Featured Image: Lilingostrobus chaloneri gen. et sp. nov. Detail of pseudowhorls showing more than 5 leaves per pseudowhorl. Deeply sunken grooves indicating leaf midveins. From Gerrienne et al. (2018), CC-BY.
Papers (All Open Access):
- Improving preservation state assessment of carbonate microfossils in paleontological research using label-free stimulated Raman imaging (PLOS ONE)
- Lilingostrobus chaloneri gen. et sp. nov., a Late Devonian woody lycopsid from Hunan, China (PLOS ONE)
- The first Permian centipedes from Russia (APP)
- The systematic position of the stonefly †culonga Sinitshenkova, 2011 (Plecoptera: Leuctrida) reassessed using Reflectance Transforming Imaging and cladistic analysis (Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny)
- Progress in the discovery of amphipod crustaceans (PeerJ)
- The Himalayan connection of the Middle Triassic brachiopod fauna from Socotra (Yemen) (Bulletin of Geosciences)
- First arboreal ’pelycosaurs’ (Synapsida: Varanopidae) from the early Permian Chemnitz Fossil Lagerstätte, SE Germany, with a review of varanopid phylogeny (PalZ)
- Diets of giants: the nutritional value of sauropod diet during the Mesozoic (Palaeontology)
- The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation in North-Central New Mexico–Linking Colorado Plateau Stratigraphy to the Stratigraphy of the High Plains (Geology of the Intermountain West)
- The micromammals (Eulipotyphla, Chiroptera, Rodentia and Lagomorpha) from the Late Pleistocene site of the El Sidrón cave (Asturias) (Estudios Geológicos)
- Digging the compromise: investigating the link between limb bone histology and fossoriality in the aardvark (Orycteropus afer) (PeerJ)
- Early bison remains from Mygdonia Basin (Northern Greece) (Geodiversitas)
PrePrints and PostPrints:
- Recent dating of extinct Atlantic gray whale fossils, (Eschrichtius robustus), Georgia Bight and Florida, western Atlantic Ocean (PeerJ)
- Burmusculidae, a new and basal family of pompiloid wasps from the Cretaceous of Eurasia (Hymenoptera: Pompiloidea) (PaleorXiv)
- New dyrosaurid remains (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Paleocene of the Paraiba Basin, NE Brazil (PaleorXiv)
Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:
Meetings:
- 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)
News and Views:
Animals and Anatomy:
- Fun with nautiloids: an essay in futility? (Equatorial Minnesota)
- Fossil Friday – Coelacanth fossil (Valley of the Mastodon)
- The backbone begins: a spine-tingling story (Nature)
- Mosasaurs preying upon echinoids (Time Scavengers)
- The Most Massive of Dinos Evolved Earlier Than Previously Thought (Smithsonian)
- Early Primates Groomed with Claws (Laelaps)
- Miocene (Pt 8): Giant Honey Badgers and European Pandas (Synapsida)
- Mastodon: Beast of the Week (PBW)
Methods and Musings:
- A journey into geology (Time Scavengers)
- Married Scientists and the Name Change Dilemma (PLOS ECR)
- Year Six of Johns Freezer (What’s in John’s Freezer?)
Museums, Folks and Fieldwork:
- New extinct whale a close relative of the living northern right whale – Author interview with Michelangelo Bisconti (PeerJ Blog)
- Rebuilding Our Reef: Palaeozoic Era Exhibit Reopens (Royal Tyrrell Museum)
Art, Books, Culture, Fun:
- The 2018 World Cup logo is based on the dorsal view of the Xenoposeidon holotype NHMUK PV R2095 (SVPOW)
- Fredosaurus Rex – Won’t you eat, my neighbor? (Dave’s Dinosaurs)
- Summer 2018 at Tet Zoo Towers (TetZoo)
- Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs! Strange and Wonderful (LITC)
- Five books about dinosaurs that need to be published urgently in Russia (Alioramus altai)
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