Fossil Friday Roundup: January 25, 2019

Featured Image: First nearly complete specimen of the rare hupehsuchian Eretmorhipis carrolldongi (YAGM V 1401). From Cheng et al. (2018).

Papers (All Open Access):

• Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity (PNAS)
• The revolution of crossdating in marine palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology (Biology Letters)
• Burgess Shale fossils shed light on the agnostid problem (ProcB)
• Caught in the act: priapulid burrowers in early Cambrian substrates (ProcB)
• A large cockroach from the mesosaur-bearing Konservat-Lagerstätte (Mangrullo Formation), Late Paleozoic of Uruguay (PeerJ)
• Basal polyphagan beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar: biogeographic implications and long-term morphological stasis (ProcB)
• A journey on plate tectonics sheds light on European crayfish phylogeography (Ecology and Evolution)
• Age and pattern of the southern high-latitude continental end-Permian extinction constrained by multiproxy analysis (Nature Communications)
• Hagfish from the Cretaceous Tethys Sea and a reconciliation of the morphological–molecular conflict in early vertebrate phylogeny (PNAS)
• New sharks and other chondrichthyans from the latest Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of North America (Journal of Paleontology)
• Cabindachanos dartevellei gen. and sp. nov., a new chanid fish (Ostariophysi, Gonorynchiformes) from the marine Paleocene of Cabinda (Central Africa) (Geologica Belgica)
• Environment and evolutionary history shape phylogenetic turnover in European tetrapods (Nature Communications)
• Morphological evolution and modularity of the caecilian skull (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• The skull anatomy and cranial endocast of the pseudosuchid archosaur Prestosuchus chiniquensis from the Triassic of Brazil (APP)
• Early Triassic marine reptile representing the oldest record of unusually small eyes in reptiles indicating non-visual prey detection (Scientific Reports)
• Evolutionary structure and timing of major habitat shifts in Crocodylomorpha (Scientific Reports)
• Histological evidence of trauma in tusks of southern African dicynodonts (Palaeontologia africana)
• The oldest record of Lambeosaurinae in Europe: phylogenetic implications (Fossilia)
• Histological study of sauropod dinosaur bones from the historic Upper Jurassic Howe Quarry (Wyoming, USA): determination of an age range for every specimen (Fossilia)
• A turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of the United Kingdom (PeerJ)
• Digest: Evolution of shape and leverage of bird beaks reflects feeding ecology, but not as strongly as expected (Evolution)
• Biogeography of Korea’s top predator, the yellow-throated Marten: evolutionary history and population dynamics (BMC Evolutionary Biology)
• Evolutionary Tinkering of the Mandibular Canal Linked to Convergent Regression of Teeth in Placental Mammals (Current Biology)
• Shifting faunal baselines through the Quaternary revealed by cave fossils of eastern Australia (PeerJ)
• The Lowermost Tejo River Terrace at Foz do Enxarrique, Portugal: A Palaeoenvironmental Archive from c. 60–35 ka and Its Implications for the Last Neanderthals in Westernmost Iberia (Quaternary)
• A Window into Africa’s Past Hydroclimates: The SISAL_v1 Database Contribution (Quaternary)
• Hominin tracks in southern Africa: a review and an approach to identification (Paleontologica africana)
• The functional importance of human foot muscles for bipedal locomotion (PNAS)
• Combining legacy data with new drone and DGPS mapping to identify the provenance of Plio-Pleistocene fossils from Bolt’s Farm, Cradle of Humankind (South Africa) (PeerJ)
• Limits of long-term selection against Neandertal introgression (PNAS)
• Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a disturbed world: implications for the maintenance of ecological networks [version 1; referees: 2 approved (F1000 Research)

Preprints/PostPrints:

• How macroecology affects macroevolution: the interplay between extinction intensity and trait-dependent extinction in brachiopods (bioRXiv)

Community Events, Society Updates, and Resources:

 Meetings:

• DinoFest 2019, January 26–27, 2019, Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (Link)
• PaleoFest, March 2–3, 2019, Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, Illinois (Link)
• Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists, March 15–17, 2019, University of Oregon (Link)
• 11th Conference on Fossil Resources, Casper, Wyoming, May 30-June 2, 2019 (Link)
• North American Paleontological Convention June 23–27 2019 (Link)

News and Views:

Animals and Anatomy:

• Fossils discovered at B.C.’s Burgess Shale add branch to tree of life (Link)
• Revising echinoderm relationships based on new fossil interpretations (Time Scavengers)
• Idaho State University researchers help create skull of ancient scissor-toothed shark, Edestus (Link)
• Dating Old Crocs: What Fossil Chemistry Reveals About Earth History (Science Trends)
• Tiny-headed Triassic Reptile Hunted like a Platypus (Giant Science Lady)
• Pachyrhinosaurus: Prehistoric Beast of the Week (PBW)
• Your Friends The Titanosaurs, part 8: Bonitasaura, Borealosaurus, and Brasilotitan (Equatorial Minnesota)
• Did dinosaurs have a second brain to run their back ends? (SVPOW)
• Birds have balance organs in their butts. Why is no-one talking about this?! (SVPOW)
• The Raptormaniacs List of Extinct Cenozoic Birds (Raptormaniacs)
• What we know (and don’t know) about the origin of placental mammals, part II: A primer on Mesozoic eutherians, and the search for the earliest placentals (SYMPAN)
• Basilosaurus Munched Other Ancient Whales (Laelaps)
• Murderous Whales of the Eocene Oceans (Synapsida)
• How pygmy whales were affected by historical climate change (PLOS Paleo)
• Fossil Friday – fox squirrels and vampire’s disease (Valley of the Mastodon)

Methods and Musings:

• Outnumbered and Surrounded: Women Working in Male Dominated Research Fields (Link)
• (Somewhat late) roundup of 2018 (Archosaur Musings)
• Will citizen science take over? (GBIF Data Blog)

Featured Folks, Fieldwork, and Museums:

• Cincinnati fossils come home (Link)
• Paleontologist Mom (Field Secrets)
• Specimen of the week 374: Hypsilophodon foxii cast (UCL)
• Kevin Jiménez-Lara, Paleomammalogist and Paleobiogeographer (Time Scavengers)
• State of Science: How Paleontologists Are Finding Fossils in Surprising Places (Link)

Arts, Books, Culture, Fun:

• Book review – Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style (Second Edition) (The Inquisitive Biologist)

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