Fossil Friday Roundup: August 3, 2018

Featured Image: Type specimen of Altirhinus in lateral view. Photograph credit: Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar. From Gates et al. (2018). CC-BY.

Papers (All Open Access):

• Carnian (Late Triassic) ostracods from the Sorgun Ophiolitic Mélange (Southern Turkey): Taxonomy, palaeoenvironment, and evidence of predation (PalaeoE)
• Transient marine euxinia at the end of the terminal Cryogenian glaciation (Nature Comm)
• It’s a protist-eat-protist world: recalcitrance, predation, and evolution in the Tonian–Cryogenian ocean (Emerging Topics in Life Sciences)
• Mineralogy of Non-Silicified Fossil Wood (Geosciences)
• Non-Mineralized Fossil Wood (Geosciences)
• ‘Rolling’ stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (PeerJ)
• First green lacewings from the late Eocene Baltic amber (APP)
• A candidate stem-group rossellid (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from the latest Ordovician Anji Biota, China (Bulletin of Geosciences)
• A putative fossil sejid mite (Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata) in Baltic amber re-identified as an anystine (Acariformes: Prostigmata) (Acarologica)
• The youngest ophiocistioid: a first Palaeozoic‐type echinoderm group representative from the Mesozoic (Palaeontology)
• New articulated asteroids (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) and ophiuroids (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) from the Late Jurassic (Volgian / Tithonian) of central Spitsbergen (European Journal of Taxonomy)
• Static Dental Disparity and Morphological Turnover in Sharks across the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction (Current Biology)
• Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Haqelpycnodus picteti gen. and sp. nov., a new pycnodont fish genus (Pycnodontidae) from the marine Late Cretaceous tropical sea of Lebanon (Geo-Eco-Trop)
• The Mesozoic fish genus Pholidophorus (Teleostei, Pholidophoriformes), with an osteological study of the type-species Pholidophorus latiusculus. Comments on some problems concerning the “pholidophoriform” fishes (Geo-Eco-Trop)
• Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Furloichthys bonarellii gen. and sp. nov. (Teleostei, Ichthyodectidae), a tropical fish from the Upper Cretaceous of central Italy (Geo-Eco-Trop)
• An Eocene paraclupeid fish (Teleostei, Ellimmichthyiformes) from Bolca, Italy: the youngest marine record of double‐armoured herrings (Papers in Palaeontology)
• Ornamentation of dermal bones of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis and its ecological implications (PeerJ)
• The changing views on the evolutionary relationships of extant Salamandridae (Amphibia: Urodela) (PLOS ONE)
• A new relict stem salamander from the Early Cretaceous of Yakutia, Siberian Russia (APP)
• Hyperphalangy in a new sinemydid turtle from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota (PeerJ)
• Reassessment of the enigmatic crocodyliform “Goniopholis” paulistanus Roxo, 1936: Historical approach, systematic, and description by new materials (PLOS ONE)
• A method for deducing neck mobility in plesiosaurs, using the exceptionally preserved Nichollssaura borealis (RSOS)
• Response: A Reassessment of the Taxonomic Position of Mesosaurs, and a Surprising Phylogeny of Early Amniotes (Frontiers in Earth Science)
• Was Mesosaurus a Fully Aquatic Reptile? (Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
• A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs (Nature Communications)
• A re-evaluation of the basicranial soft tissues and pneumaticity of the therizinosaurian Nothronychus mckinleyi (Theropoda; Maniraptora) (PLOS ONE)
• A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia (PeerJ)
• A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia (PLOS ONE)
• A long-forgotten ‘dinosaur’ bone from a museum cabinet, uncovered to be a Japan’s iconic extinct mammal, Paleoparadoxia (Desmostylia, Mammalia) (RSOS)
• Preliminary Analysis of European Small Mammal Faunas of the Eemian Interglacial: Species Composition and Species Diversity at a Regional Scale (Quaternary)
• Convergent evolution in the Euarchontoglires (Biology Letters)
• A new species of Miocene wombat (Marsupialia, Vombatiformes) from Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia, and implications for the evolutionary history of the Vombatidae (PalaeoE)
• Mammoths, Deer, and a Dog: Fossil and (Sub) Recent Allochthonous Remains from the Northeastern Croatia (Podravina Region), with the First Radiocarbon Dating of the Croatian Woolly Mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) (Quaternary)
• Cranial and mandibular morphology of Middle Pleistocene cave bears (Ursus deningeri): implications for diet and evolution (Historical Biology)
• Late Quaternary horses in Eurasia in the face of climate and vegetation change (Science Advances)
• Strong Fuzzy EHLFS: A General Conceptual Framework to Address Past Records of Environmental, Ecological and Cultural Change (Quaternary)
• Forcing of late Pleistocene ice volume by spatially variable summer energy (Scientific Reports)
• Rapid Quaternary subsidence in the northwestern German North Sea (Scientific Reports)
• An experimental study of turtle shell rattle production and the implications for archaeofaunal assemblages (PLOS ONE)
• Middle Stone Age human teeth from Magubike rockshelter, Iringa Region, Tanzania (PLOS ONE)
• Prehistoric migrations through the Mediterranean basin shaped Corsican Y-chromosome diversity (PLOS ONE)
• Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia (PLOS ONE)

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:

• New research solves a 160 year old mystery about the origin of the vertebrate skeleton (Link)
• Specimen of the Week 353: The exploded crocodile skull (UCL)
• Walking with the Alligators (Life Traces of the Georgia Coast)
• The Jurassic’s Big 5 (Laelaps)
• Stocking the Mesozoic Salad Bar (Laelaps)
• Lingwulong shenqi (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Lingwulong shenqi, the “Amazing Dragon”, and the dispersal of Sauropods (Letters from Gondwana)
• Fossil Friday – a whale for WSC (Valley of the Mastodon)
• Monkeys, Apes, and Simians (Synapsida)
• Chimpanzee ‘nests’ shed light on the origins of humanity (Earth Touch News)
• Modern Flores Island pygmies show no genetic link to extinct ‘hobbits’ (Link)

Methods and Musings:

• How do you pronounce “Parasaurolophus“? (Extinct)
• The End of Tetrapod Zoology, ver 3 (Tetrapod Zoology)
• This Mesozoic Month: July 2018 (LITC)
• Addressing the Mental Health Crisis among Doctoral Researchers, Part I (PLOS ECR Community)
• Addressing the Mental Health Crisis among Doctoral Researchers, Part II (PLOS ECR Community)
• Episode 40 – Madagascar (Common Descent)

Museums, Folks and Fieldwork:

• Another Utah trip, and Aquilops on display at Dinosaur Journey (SVPOW)
• Fossil Stoneflies in Burmese Amber named after the Rolling Stones (PeerJ Blog)
• Paleo-Interview with Travis Wellman (Paleo Society)

Art, Books, Culture, Fun:

• Review of the book Artiodactyls, four-winged dinosaurs, running worms … [Russian] (Alioramus altai)
• Book Review – Earth History and Palaeogeography (The Inquisitive Biologist)
• A Disarray of Palaeoart: Marc’s Review (LITC)

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