Fossil Friday Roundup: September 14, 2018

Featured Image: Reconstruction in sketch of Yizhousaurus in left lateral view (drawn by Xiao-Cong Guo), regions in red rim represent absent elements. From Zhang et al. (2018), CC-BY.

Papers (All Open Access):

• Stratigraphic signatures of mass extinctions: ecological and sedimentary determinants (Proc B)
• Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni (Papers in Palaeontology)
• The middle Miocene palynofloras of the Salihpaşalar lignite mine (Yatağan Basin, southwest Anatolia): environmental characterisation and comparison with palynofloras from adjacent basins (Palaobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments)
• Early Cretaceous angiosperm leaves from the Dakota Formation, Hoisington III locality, Kansas, USA (PalaeoE)
• The first report of Cryptocaryoxylon from the Neogene (Early Miocene) of Eurasia (Easter Mediterranean: Lesbos and Lemnos Islands, Greece) (Fossil Imprint)
• A reappraisal of the genus Tethyrhynchia Logan, 1994 (Rhynchonellida, Brachiopoda): a conflict between phylogenies obtained from morphological characters and molecular data (Zootaxa)
• Taxonomy and Palaeoecology of Continental Gastropoda (Mollusca) from the Late Pleistocene Mammoth-Bearing Site of Bullendorf from NE Austria (RIPS)
• Quantitative analysis of suture lines in Carboniferous ammonoids (Fossil Record)
  Halloween genes in panarthropods and the evolution of the early moulting pathway in Ecdysozoa (RSOS)
• Ras-dva small GTPases lost during evolution of amniotes regulate regeneration in anamniotes (SciRep)
• A new alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Luanchuan, Henan Province, central China (China Geology)
• A new sauropodiform dinosaur with a ‘sauropodan’ skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, China (Scientific Reports)
• The first photographs of a dinosaur excavation in Europe: Emile Savalle and the stegosaur from Octeville (Normandy, 1898) (Colligo)
• Pappocricetodontinae (Rodentia, Muridae) from the Paleogene of south-east Serbia (Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments)
• Austropediomys marshalli gen et sp. nov., a new Pediomyoidea (Mammalia, Metatheria) from the Paleogene of Brazil: Paleobiogeographic implications (Rev. Brasileira de Paleontologia)
• A Description of Two New Species of the Genus Rucervus (Cervidae, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene of Southeast Europe, with Comments on Hominin and South Asian Ruminants Dispersals (Quaternary)
• A close relative of the Amazon river dolphin in marine deposits: a new Iniidae from the late Miocene of Angola (PeerJ)
• Large species within carnivora are large carnivores (RSOS)
• Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe (PNAS)
• Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna (Science Advances)
• Tuberculosis in post-contact Native Americans of Brazil: Paleopathological and paleogenetic evidence from the Tenetehara-Guajajara (PLOS ONE)

PrePrints and PostPrints:

• New data on the palaeobiogeography of Early Jurassic marine reptiles: the Toarcian ichthyosaur fauna of the Vocontian Basin (SE France) (PaleorXiv)
• A basal thunnosaurian from Iraq reveals disparate phylogenetic origins for Cretaceous ichthyosaurs (PaleorXiv)
• Ichthyosaurs from the French Rhaetian indicate a severe turnover across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary (PaleorXiv)
• Simbirskiasaurus and Pervushovisaurus reassessed: implications for the taxonomy and cranial osteology of Cretaceous platypterygiine ichthyosaurs (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)
• 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress, December 1–15, 2018 (Link)
• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)

Events:

• National Fossil Day 2018: Events UPDATED 8/30/18 (PLOS Paleontology Community)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Yizhousaurus sunae (Equatorial Minnesota)
• How Sea Dragons Carved Up the Prehistoric Oceans (Laelaps)
• Second hump-nosed spike-thumbed dinosaur discovered in Mongolia (Earth Archives)
• The proximal caudals of Brachiosaurus altithorax, FMNH P25107 (SVPOW)
• Fossil Whale Bones Record Prehistoric Shark Bites (Laelaps)
• Episode 43 – The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI) (Common Descent)
• The Pig Family: Peccaries Are Not Pigs (Synapsida)
• Fossil Friday – camel tooth (Valley of the Mastodon)

Methods and Musings:

• Imposter syndrome revisited (SVPOW)

Museums, Folks and Fieldwork:

• Cam Muskelly, Citizen Scientist and Paleontology/Geology Educator (Time Scavengers)

Arts, Books, Culture, Fun:

• Book review — The Tectonic Plates are Moving! (The Inquisitive Biologist)

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