Ukhaa Tolgod, Omnogov Aimag, Mongolia. (American Museum novitates)
• Phylogenetic signal in tooth wear dietary niche proxies (Ecology and Evolution)
• Fossil Focus: Thalattosuchia (Palaeontology[Online])
• A new bat record for the late Pleistocene of Jamaica: Pteronotus trevorjacksoni from the Red Hills Road Cave (Caribbean Journal of Earth Sciences)
• Functional and Phylogenetic Aspect in Modularity of Palearctic Mustelids (Carnivora, Mustelidae) Mandible (Vestnik Zoologii)
• New proboscidean fossils from Middle Siwaliks of Haritalyangar area, Himachal Pradesh, India (PalaeoE)
• First anatomical network analysis of fore- and hindlimb musculoskeletal modularity in bonobos, common chimpanzees, and humans (Scientific Reports)
• Sporadic sampling, not climatic forcing, drives observed early hominin diversity (PNAS)
• Assessing the significance of Palaeolithic engraved cortexes. A case study from the Mousterian site of Kiik-Koba, Crimea (PLOS ONE)
• No progress on diversity in 40 years (Nature Comment)

Pre-Prints and Post-Prints:

• Influence of different modes of morphological character correlation on phylogenetic tree inference (bioRXiv)
• Revising the species “Mustela” ardea Gervais, 1848-1852 (Mammalia, Mustelidae): Martellictis gen. nov. and the systematics of the fossil “Galictinae” of Eurasia (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:

• Bite Like a Theropod (Pseudoplocephalus)
• These Are the Dinosaurs That Didn’t Die (National Geographic)
• Episode 90: Ichthyornis (Palaeocast)
• Ichthyornis and the evolution of the avian skull (Letters From Gondwana)
• Necks lie: solitaire edition (SVPOW)
• Out of the Caves (Synapsida)
• Fossil Friday – horse dentary (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Tracking sloths and people at White Sands National Monument (Equatorial Minnesota)

Methods and Musings:

• This Mesozoic Month (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• Joint Publ†isher Statement (PLOS Official Blog)
• Power to the Preprint (PLOS Paleo)
• Consensus Schmosensus: Dead dinosaurs, big rocks, and simple stories (Extinct)
• The Hidden Gems of Data Accessibility Statements (PLOS Ecology)

Museums, Folks and Fieldwork:

• Exploded turtles of the Academy of Natural Sciences (SVPOW)
• A Museum Evolves (What’s in John’s Freezer)

Art, books, culture, and fun:

• Eberth and Evans’s Hadrosaurs, a Book Review, Part 2 (Tetrapod Zoology)
• Unicorns, dragons, monsters and giants: palaeoart before palaeontology (Mark Witton)
• Review: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte — more terrifying than Jurassic Park (Link)
• Action man! Steve White on Dinosaurs! (Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs)
• Book Review – Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (The Inquisitive Biologist)
• Coming Soon in 2018: Katrina Van Grouw’s Unnatural Selection (Tetrapod Zoology)
• Book Review — The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World (The Inquisitive Biologist)

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