Featured Image: Skull of referred specimen of Aetosauroides scagliai(UFSM 11505), right lateral view. From Biacchi Brust et al (2018), CC-BY.
Papers (All Open Access):
- What affects power to estimate speciation rate shifts? (PeerJ)
- Young species of cupuladriid bryozoans occupied new Caribbean habitats faster than old species (Scientific Reports)
- A new genus of fungus weevils (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) in Rovno amber (Fossil Record)
- Description of a Cretaceous amber fossil putatively of the tribe Coprophilini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Oxytelinae) (ZooKeys)
- Diverse Cretaceous larvae reveal the evolutionary and behavioural history of antlions and lacewings (Nature Communications)
- The vertebrate middle and inner ear: A short overview (Journal of Morphology)
- First fossil record of Atherinella sp. (Pisces, Teleostei, Atherinopsidae) from the Lower Pliocene of Costa Rica, Central America (Revista Geológica de América Central)
- Where does diversity come from? Linking geographical patterns of morphological, genetic, and environmental variation in wall lizards (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
- Parahelicops, Pararhabdophis, paraphyly : phylogenetic relationships among certain Southeast Asian natricine snakes (Hebius). (American Museum novitates)
- Paleoneuroanatomy of the aetosaur Neoaetosauroides engaeus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its paleobiological implications among archosauriforms (PeerJ)
- Osteology of the first skull of Aetosauroides scagliai Casamiquela 1960 (Archosauria: Aetosauria) from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil (Hyperodapedon Assemblage Zone) and its phylogenetic importance (PLOS ONE)
- A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation of New Mexico (PeerJ)
- The distinctive theropod assemblage of the Ellisdale site of New Jersey and its implications for North American dinosaur ecology and evolution during the Cretaceous (Journal of Paleontology)
- An Intermediate Incubation Period and Primitive Brooding in a Theropod Dinosaur (Scientific Reports)
- A photo documentation of bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA (Geology of the Intermountain West)
- Two Early Cretaceous Fossils Document Transitional Stages in Alvarezsaurian Dinosaur Evolution (Current Biology)
- The First Discovery of the Easternmost Jehol Biota from Southeastern Jilin, China (Acta Geologica Sinica)
- Allqokirus australis (Sparassodonta, Metatheria) from the early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia) and the rise of the metatherian carnivorous radiation in South America (Geodiversitas)
- Morphology and evolution of sesamoid elements in bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) (American Museum novitates)
- Climate-driven ecological stability as a globally shared cause of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions: the Plaids and Stripes Hypothesis (Biological Reviews)
- Geomorphological evidence of large vertebrates interacting with the seafloor at abyssal depths in a region designated for deep-sea mining (RSOS)
- Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar’s aye-aye (Nature Communications)
- Manual restrictions on Palaeolithic technological behaviours (PeerJ)
PrePrints and PostPrints:
- Global cooling & the rise of modern grasslands: Revealing cause & effect of environmental change on insect diversification dynamics (bioRXiv)
- Crustaceans in cold seep ecosystems: fossil record, geographic distribution, taxonomic composition, and biology (PaleorXiv)
- Morphological evolution of the skull roof in extinct temnospondyl amphibians mirrors conservative ontogenetic patterns (PaleorXiv)
- A Reassessment of the Taxonomic Position of Mesosaurs Based on Two Data Matrices (bioRXiv)
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)
- 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress, December 1–15, 2018 (Link)
- North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)
Events:
- National Fossil Day 2018: Events, Part 1 (PLOS Paleontology Community)
News and Views:
Animals and Anatomy:
- Your Friends The Titanosaurs, part 3: Andesaurus, Antarctosaurus, and Argentinosaurus (Equatorial Minnesota)
- The Rise and Fall of the Shark-Toothed Dinosaurs (Laelaps)
- A very short history of dinosaurs (Letters from Gondwana)
- Rabbit v. Rabbit (Synapsida)
- Fossil Friday – mastodon skull (Valley of the Mastodon)
Methods and Musings:
- Conflicts didn’t kill me, but made me stronger (PLOS ECR Community)
- A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth (Link)
- Creating a High-Resolution Biostratigraphy (Time Scavengers)
- The state of the art in peer review (GTV)
Museums, Folks and Fieldwork:
- Acadia National Park Geology (Time Scavengers)
- Dinosaurs in the Wild (Raptormaniacs)
- Prehistoric Beast Visits The Last American Dinosaurs at the National Museum (PBW)
Arts, Books, Culture, Fun:
- Episode 28 – PAST TIME reviews Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom! (Past Time Paleo)
- Book Review — The Art of Naming (The Inquisitive Biologist)
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